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20 days ago
New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given record suspensions
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Parliament votes to enact punishment after hours of fraught debate including attitudes towards Māori culture
New Zealand legislators have voted to enact record parliamentary suspensions for three MPs …
33 days ago
Shimmering with an opal shine: New Zealand’s unique blue pearls face threat of warming seas
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
In New Zealand only a handful of farms produce pearls from abalone, known as pāua, but the molluscs need delicate conditions to survive
Roger Beattie was diving off the Chatham Islands, about 800km ea…
70 days ago
Fifty years on, New Zealand’s tribunal upholding Māori rights faces a turning point
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The Waitangi Tribunal has had a significant impact on Indigenous rights and policy but as it marks its 50th anniversary its role is being questioned
In the 1980s, New Zealand’s department of Māori aff…
76 days ago
‘Grubby’ treaty principles bill voted down in New Zealand parliament
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Bill which sought to radically reinterpret New Zealand’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British Crown fails by 11 votes to 112
It was the bill that launched 300,000 public submissions, s…
83 days ago
New Zealand’s controversial bill to reinterpret treaty with Māori should be scrapped, committee finds
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Justice committee said the majority of public submissions oppose the legislation, which seeks to reinterpret the country’s founding document
A parliamentary committee has recommended a bill that seek…
89 days ago
Running shoe brand Hoka accused of misappropriating Māori culture
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Intellectual property experts say company’s Māori name – which means ‘to fly’ – needs to be acknowledged and ‘respected’
Popular sportswear company Hoka has been accused of failing to acknowledge the …
2 months ago
‘It’s so politically loaded’: Marlon Williams on ‘finding the gall’ to write an album entirely in Māori
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Te Whare Tīwekaweka is being released at a tumultuous time for te reo and race relations in Aotearoa
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Marlon Williams recalls a survey he once read about how …
3 months ago
New Zealand soldier Dominic Abelen honoured with haka in Ukraine
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Row erupts in New Zealand parliament over use of Māori name Aotearoa
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Dispute emerges after deputy prime minister Winston Peters questioned why MPs used the name Aotearoa in debates
The speaker of New Zealand’s parliament has told lawmakers to stop complaining about the…