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 ...

If New Zealand registers at all in the American consciousness, it is as an in­credibly beautiful landscape associated with cinematic hobbits and orcs. But the country also has a surprising religious ...

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 ...

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 ...

An umbrella group comprising at least 80 Maori tribes has sent an open letter to King Charles III demanding that he intervene in New Zealand politics and ensure the government honours its obligations ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...