WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's government on Wednesday proposed that all children learn the history of Maori people and British colonisation in a set course that teachers must follow, ending a ...

A UK-New Zealand free trade deal agreed in October between Boris Johnson and Jacinda Ardern’s administrations contained an unusual provision alongside its pledges to ease market access for one another ...

PIONEERS: Dr Monty Soutar’s next book focuses on the Maori Pioneer Battalion in World War 1. Sir Peter Jackson had his Weta team colourise this image for the book’s cover. The original black and white ...

For more than 200 years, history books have attributed the discovery of Antarctica in the early 1800s to the global powers at the time. The first confirmed sighting of mainland Antarctica was by a ...

The Maori art scholar, Roger Neich, has recently identified this exceptional Maori sculpture as one of only two known examples of its type in the world. This figure, along with twelve other M?ori ...

The recent move to provide an extra staff member for Maori MPs who represent electorates in excess of 20,000 square kilometres has been a long time coming: 142 years to be exact. The issue actually ...

Architecture encompasses a lot of things. It’s art. It’s function. It’s culture. The Te Mirumiru Early Childhood Education Centre is an example of all three, with the added achievement of a low ...

Eboni Waitere (Ngati Kahungunu, Rangitane) has made history as the first Maori President of the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ), following her appointment at the ...

New Zealand’s Maori chiefs have anointed Nga Wai hono i te po as their new queen and eighth monarch, to succeed her father King Tuheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII who passed away at 69 after a heart ...

Maori history and British colonization would be taught to all children under the new rules, which supporters say reflects a renewed recognition of Maori history and culture WELLINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) ...