With the stars of Matariki to rise in June, Jeff Sinnott looks at their relevance to our grape and wine community.

Three Maori MPs face suspension from New Zealand's Parliament over performing a haka to protest the Treaty Principles Bill. The parliamentary privileges committee recommended suspensions for ...

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke derailed parliament in November when she ripped a copy of the proposed laws. Indigenous Maori lawmakers have decried a push to temporarily banish them from New Zealand's ...

A New Zealand parliamentary committee has recommended the unprecedented suspensions of three Maori politicians for performing a protest haka in the debating chamber last year. The haka is a ...

Indigenous Maori lawmakers have decried a push to temporarily banish them from New Zealand's parliament, after disrupting the reading of a contentious race relations bill with a protest haka.

The proposed law sought to redefine the terms of the nation’s founding treaty between Maori tribes and the British crown signed 180 years ago. The bill gained wide attention after a video of the ...

THE BUSH Theatre trustees have appointed Taio Lawson as the theatre’s new Artistic Director and Co-CEO. Lawson joins the company in Summer 2025 and will oversee the final season of plays ...

The speaker of New Zealand’s parliament has told lawmakers he will not consider further complaints about the use of the country’s Maori name, Aotearoa, in parliament after Foreign Minister ...

Since taking office last year, New Zealand’s right-wing coalition government has faced unprecedented protests over its Maori policies, prompting large gatherings of Maori leaders and sharp ...

This has not stopped opponents, including white New Zealanders and Maori New Zealanders, from warning about the bill's potential consequences, which they say are emblematic of a rightward shift in ...

New Zealand's indigenous Maori people have expressed their opposition to a parliamentary bill that could alter their fate. The longstanding conflict between the Maori, who had controlled their ...

The bill reportedly seeks to redefine the Treaty of Waitangi - an agreement between the British and many, but not all, Maori tribes in 1840 that covers issues including land and cultural rights.