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February 24, 2025 | News
Child poverty rates stagnant, advocacy group warns
Save Our Children says it's unacceptable that tamariki poverty rates haven't dropped in two years.
March 16, 2026
February 18, 2025 | Featured News
Gone!
The Chief Statistician of New Zealand has called it quits after the release of a damning report (“The Heron Report”) […]
November 15, 2024 | News
1 in 10 Kiwi kids in poverty trap
New Statistics NZ figures reveal nearly 1 in 10 Kiwi children are trapped in persistent child poverty.
October 3, 2024 | News
Māori boost in Census 2023
There were 887,493 Māori at the 2023 Census, according to figures released today.
October 3, 2024 | News
New tool to explore Aotearoa census data
Stats NZ will release the first of its Census 2023 data this morning, including population, dwelling and housing highlights.
August 24, 2023 | Te Reo News
Raukawa ki raro, Raraunga ki runga
Kua whai wāhi atu a Te Poari Matua o Ngāti Raukawa ki ōna ake tatauranga e purutia nei e Tatauranga […]
April 13, 2023 | News
Liquorice allsorts approach needed to Census
Statistics NZ Māori director Atawhai Tibble says the department is facing an uphill battle to get Māori to participate in the census.
March 15, 2023 | News
Census mop up gathers pace
Statistics New Zealand is still working out how to get the census in from some flood-affected areas of the East Coast not yet covered.
March 7, 2023 | Opinion: Martyn Bradbury
MSD are building debt coffins and creating debt slaves
The statistics are grim.
September 2, 2022 | News
Iwi scrutiny for Census 2023
The Associate Minister for Statistics, Meka Whaitiri, says there will be no repeat of the 2018 Census that left between 20 and 30 percent of Māori uncounted.
- Radio Waatea is Auckland's only Māori radio station that provides an extensive bi-lingual broadcast to its listeners. Based at Nga Whare Waatea marae in Mangere, it is located in the middle of the biggest Māori population in Aotearoa.
