The PM says the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous people that NZ signed up to overnight will have no practical effect, but Rodney Hide disagrees.

National has agreed to support the contentious UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Inuit actor, artist and teacher Natar Ungalaaq tells Peter Calder about storytelling and cultural isolation.

We're going nuts for Boy. Coming up to its third week at the top of the local box office, it's a runaway hit.

Should the NZRU apologise to Maori for excluding them from tours to South Africa from 1928 to 1960? Chris Rattue says yes, others say no.

Explosive language around the foreshore and seabed issue should be avoided if there is to be a lasting solution to the problem, Attorney General Chris Finlayson says.

National's foreshore and seabed proposal goes a lot further than Labour's law ever did, writes Audrey Young.

There were years when, as both authors and as publishers, A.H. and A.W. Reed were the main source of Maori myth and legend for New Zealand readers.

Maori told the parliamentary tobacco inquiry today that their marae were being undermined by tobacco smoking and associated early death.