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Grab some popcorn and hit the couch; The Health Media is starting 2021 with a Popcorn Panel looking at how a Māori Health Authority vested with commissioning power might work, and the potential impact on primary care’s frontline

Free re-purposed arts workshop for Whanganui young people 7 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 2 minutes to read All kinds of found objects are ingeniously displayed in the Sculpture Garden at the Whanganui Resource Recovery Centre. Photo / Supplied Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron It will be trash to treasure all over again in a free arts workshop at the Whanganui Resource Recovery Centre this month. Artist and teacher Esther Topfer is ...

Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art wows audiences at Auckland Art Gallery Fiona Pardington, Davis Kea Wings (above), 2015. Courtesy of the Artist and Starkwhite, Auckland. AUCKLAND .- In the largest exhibition ever presented by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art offers insights into the development of Māori art from the 1950s to the present day. The first major exhibition of its kind in nearly 20 years, Toi Tū Toi Ora is informed by a Māori wor...

GO NZ: New Zealands record-holding holidays - biggest, steepest, oldest, most extreme... 22 Dec, 2020 04:44 PM 5 minutes to read By: Sarah Pollok On the quest for greatness, Sarah Pollok has scoured the country for local record breakers and New Zealands strangest bragging rights When it comes to being the best, Kiwis can be a humble bunch. Not ones to brag or boast, we tend to keep our ultimate locations and unrivalled records pretty hush-hush. But if youre on the hunt for the tallest, oldest, ...

Tuesday, 22 December 2020, 6:00 am "When we started Climate Justice Taranaki 10 years ago, we were sitting at 390 parts per million of atmospheric CO2. Since then, countless permits and resource consents have been handed out by Taranaki councils and the Environmental Protection Authority to oil and gas companies, to drill, frack and contaminate our land, water and sea. Industrial agriculture has been allowed to expand by the continuous use of synthetic fertilisers, imported feeds, land convers...

Press Release – Climate Justice Taranaki “When we started Climate Justice Taranaki 10 years ago, we were sitting at 390 parts per million of atmospheric CO2. Since then, countless permits and resource consents have been handed out by Taranaki councils and the Environmental Protection … “When we started Climate Justice Taranaki 10 years ago, we were sitting at 390 parts per million of atmospheric CO2. Since then, countless permits and resource consents have been handed out by Taranaki c...

Penny Gaylor: New inner-city premises welcomed 13 Dec, 2020 07:57 PM 2 minutes to read By: Penny Gaylor Last week was an auspicious final council meeting for the year as it was our first council meeting in our new chambers at 100 Cuba St. Four years ago when I was first elected to Greater Wellington Regional Council, we had our first (and my only) council meeting in the chambers at the GWRC offices in Shed 39 at the Wellington Port. Soon after was the Kaikoura earthquake which resulted in a lot...

Something To Feel: Soul singer Teeks opens up on his success 14 Dec, 2020 01:28 AM 5 minutes to read Before beginning a career in music, Teeks taught Te Reo Māori at Unitec in Auckland. Photo / File Before beginning a career in music, Teeks taught Te Reo Māori at Unitec in Auckland. Photo / File RNZ Northland soul singer Teeks seems on the expressway to success. His 2017 debut EP The Grapefruit Skies was met with critical acclaim; this year Vogue named him one of the music industrys "most pro...

The mural was a good reconnection of people to te āo Māori in a safe space, Manawatu said. When people talk about kaitiaki guardians, they may think it was separate from today’s world but the mural helped bring them back into it, he said. The interactive mural on Esk St features a QR code people can scan to unlock videos made by the students. The mural was launched by Healthy Families Invercargill collaborated with He Pī Ka Rere network, a group of early childhood providers. Within t...

Source: University of Waikato It was fitting that, on a day of showers followed by sunshine, Jake Angus brought out the rainbow when they graduated from the University of Waikato on Thursday (10 December). Jake (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāpuhi and Tainui), who identifies as takatāpui/gender diverse, walked the stage at Te Kohinga Mārama Marae to graduate with a Bachelor of Teaching (Primary), resplendent in a rainbow zebra print suit topped off with their graduation gown and whānau...