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Eruera Keepa​, from kaupapa Māori communications agency Creative Natives, said the group was disappointed its views and input had not been taken into account in the Government’s Covid-19 communications to date. The ad presented a hongi among two men as a casual greeting, and a haka by school boys as “all hype”, which lost the true meaning of the rituals, he said. Supplied/Stuff Image of a hongi by two men as portrayed in the Government's first television ad for the Covid-19 vaccination campaign. The ad has been criticised by Māori communications professionals as trivialising a sa...

ROBERT KITCHIN/STUFF PM Jacinda Ardern announced Auckland would go down one Covid-19 alert level on Sunday at 6am, while the rest of NZ would go back down to level 1. A year on from the first case in Aotearoa, the Government is still developing a Covid-19 communications plan specifically for Māori. It comes as the roll-out of Covid-19 communications to Māori has been criticised as mana-trampling, reactive and rushed by some of those tasked with doing the work. However, the Government says it has been meeting regularly with iwi and key Māori networks, and is launching a targeted vaccine c...

Local artist is taking a business track to break into the music industry Local musician takes a business track to try to break into the music biz By Jim Mendoza | February 12, 2021 at 4:59 PM HST - Updated February 12 at 4:59 PM HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Ashton Nicolas got hooked on making music when he was just a kid. It started with the ukulele. “My uncles and my cousins took me under their wing and taught me, and I learned from the songs off the radio and YouTube,” he said. The self-taught songwriter and singer just released his first single, a reggae-flavored tune called...