Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins says the decision to drop former ministers Kelvin Davis and Rino Tirikatene down the ranking was their own choice.

A Māori veteran of the South East Asia conflicts in the 1960s, says successive New Zealand governments continue to fail veterans of those conflicts - and he says they continue to die without adequate support or care.

The Kīngitanga has made peace with Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei over the latter’s status in central Auckland.

A full-size neon pink, crocheted wharenui, will go on display at Hamilton's Waikato Museum from this Friday - completing three years of dedicated mahi by a Māori husband-and-wife team.

Former Māori Party MP Hone Harawira, who drove the Māori Affairs Select Committee inquiry into tobacco control, says changes to the smokefree law will come at an unacceptable cost to Māori will suffer for the profits of tobacco company shareholders.

One of the authors of the controversial He Puapua report says the new Government is going to have to front up to the United Nations early next year and show its scorecard on human and Indigenouse rights, eliminating racism, and the status of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.