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February 1, 2024
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Collectiveness at it most potent has been called asabiyya by macrohistorian and cliodynamicist Peter Turchin. At its least potent, collectiveness is a recipe for social division, top-heaviness, escalating inequality, and societal breakdown. The present ‘debates’ in Aotearoa New Zealand – ostensibly about Te Tiriti, the Treaty of Waitangi – represent a ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Collective versus Individual: Māori versus ‘Maoris’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/01/keith-rankin-analysis-collective-versus-individual-maori-versus-maoris/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Collective versus Individual: Māori versus ‘Maoris’">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2024
Opinion by Keith Rankin. Last week, at the end of the long summer shutdown of Auckland’s train services, messages came through from AT about a limited restart on 15 January, though there would be no trains between Waitematā and Newmarket. Waitematā? When I looked it up in Google maps the top entry was of course ... <a title="OPINION – Keith Rankin on Communication Studies: Keeping the Public in the Loop" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/22/opinion-keith-rankin-on-communication-studies-keeping-the-public-in-the-loop/" aria-label="Read more about OPINION – Keith Rankin on Communication Studies: Keeping the Public in the Loop">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2023
TE WIKI O TE RĒO MĀORI: By Aroha Awarau Last year Joelle Holland invested all of the money she had saved for a home deposit and put it into a baby product business called Hawaiiki Pēpi. The sole focus of Hawaiiki Pēpi is to teach Māori children to be proud of their culture and language. ... <a title="Baby product business to teach Māori children pride in culture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/15/baby-product-business-to-teach-maori-children-pride-in-culture/" aria-label="Read more about Baby product business to teach Māori children pride in culture">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2022
By Ashleigh McCaull, RNZ News Te Manu Korihi reporter On the 35th anniversary of te reo Māori becoming an official language, the Māori Language Commission is warning more work is needed to ensure its survival. In 1987, a bill introduced by Koro Wetere was passed after years of campaigning — including the Māori language petition, ... <a title="Celebrating 35 years of te reo Māori as an official language, but still a risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/02/celebrating-35-years-of-te-reo-maori-as-an-official-language-but-still-a-risk/" aria-label="Read more about Celebrating 35 years of te reo Māori as an official language, but still a risk">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2022
By Giles Dexter, RNZ News political reporter New Zealand’s Te Pāti Māori has handed over its petition — with 70,000 signatures — calling for the country to officially be named Aotearoa. It is on our passports, on our money, and in our national anthem. But Aotearoa is not our official name, yet. The petition was ... <a title="Petition to officially name country Aotearoa delivered to Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/03/petition-to-officially-name-country-aotearoa-delivered-to-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about Petition to officially name country Aotearoa delivered to Parliament">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Māori Language Commissioner Professor Rawinia Higgins Whether he knows it or probably not, the year Joe Bennett arrived in Aotearoa from England was a milestone year for te reo Māori. After years of petitions, protest marches and activism from New Zealanders of all ethnicities as well as a Waitangi Tribunal inquiry: te reo ... <a title="About all the ‘Māori nonsense’ – a response from NZ’s Māori Language Commissioner" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/28/about-all-the-maori-nonsense-a-response-from-nzs-maori-language-commissioner/" aria-label="Read more about About all the ‘Māori nonsense’ – a response from NZ’s Māori Language Commissioner">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The co-leader of New Zealand’s minority Māori Party has launched a blistering attack on white privilege and the opposition National Party which it accuses of “igniting racism” in the framing of a debate about radical political change. In a provocative introduction to her weekly column in The New Zealand Herald today, ... <a title="Māori Party calls for indigenous debate to address NZ racism, white privilege" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/29/maori-party-calls-for-indigenous-debate-to-address-nz-racism-white-privilege/" aria-label="Read more about Māori Party calls for indigenous debate to address NZ racism, white privilege">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Three years ago, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern campaigned on kindness and transformation. NZ ELECTIONS 2020 – 17 October As New Zealand heads to the voting booths this month, Te Ao host Moana Maniapoto on Māori Television sat down with the Leader of the Labour Party and asked her about ... <a title="Jacinda Ardern on health, Ihumātao, Matariki, housing and Māori issues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/07/jacinda-ardern-on-health-ihumatao-matariki-housing-and-maori-issues/" aria-label="Read more about Jacinda Ardern on health, Ihumātao, Matariki, housing and Māori issues">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2020
By Rachael Ka’ai-Mahuta, of Auckland University of Technology Earlier this year, I met an Aucklander whose teenage passion for K-pop sparked an interest in the Korean language and culture in general, and led to them learning Korean as a second language. Te Wiki o te Reo Māori It made me wonder what lessons could be ... <a title="Making te reo Māori cool: Language revival lessons from the Korean Wave" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/16/making-te-reo-maori-cool-language-revival-lessons-from-the-korean-wave/" aria-label="Read more about Making te reo Māori cool: Language revival lessons from the Korean Wave">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2019
Political Roundup: NZ’s changing race relations by Dr Bryce Edwards There has been a striking mood of positivity and optimism in the commentary about Waitangi Day, and race relations in general, this year. It’s as if we have turned a corner as a nation. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern epitomised this in her prayer yesterday in ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: NZ’s changing race relations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/07/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-nzs-changing-race-relations/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: NZ’s changing race relations">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2018
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