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By Will Trafford of Maori Television  Te Pāti Māori wants the government to cut the 15 per cent Goods and Services Tax (GST) from kai, to tackle the soarin

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 Hau-a-uru (Songs and Stories of Taranaki), says Tūmatauenga’s brother,  Tāne, the god of fore...

Labour vowed to make Matariki a public holiday at the 2020 election. The first celebration of the holiday will be 24 June next year, though the dates will shift in accordance with Maramataka, the Māori lunar calendar. “We wanted to bring in those who had the expertise in order to establish those first dates,” said Ardern. Holidays for the coming 30 years will soon be decided with the newly-established Matariki advisory group – though it is expected to always fall on either a Monday or Friday, between Queen’s Birthday in June and Labor Day in late October. Chair RangiÄ�...