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February 26, 2025 | News
Labour MP champions Te Matatini’s growth and global reach
A Māori Labour MP takes pride in the mahi done to secure Te Matatini funding and bring it to the global stage for this year’s festival in Ngāmotu.
March 6, 2026
September 19, 2024 | News
Collaboration key to Whakaata Māori fiscal strategy
Whakaata Māori sees collaboration with local and international broadcasters and independent production companies as a way to dig itself out of a $10 million fiscal hole.
September 19, 2024 | News
Linear tv in the rearview says Te Māngai Pāho head
Te Māngai Pāho head Larry Parr has told the Māori Affairs select committee the Māori broadcast funding agency wants to stop funding linear television content.
September 19, 2024 | News
Māori television statute relic of past
Whakaata Māori chief executive Shane Taurima is calling for a change in the Māori television legislation.
July 24, 2024 | News
Select committee given sense of Ōrākau wairua
A Kiingitanga spokesperson says the battle site at Ōrākau will become a marker for generations to come.
July 23, 2024 | News
Call for LINZ to tag historic whenua
Labour Peeni Henare says there's an argument for land information to include tags if a property is of historic significance.
July 22, 2024 | News
Committee gets close look at Ōrākau
Members of the Māori affairs select committee were at Ōrākau this morning to see the site where 300 Māori held off 1500 British troops for three days in 1864 in the last battle of the Waikato War.
March 17, 2023 | News
Green MP endorses whanau reo plans
Green MP Teanau Tuiono has endorsed the approach taken by Te Matawai to Maori language regeneration.
March 17, 2023 | News
Aotearoa name push vital for identity
Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi says the party's push to make Aotearoa the official name of the country has a serious purpose.
March 16, 2023 | News
Te Mātāwai lacks putea for mission
Te Reo Māori revitalisation body Te Mātāwai has put its case to the Māori Affairs Select Committee for a large enough putea to do the job it's been set.
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