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June 5, 2024 | News
Te Kura shows options for school change
A veteran Māori educator says students need to be able to follow their passions - and that will require changes to the existing school system.
April 21, 2026
June 5, 2024 | News
Royal wave for winner Kaiwai
King's Service Medal recipient Katareina Kaiwai says the reaction on State Highway 35 to her King's Birthday honour has been good-natured ribbing.
June 4, 2024 | News
Fight for equity earns king’s medal
One of the many wāhine Māori recipients in of a King's Birthday honour feels it's an acknowledgement for the mahi she and her whānau have done for Māori health off the clock.
June 4, 2024 | Paakiwaha
Megan Tamati-Quennell | Curator, Arts Facilitator, and Arts Writer
Kings birthday honours – She has been made a companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Megan Tamati-Quennell has worked as a curator, arts facilitator, and arts writer and has held Curator roles at Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington and the Govett Brewster in New Plymouth
June 7, 2023 | News
Honour challenging for social activist
Photographer and social activist Qiane Matata-Sipu says she considered refusing her New Zealand Order of Merit honour for the arts, as a way of protesting colonisation.
June 7, 2023 | News
Prime award upgraded
Ngati Hine kaumatua Kevin Prime is not certain why he's received a second honour to go with the tohu he got back in 2016, for services to conservation and Māori.
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