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December 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Toioho ki Āpiti graduate Rewiti Arapere (left) and graduate and Senior Lecturer Erena Arapere (right). Supplied/Massey University Toioho ki Āpiti – New Zealand’s only university based Māori Visual Arts programme celebrated its 30th anniversary this month at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University. Across those three decades Toioho ki Āpiti has ... <a title="New Zealand’s only Māori visual arts degree celebrates 30 years of arts education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/new-zealands-only-maori-visual-arts-degree-celebrates-30-years-of-arts-education/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s only Māori visual arts degree celebrates 30 years of arts education">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Kōkiri Marae Sexual & Reproductive Health Promoter/Educator Shelley Duffin (left). Supplied A Wellington Marae is adding period care products to its Christmas kai parcels this year as the cost-of-living crisis deepens forcing more people into period poverty. Kōkiri Marae in the Lower Hutt suburb of Seaview has worked with Dignity since ... <a title="Kōkiri Marae adds period care to Christmas kai parcels as costs bite" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/kokiri-marae-adds-period-care-to-christmas-kai-parcels-as-costs-bite/" aria-label="Read more about Kōkiri Marae adds period care to Christmas kai parcels as costs bite">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand An agreement has been reached on the long-standing Nelson Tenths case. 123RF Māori landowners at the top of the South Island will have more than 3000 hectares returned to them in a landmark agreement with the Crown. In the 1830s the Crown promised Māori in Te Tauihu that if they sold ... <a title="South Island Māori landowners to get more than 3000 hectares returned by Crown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/south-island-maori-landowners-to-get-more-than-3000-hectares-returned-by-crown/" aria-label="Read more about South Island Māori landowners to get more than 3000 hectares returned by Crown">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Dr Kim Ngawhika – Pouwhakahaere Te Kāhui Hauora o Te Tauihu IMPB. Supplied/Te Kāhui Hauora o Te Tauihu Iwi Māori Partnership Boards (IMPBs) are concerned their role in the health system will be reduced under the government’s Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Amendment Bill. The Health Select Committee released its final report ... <a title="Lack of partnership in health sector changes – Iwi Partnership Boards" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/15/lack-of-partnership-in-health-sector-changes-iwi-partnership-boards/" aria-label="Read more about Lack of partnership in health sector changes – Iwi Partnership Boards">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The Unutai e! Unutai e! exhibition was developed by Dunedin Public Art Gallery in collaboration with Ngāi Tahu leaders and photographer Anne Noble. Supplied An exhibition opening in Christchurch is offering an insight into the deteriorating state of freshwater across the Ngāi Tahu takiwā which has prompted the iwi to take ... <a title="Christchurch exhibition looks at decline in state of freshwater across Ngāi Tahu takiwā" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/13/christchurch-exhibition-looks-at-decline-in-state-of-freshwater-across-ngai-tahu-takiwa/" aria-label="Read more about Christchurch exhibition looks at decline in state of freshwater across Ngāi Tahu takiwā">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Health officials are concerned by the rate of smoking. (File photo) RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King For the first time in over a decade the decreasing trend of Māori smoking rates has stalled leaving health advocates devastated. The latest New Zealand Health Survey showed daily smoking among Māori adults 15 and over ... <a title="Māori smoking rates stall for the first time in over a decade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/11/maori-smoking-rates-stall-for-the-first-time-in-over-a-decade/" aria-label="Read more about Māori smoking rates stall for the first time in over a decade">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The tino rangatiratanga haki (flag) outside Parliament. RNZ / Emma Andrews A petition calling on the government to restore school boards’ legal duty to implement Te Tiriti o Waitangi will be presented to parliament on Monday. The ‘Protect Te Tiriti in Education’ petition, organised by the National Iwi Chairs Forum (NICF) ... <a title="Petition urging re-instatement of school Te Tiriti o Waitangi obligations heads to parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/05/petition-urging-re-instatement-of-school-te-tiriti-o-waitangi-obligations-heads-to-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about Petition urging re-instatement of school Te Tiriti o Waitangi obligations heads to parliament">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The tino rangatiratanga haki (flag) outside Parliament on the day of the Treaty Principles Bill introduction. RNZ / Emma Andrews The country’s largest education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, is backing a claim by Northland iwi and hapū for an urgent Waitangi Tribunal inquiry into the government’s decision to remove school ... <a title="Education union supports Northland iwi in fight over schools’ Treaty obligations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/education-union-supports-northland-iwi-in-fight-over-schools-treaty-obligations/" aria-label="Read more about Education union supports Northland iwi in fight over schools’ Treaty obligations">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The New Zealand Women’s R4 Rafting team from Rangitikei has made it to Malaysia to compete in the International Rafting Federation World Championships. Supplied Five rafting wahine have paddled their way to the top after shovelling poo to get there. The New Zealand Women’s R4 Rafting team from Rangitikei has made ... <a title="New Zealand Women’s Rafting team head to Malaysia to compete" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/new-zealand-womens-rafting-team-head-to-malaysia-to-compete/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand Women’s Rafting team head to Malaysia to compete">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Veteran Māori broadcaster Waihoroi Shortland. RNZ / Peter de Graaf Northland iwi Ngāti Hine and hapū Te Kapotai are calling for an urgent Waitangi Tribunal inquiry after the government removed school boards’ legal obligations to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The claimants say the amendments to the Education and ... <a title="Iwi file urgent Waitangi Tribunal inquiry over education Treaty changes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/iwi-file-urgent-waitangi-tribunal-inquiry-over-education-treaty-changes/" aria-label="Read more about Iwi file urgent Waitangi Tribunal inquiry over education Treaty changes">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A major three-year study has found Māori are being undercounted in prisons by around six percent, masking the true scale of incarceration and its impact on whānau. The kaupapa Māori research project, TIAKI, examined the experiences of whānau entering and leaving prisons, combining national administrative data with interviews led by researchers ... <a title="Kaupapa Māori study exposes gaps in prison data and support for Māori" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/kaupapa-maori-study-exposes-gaps-in-prison-data-and-support-for-maori/" aria-label="Read more about Kaupapa Māori study exposes gaps in prison data and support for Māori">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand’s first building code banned raupō homes in the cities. Alexander Turnbull Library, Mrs Scott Collection. For centuries, Māori built homes that were warm, dry, sustainable and centred on whānau. Homelessness, damp houses and overcrowding were not part of te ao Māori. Two researchers say the systems that displaced Māori ... <a title="Researchers link Māori housing inequities to 180 years of restrictive building laws" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/30/researchers-link-maori-housing-inequities-to-180-years-of-restrictive-building-laws/" aria-label="Read more about Researchers link Māori housing inequities to 180 years of restrictive building laws">Read more</a>
