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Maori moment gets global attention 29 Apr 2021 08:00 AM Photo: Te Taura Whiri i te reo Maori Twitter. More Related Stories Related Podcast The Māori Language Commission’s Māori moment promotion has made the finals of the global Reed Awards for grassroots advocacy and social campaigns. Te Taura Whiri chief executive, Ngahiwi Apanui, says the Māori Language Week event had one in five New Zealanders stopping to celebrate te reo Māori together. A survey taken at the end of last year found more than 8 in 10 people see te reo as something to be proud of and part of their identity as...

Primary care gaps boost asthma rate 19 Apr 2021 08:39 AM Photo: Pixabay. Related Podcast Māori children were hospitalised with asthma at twice the rate of non-Māori children, according to a new Auckland University. Liggins Institute Researcher Justin O’Sullivan says while overall hospitalisations and prescriptions attributable to asthma have declined, many Māori children and those living in areas of high deprivation are not receiving the sort of primary care that would prevent the condition. Asthma admission rates for children from families living in the most deprived areas wer...

Press Release – Asthma and Respiratory Foundation of New Zealand A study published today (16 April) in the New Zealand Medical Journal highlights clear inequities in the health outcomes of New Zealand children with asthma. The study, by the Liggins Institute at the University of Auckland, documents trends in the number and cost of hospital admissions and asthma prescriptions for children aged 0-14 from 2010-2019. It shows that Māori children were hospitalised with asthma at twice the rate of non-Māori children (7.2/1,000 versus 3.5/1,000), and a larger proportion of Māori children had an...

News from Wellington City Council The Wellington City Council has adopted four principles that will guide the design for modernising the Central Library building within the remediation plans. This includes extending the floor space and working with other organisations to offer people a broader range of services and innovative ways to engage with the collections. “Wellingtonians were very clear when we consulted last year that we need a highly resilient central library building. Strengthening gives us the opportunity to hugely improve the library’s relationship to Te Ngākau Civic Square a...

SIMON O'CONNOR/Stuff Use of The ‘Naki in McDonald’s Angus beef burger boxes has drawn complaints from te ao Māori advocates in Taranaki, who say the abbreviation is racist and offensive. Te ao Māori advocates have called on burger giant McDonald’s to immediately stop using packaging containing an offensive abbreviation for Taranaki. The company's Angus burger boxes contain a blurb about the beef it uses, and that it is made into patties in “The ‘Naki”. Use of the abbreviation is common in both business names and everyday language in Taranaki, despite it being well publicised t...