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Seeking out Maori culture in New Zealand
Her connection to the country known by the Maori people as Aotearoa begins with her family – as well as the landscape. “My family comes from a line of chiefs who have traditional rights to the ...
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Your say - Language and identity
But Maori is also an official language in Aotearoa (NZ). Maori people used to be forbidden to use this language in schools . Now however there has been a push by Maori to have it more widely used.
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Language is a ‘central element in being Maori’ – using structured literacy to teach te reo misses the point
However, unlike English, te reo Maori is a transparent language – the written form is completely phonetic with a 100% ...
New Zealand reckons with its own divisive culture war
New Zealand is deeply divided over the Treaty Principles Bill, which seeks to reinterpret the de facto constitution. Now the ...
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Soldier of Defense Intelligence Legion, who fell in battle, was honored according to New Zealand ritual in Kyiv
On March 11, in Kyiv, they said goodbye to Dominic Abelen, with the call sign Tolkien, from the International Legion of the Defense Intelligence of the ...
Brown rejects officials advice to lower bowel screening age
Health Minister Simeon Brown rejected advice from health officials to lower the bowel screening age to 58 for the general population and 56 for Maori and Pacific people. According to projections that ...
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Physicians are coming down hard on the Government's evidence being used to prop up their changes to bowel cancer funding
Royal Australasian College of Physicians's Dr Matt Wheeler says a claim that bowel cancer risk is similar across all groups at the same age, isn't true. Wheeler says the peak age of diagnosis is ...