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Māori Business Models can help Rebuild the Economy

John Boynton
May 3, 2020

A Māori business leader says Māori business models are showing the resilience needed to help rebuild the economy following the Covid-19 pandemic. Te Taumata chairman Chris Karamea Insley is also the chief executive of Te Arawa Fisheries and sits on a number of businesses boards across the country.  So far, the government has spent more than…

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The story of the Native Wireless Operators

Willie Cuthers
April 26, 2020

Pacific and Māori people are lazy, childlike, heathens and in need of saving. These were depictions of the ‘earliest’ writers and researchers, narratives which have been adopted as…

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Dear Aotearoa, from Mum

Boyd Broughton
April 16, 2020

Ko Papatūānuku tēnei, it’s yo Mama here. I’ve just been hanging about, letting nature do nature, rivers be rivers, skies be skies and after three weeks of Aoteroa…

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Mourners walking to urupā

Tuna, Tapenade but no Tangihanga

In a world with no Covid-19, the roads to Taranaki would be full of mourners this Easter weekend. Iwi leaders, language exponents…

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Former Māori TV Boss Salutes Huirangi

Soon after arriving at Māori Television as its new CEO in December 2004, I was confronted with a daunting array of reo…

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Māori Tourism Brought to its Knees

Just six months ago, Nadine and Karl Toe Toe were on top of the world. They cleaned up at the 2019 New…

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What To Do With The Kids?

Teachers are amazing but I don’t want to be one. And especially not to my own children. But in these exceptional Covid-19…

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