Did the Māori electorates decide the 2017 election?
…Waiariki. Things were supposed to be sewn up. But this is where tactical thinking can obscure the strategic. The kawenata won a good deal of “earned media”, but the agreement…
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Māori media: Inconvenient truths
chances for Māori organisations to help build a Māori media system with none of the ignorance and prejudices and clumsy behaviour that have given the mainstream media such an unpleasant…
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Equality on the battlefield — but not at home
…Brooking is a Maori”. Bishop Averill, who had welcomed the Pioneers in Auckland Domain, told Hunt he could not overrule the verger but issued a special licence for the couple…
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Māori in the First World War
…sense of cultural superiority was derived from the United Kingdom (where more than a quarter of the Pākehā population had been born) and it was also prevalent in the media….
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Māori media revamp: Where’s the focus on quality journalism?
A review of Māori media, called the Māori Media Sector Shift, was launched by the Minister of Māo ri Development, Nanaia Mahuta, last year. It offers an opportunity to analyse…
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‘How many brown faces are there in your reporting team?’
…an institutional racism that pervades the mainstream media. I really do.” There’s a lot to unpack there. Firstly, Willie has an ability to harangue people without automatically hurting their feelings….
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Who should call the shots on reo Māori priorities?
…Their enthusiasm was shared through the media with a wider public. And this started to make it “permissible” and almost “normal” for Māori people to speak Māori. At the same…
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Rawiri Wright: It’s cool to be Māori
…my first year at Kedgley Intermediate in South Auckland on the border of Papatoetoe and Māngere, with 25 predominantly Māori and Pacific Island students in my classroom. They were just…
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They’re our whānau: Māori perspectives of NZ’s justice system
…Māori are unfairly and inaccurately presented by New Zealand media to the public and that, too often, stories of Māori and the justice system perpetuate anti-Māori views. Journalists and media…
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Brown were in town. We were on a high. Hope was in the air.
…Māori media is preserving and promoting the Māori language. Of course, the media — and that’s not just the Māori media — should play an important role in revitalising te…
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Wena Harawira — a lifetime of achievement in Māori media
…media. Her career began with a brief apprenticeship at a Gisborne radio station as a teenager nearly 40 years ago — and it’s still flourishing. Here we have Dale finding…
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Maiki Sherman: Holding the powerful to account
Maiki Sherman is one of a relatively new breed of M ā ori journalists. The new generation has been coming into the media by way of k ō hanga reo…
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Ebony Duff: It’s my role to tell the Māori radio story
…of the media. It’s the beginning of the Māori media ecosystem, if you will. Proper funding for Māori radio can only have a positive flow-on effect for the rest of…
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Nevak Rogers: Windows into other worlds
Nevak Rogers, proudly Hula Haka. Our mainstream media organisations have, for generations, played an unsavoury part in helping keep many New Zealanders uninformed and prejudiced about Māori and Pasifika issues….
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Hone Harawira: I’m not for pushing Pākehā into the sea
…by going, I could garner more media attention on the Northern Territory Intervention Plan that Aboriginal people were opposed to. And, sure enough, I got heaps of media while I…
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The second migration: stories of urban Māori
…she has extensively studied Māori women in leadership and Māori entrepreneurship, and taught Māori media, co-operative education and Māori business. She has lived in the city since she was six…
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Stacey Morrison: Te reo growing pains — this is what change feels like
When there were cries of “Māori snowflakes” in the media, it seemed to me the writer was inadvertently confirming the genuine snowball effect that Te Reo Māori is achieving. This…
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Māori media: We’ll need to make tough calls
Mike Rehu A review of the Māori media, the “Māori Media Sector Shift”, launched by the Minister of Māori Development, Nanaia Mahuta, and led by Te Puni Kokiri, brings an…
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Guyon Espiner: I’d love a New Zealand where we all embrace te reo
…weren’t a lot, either. How well served have Māori been by a media that’s kept painting a skewed picture of the Māori world? Very poorly served. I think if you’ve…
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Māori media: Where are our Māori print journalists?
Morgan Godfery Nanaia Mahuta, as the Minister of Māori Development, has set in motion a review of the Māori media. The review, called “Māori Media Sector Shift”, is being led…
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Moana Maniapoto: Making Māori visible through our songs
…justice, media, film and so on — were doing the same. They still are. But the industry itself was a problem, wasn’t it? Yes. We’d call out the music industry…
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Racism and White Defensiveness in Aotearoa: A Pākehā Perspective
…comment: a comment that, regardless of intention, had the effect of maintaining a sense of superiority among a dominant group. Yet on social media and in the Mad Butcher’s own…
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It’s time for Māori to be heard on immigration policy
…a vision built on values. So we have a lot to contribute as Māori. The mainstream media doesn’t pay much attention to the need for that sort of discussion, does…
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Ruakere Hond: A language and a legacy
…rather than simply reacting to the sort of negativity and the hype that has pervaded the media, particularly in politics. Also, on the positive side, there is, I imagine, for…
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Rauru Kirikiri: Diplomacy and Māori convictions
…I was the press officer. In the media field, in my time there, there was an increasing interest in the Māori voice on radio and television. And one of our…
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Wepiha Te Kanawa: Steering kids away from crime
…My koro translated it into Māori. My parents were huge activists, which explains why I was given that name. They’re pro-Maori, tino rangatiratanga hard. We grew up going to every…
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Moana Maniapoto: Why I’m not a party girl
…And that’s an indictment of how enmeshed we are in the colonial machinery. In the aftermath of the election, there is plenty of bitterness all across social media. Huge divisions….
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Hēmi Dale: The reo is important to all of Aotearoa, not just Māori
…I started school. At Miller Road School, which later became Mountain View School. Then I was part of the first year of Arahanga Intermediate, which is now Te Kura Kaupapa…
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Vivien Sutherland Bridgwater: I always felt like I didn’t fit
…hasn’t really cottoned on to the influence the media has in shaping the Pākehã and Māori perceptions of Māori. Well, I think what the media does is critical. And, although…
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Meihana Durie: Education is a lifelong journey
…grasp of the Treaty. At times they’re so anti-Māori that I’ve thought the Human Rights Commission, the Race Relations Commissioner, should be stepping in. The face of the media in…
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