NZBusiness and Management

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Reaching ‘World Class’ New Zealand status requires an exceptional bio and outstanding leadership qualities. Rachel Taulelei, chief executive of the Maori-owned, Top 100 New Zealand food and beverage company Kono, fits the criteria impressively – whic

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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There is a Maori proverb that reads: ‘He waka eke noa’. The literal translation is ‘the canoe which we are all in without exception’ but the general spirit is ‘we’re all in this together’. It’s a saying about connection, about how no one can get thro

All About History

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Māori populations become more settled in specific areas as the abundance of resources dries up. As a result agriculture increases in importance. On 6 October 1769 Captain James Cook sights New Zealand from his ship. Two days later he lands and has an

Architecture NZ

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IN FEBRUARY, MY PARTNER and I shared a taxi from Wellington airport to the New Zealand Festival of Arts Talanoa Mau venue with a young artist from Northland, where they were both presenting. The conversation was riveting – Te Kaurinui Parata (Ngātiwa

Faces

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A group of people in long wooden canoes set sail from East Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean about 800 years ago. For days, they voyaged southwest. Strong currents and gusts of winds pounded them. Still, they pushed on. Finally, they reached a lush gre

Art New Zealand

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Something to Remember, an exhibition of work by Alexis Neal and Elke Finkenauer at Gus Fisher Gallery in 2018, took as its starting point the late Louise Bourgeois’ artist book Nothing to Remember. Published shortly before her passing, the book conte

Art New Zealand

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The nature of gatherings by definition is for a group of people to come together for a shared purpose. They can often be energising, inspiring and provide the perfect conditions for building meaningful connections and to exchange knowledge. This was

Art New Zealand

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You have to have stories or some kind of whakapapa relationship to make it [i.e. Māori art] work effectively and properly. Cliff WhitingHe hawhi Māori, he hawhi Pākehā kei au [ka katakata ia], engari he Māori katoa ōku mahi. Cliff Whiting, TVNZ Waka

New Zealand Listener

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As a professional chemist/molecular biologist, I find that I must comment on the latest “science-based” story on diet and health (“Diet busters”, March 7). Except for identical twins, no two people are the same. Each individual is the unique end-prod

Fashion Quarterly

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Embracing the grandeur of Auckland’s Town Hall, the profoundly personal Campbell Luke show featured a choir from Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Hoani Waititi Marae, and ended with a tableau of models on a 100-year-old whāriki (mat), a standing ovation, and

NZ Rugby World

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For a long time most professional players took pride in being as evasive off the field as they were on it. No one, be they the All Blacks captain or first year Mitre 10 Cup player, felt it was in the best interests of their career to offer something

Organic NZ

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Published by the Soil & Health Association of NZ Inc. Tēnā koutou e hoa mā. As I write this we are entering the last week of the election campaign. By chance the revised election day coincides with the Soil & Health strategy weekend and as part of th

All About History

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Descended from both Māori and Pākehā ancestry, Peter Buck was a well-respected doctor who saw a chance to do good for his people. Appointed the medical officer to the Māori in 1905, he soon moved into politics and spoke openly defending Māori rights.

The Makers

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“I define myself as a female of Pakeha ancestry who has married a Maori male and mothered two bi-cultural children, and thus by marriage have been integrated into an extended whanau that continuously and generously wraps me in their world.” So says D

Art New Zealand

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has been a hard an person to , position in the evolving history of New Zealand art. There are many reasons for this, as Damian Skinner shows in his fastidiously researched biography. Firstly, Schoon was a foreigner of Dutch descent, born in Java and

NZBusiness and Management

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Five years ago Mike and Toria Moka established Indigenous Growth which works to enable businesses to understand and implement Maori strategies. Their focus is “to conquer the poverty cycle by creating more of our everyday indigenous role models to ex

New Zealand Listener

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Occasionally a book appears that sparks questions and issues well beyond its central subject. Hirini Kaa’s authoritative history of the Māori Anglican Church, TE HĀHI MIHINARE (BWB, $49.99), is such a work. The social and political impact of that mos

Woman NZ

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Parenting is quite easy when you haven’t done it yet. Before I had children, I had many theories, now tried and tested and proven wrong, many naiveties that have been corrected by experience. Naivety can make us bold, without us even realising it, an

New Zealand Listener

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While the 2020 Aotearoa Music Awards is celebrating the past with its mass hall-of-fame induction, the nominations for this year’s Tuis suggest that despite recent upheavals, the present is sounding rather good. Among the best-album nods are outstand

Woman NZ

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during the darkest period of Oriini Kaipara’s life, she was visited by the spirit of her late nan and received a calling to something higher: to receive her moko kauae. The decision to have the traditional tattoo saw the broadcaster make headlines ar

Architecture NZ

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NZIA architect MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN Project team BULL O’SULLIVAN ARCHITECTURE: BAZ CHENG BUILDER AND CLIENT: ALISTAIR TOTO, BROWNTOWN BUILDERS MICHAEL THOMSON, LYNDA SIMMONS, FIONA SHORT AND ANTHONY HOETE From the moment one approaches Toto Whare, it i

Wilderness

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I’D LIKE TO TALK TRAUMA. The kind often seen trackside. Trauma, manifesting as bush maintenance and driven by the impulse to bend, break, and sacrifice something seemingly inanimate to create walking space. We could coin it ‘conservation trauma’, ste

New Zealand Listener

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The new version of Dame Claudia Orange’s hefty illustrated history of the Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi, has, she says, been “tweaked all the way through”. It covers the past two decades and has a trove of new photographs. She hopes it will

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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They may be the hosts of a new television series about New Zealand treasures, but when the Weekly visits the home of Stacey and Scotty Morrison, it’s clear that this is a couple who deeply cherish each other. Welcoming the team inside, Scotty has sco

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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An award-winning investigative journalist, TV presenter and radio broadcaster, Mihingarangi Forbes, 48, has produced, presented or reported for many of New Zealand’s leading current affairs shows, including Campbell Live, 20/20, Te Karere, Native Aff

NZ Marketing

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When and where did your TV career start? At TVNZ in November 2002 as presenter of Te Karere. How has the way New Zealanders embrace te reo Maori changed during your time at TVNZ? Luckily, many strong champions of te reo Māori worked hard to ensure th

Woman NZ

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nā Sido Broadcaster Jenny-May Clarkson is brave. I’ve always thought she showed strength of character on our screens, but the raw honesty she shares in this week’s issue about her inner struggle with her cultural identity as Māori, and her painful an

NZBusiness and Management

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Māori authority businesses’ surplus before tax was almost $720 million in 2017, a record level for figures going back to 2012, according to Stats NZ. The surplus was achieved on an annual income of $3.4 billion, almost unchanged on 2016. Māori author

New Zealand Listener

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The story the Hotere whānau tell of their parents’ meeting is like pages from a romance. There was a girl from Kaihu called Ana Maria Taniere, who was pretty and hardworking and kind and left school when she was 12. Her Ngāti Whātua family was strict

D-Photo

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When I walked into the darkened Kirk Gallery, I was surprised to find tears in my eyes. It was an immediate, and visceral, reaction. A simple effect: dimming the room’s lights to enable Ngahuia Harrison’s (Ngātiwai, Ngāpuhi) light-box photographs to