Act and National have committed to examine the Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme at Auckland University. Even ‘reviewing’ the programme is hurtful and upsetting.
Māori Economy
Posted inNewsroom
A young, browner future for NZ
Will the incoming government favour Pākehā Baby Boomers in its policies or will it look to the growing future generations of Māori and Pasifika?
Posted inInvestigations
From dying race to urban segregation
Aaron Smale continues a series on Māori demographics, showing how New Zealand’s history has been shaped by significant changes in the population
Posted inEnvironment
Coast goldminers crank out the currency as DoC mulls land status
Decades after his father began mining for gold on land near Lake Brunner on the West Coast, Riley Perkins continues to make a go of it.
Posted inMāori issues
Meka Whaitiri jumps to Te Pāti Māori – its first big-name election candidate
Meka Whaitiri signs up as candidate, and 'Nanaia knows what she can do'
Posted inComment
The political debate National and Labour can't agree on
Labour and National agree on which areas need more investment but there's debate on how Māori should benefit
Posted inPolitics
Co-governance work put on ice
Māori Development Minister put the brakes on co-governance work, while National is still unsure how it will meet its UN declaration commitments.
Posted inPodcast: The Detail
The stoush in Te Urewera that's about more than just huts
The removal of back country huts has brought tensions to the surface
Posted inBusiness
The schoolgirl who made 27,000 poi
Georgia Latu began making Māori poi aged 12; four years later she has a RWC supply contract
Posted inGovernment
Moves to put people before process in reforms
A new Deloitte report highlights how governments can do a better job of engaging the community in reforms like Three Waters.
Posted inEconomy
Māori businesses: Surviving the fallout from Covid-19
Part 5 of our video series on the Māori economy looks at how Māori businesses came through the first lockdowns and waves of the pandemic
Posted inEconomy
Māori values giving Māori businesses an edge
Part four of Newsroom’s six part video series looking at the Māori economy examines how the values of global consumers are starting to align with long established and practised Māori values.
