Te Karere brings you key events and stories of interest to Māori, as well as bringing a Māori perspective to the day's news and current affairs.
Ngāti Whakatere in Foxton is opposing the Horowhenua District Council's decision to relocate a war memorial a few metres claiming it will desecrate the site. The iwi say the site is an urupā, and they haven't been consulted about the move, but as Eruera Rerekura reports, the council says it's spoken to all stakeholders including iwi.
A group on young Māori and Pacific trade trainees are preparing to test their skills out in a country that's still trying to repair itself. The island nation of Fiji was devastated by Cyclone Winston in February this year, and a group of New Zealanders is offering aid once again.
Kids as young as nine and are becoming addicted to drugs, alcohol and cigarettes and are committing crimes to fuel their addictions. That's the startling revelation principals from Rotorua who also added that students were turning up to school with these illegal substances.
Three games into preseason, three straight losses, three big injury concerns and less than three weeks before the NBL tips off - one would think the alarm bells would be ringing at the Breakers headquarters, but there’s at least one silver lining, and his name is Jordan Ngatai.
Te Wharekura o Hoani Waititi Marae hasn’t had a speaker represent their kura in the Pei Te Hurinui Jones section for over 15 years. Te Okiwa McLean spoke to Tuake Pohatu-Ryder who faced a huge challenge leading into the comp.
The Green Party is calling on the Government to back its private member’s bill to protect the remaining five percent of Māori land that remains in Māori ownership. MP Catherine Delahunty says the Government has a responsibility under Te Tiriti o Waitangi to protect what's left for future generations.
A hīkoi against the Waitara Lands Bill mobilised in the small Taranaki town this morning. The bill proposes to allow residential leaseholders the option of free-holding their properties, with sale proceeds to be reinvested into the township, but Te Atiawa hapū members say the land, confiscated after the Battle of Pekapeka, should go back to iwi.
NZ First is copping flak for allegedly blocking five Treaty settlements from being enacted this Friday. Hundreds of iwi members have made travel and accommodation plans to witness the historic occasion at Parliament but those arrangements have been rendered pointless for what critics are describing as a cheap political stunt. However, as political reporter Eruera Rerekura reports, NZ First is sticking to its guns and is blaming the Government for the turn in events.
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