However, unlike English, te reo Maori is a transparent language – the written form is completely phonetic with a 100% ...

Her connection to the country known by the Maori people as Aotearoa begins with her family – as well as the landscape. “My family comes from a line of chiefs who have traditional rights to the ...

New Zealand is deeply divided over the Treaty Principles Bill, which seeks to reinterpret the de facto constitution. Now the ...

But opponents say this "strikes at the core of the country's founding principles and dilutes the rights of Maori people." The proposal has caused backlash on both sides of Parliament after it was ...

For many indigenous peoples around the planet, every aspect of the natural world plays a part in their beliefs and culture. That can be a problem when the modern world, which is always looking for ...

Royal Australasian College of Physicians's Dr Matt Wheeler says a claim that bowel cancer risk is similar across all groups at the same age, isn't true. Wheeler says the peak age of diagnosis is ...

A churchgoer wearing a traditional Maori costume played her part in one of the 2025 World Day of Prayer services held in ...

Early Maori settlers ceded sovereignty to British invaders with the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, and European settlers flooded in. Today, 70 percent of Kiwis, a common term for the people of New ...