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Tauranga Moana iwi setting new benchmark with te ao Māori curriculum collaboration 15 Apr, 2021 06:00 PM 7 minutes to read Ken Ward, Reg Blake, Henk Popping, Vianney Douglas, Toni Heke-Ririnui and Arohanoa Mathews are part of the Te Tai Whanake ki Tauranga Moana Kaitiaki Group. Photo / Supplied Ken Ward, Reg Blake, Henk Popping, Vianney Douglas, Toni Heke-Ririnui and Arohanoa Mathews are part of the Te Tai Whanake ki Tauranga Moana Kaitiaki Group. Photo / Supplied Plans for a local te ao Māor...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, with Emergency Management Minister Kiritapu Allan at the Beehive. (file) Allan is 37 years old of Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāti Tūwharetoa and was promoted to Cabinet soon after the last election. On his way to the Labour caucus meeting on Tuesday, Associate Health Minister (Māori health) Peeni Hēnare sent his thoughts to Allan and her family. Allan, he said, was a vital member of the partys team. "Ka nui te aroha ki a ia, me tana whānau i tēnei wā. Heoi an...

Kaiako/Lecturer, Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau/Auckland University of Technology One of the fascinating things about being a new-ish university kaiako (I’ve been teaching at Auckland University of Technology for a year) is seeing how mātauranga Māori, or Māori knowledge, is being incorporated into various parts of its curriculum. This year, I am teaching on a new course in the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies, which houses programmes in art and design, communication stu...

Māori creation story for wall of Whanganui centre 17 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM 2 minutes to read Ruby Fleming and daughter Violet, 4, attach items to a new mural for the Whanganui Resource Recovery Centre fence. Photo / Bevan Conley Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron When Ruby Fleming designed a mural for the Whanganui Resource Recovery Centre she had to include Ruapehu - part of her heritage as well as Whanganuis. The mural show...

Twenty-eight Port of Tauranga workers have now been vaccinated against Covid-19.

Young Tauranga man selected in Tuia Mayoral Mentoring Programme 22 Feb, 2021 12:47 AM 3 minutes to read Western Bay mayor Garry Webber with Tuia Programme participant Anaru Palmer. Photo / Supplied Bay of Plenty Times Taurangas Anaru Palmer has been selected to be mentored by a mayor for a year in hopes of working towards his dream of being an international relations and indigenous rights ambassador. Palmer, 20, was selected as a participant in the 2021 Tuia Mayoral Mentoring Programme to work ...

Rangi and Papa, and these two mythical creators of the universe represent the sky-father and earth-mother in an eternal cosmic embrace. According to mythologist B. G. Biggs’ excellent 1966 book Maori Myths and Traditions , the great cosmic-couple generated an all-male brood who were “entrapped in the darkness between the sky and the Earth” until the fiercest of the children, Tūmatauenga, planned to kill his parents. Historian A. Smith’s 1993 compilation,  He Tuhituhinga Tai ...

Business digest: New partnership to develop platform for agritech research 14 Feb, 2021 07:00 PM 13 minutes to read Got business news? Email businessBOP@nzme.co.nz Photo / Getty Images Bay of Plenty Times A freshly inked scientific partnership is developing AI computing power and technology to meet demand from Bay of Plenty-based scientists for faster processing of complex research data. The initiative, a marriage between the needs of PlantTech Research Institute in Tauranga ...

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Stuff. Maōri academics are lonely, isolated, and struggling to be heard, with many finding their way back to Māori studies departments, which while important, mean other disciplines lack mātauranga (Māori knowledge). “They really had their hearts broken finding there’s very little place for them.” The book – co-edited by University of Auckland Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora and released on February 12 – is a timely message of hope for the future, Ruru says. “It was extreme...