Auckland Mayor Len Brown has backed down over the $3.4 million budget for the Maori Statutory Board.

The mainstream parties don't make their decisions based on what is fair, just or moral. They base it on ... politics.

The Auckland Council is reconsidering its decision to give its Maori Statutory Board a $3.4 million budget, after rushing it through under urgency. Many councillors who approved the budget have today come out in opposition.

The unelected Maori Statutory Board will cost Auckland ratepayers $3.4m a year to run after its budget was rushed through under urgency.

Rogue MP Hone Harawira says the Maori Party is not mainstream and should not ape the rules and regulations of other parties.

Pita Sharples has warned Maori voters not to let Hone Harawira derail the party and ruin the "last chance" of a strong Maori-based party in Parliament.

Research showing Maori may have reached New Zealand later than previously believed may have implications for the Waitangi Tribunal, a New Zealand historian says.

The daughter of an Outback stockman has been named Australia's first indigenous Rhodes Scholar.

In a way, the constitution is like a family bach which has been used for years and years.

The Maori King has sacked a top Tainui figure over a critical report she wrote about the tribe's finances.