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'It's about getting all our iwi together ... to remind them to come home'
18 Jan 2019More than 100 people have paddled down the Whanganui River between marae, learning about the river and refreshing their connections to it.
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Why aren't more women on NZ music festival stages?
12 Jan 2019The gender imbalance in music festival line-ups persists this year, despite the noise in promoters' ears getting louder. Kirsten Johnstone asks why this is still an issue.
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Cliff Curtis calls for women, Māori leadership in NZ film industry
15 Nov 2018Top New Zealand actor Cliff Curtis has called for the film industry to put more women in charge.
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Inside the attempts to revive Ngāi Tahu dialect
28 Sep 2018For the last 20 years, Hana O'Regan has been part of a group looking to revive the Ngāi Tahu dialect and ensure its survival.
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Rangatahi's UN trip: 'The UN is a western-built mechanism'
3 Jul 2018A group representing rangatahi Māori have returned from their trip to a UN forum where they say the organisation's overt western framework was evident from their moment of arrival.
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Being an intelligent woman of colour is a curse - NZ-born Fijian lawyer
2 Jul 2018A Fijian lawyer who has worked in the industry for almost 20 years says every day she faces some form of racism.
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Supervising a teen party 101: Stay awake
18 Mar 2018There are clear and unavoidable responsibilities that come with being in charge of a group of teenagers. The Labour Party has failed dismally on that front, Finlay Macdonald writes.
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The year women set the fire alight
8 Mar 2018Often International Women's Day feels like a day of disillusionment. This year is different, Di White writes.
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Women kick off celebrations of 125 years of suffrage
7 Mar 2018Hundreds of New Zealand women clad in purple and white crammed into Government House's ballroom today to kick off celebrations marking 125 years of women's suffrage, writes Emile Donovan.
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From butt of the joke to kicking bullies' butts
9 Feb 2018First Person - Megan Whelan doesn't remember the first time she realised she was fat, but she knows how long it took to learn to be kind to herself.
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Dropping an anvil on sexism: It had to be Oprah
9 Jan 2018Opinion - Stories of sexual harassment and abuse too often become about one bad person doing isolated bad things, in a vacuum. At the Golden Globes Oprah stood up and said 'not this time', writes…
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New cannabis law a half-baked cure
27 Dec 2017Opinion - The government's medicinal cannabis legislation is a cruel gimmick that meets its manifesto commitments but does no more than that, writes former associate health minister Peter Dunne.
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Lawyers set 'achievable' gender balance target
5 Dec 2017Some of the country's largest law firms and their clients are committing to having women take the lead role on at least 30 percent of their major litigation cases.
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Proud, loud and unbowed
26 Nov 2017Analysis - The rise of Mate Ma'a Tonga and their exuberant supporters has been the defining element of the Rugby League World Cup. For Tongans, the team has been a flashpoint for cultural pride, RNZ…
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Data sovereignty: New global guidelines for indigenous health
12 Nov 2017A Waikato University professor has helped develop a global guideline for researchers using health data, saying such data has often been used by colonial states against indigenous groups in the past.
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Back to the future?
25 Oct 2017Opinion - Is the new Cabinet just more of the same? Take a closer look before deriding it, David Slack suggests.
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Detainees get short shrift from Australian media
25 Oct 2017Analysis - Facing deportation from Australia? Best hope your son's a footy star if you want a sympathetic run in the local press, Phil Pennington writes.
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Labour-NZ First govt: How did it get to this?
21 Oct 2017Opinion - The Labour-New Zealand First minority government may seem bizarre, but it's simply the next stage on our MMP journey, Claire Robinson writes.
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Pay equity deal hits rest homes: 'We just can't make it work'
2 Oct 2017Rest home providers claim that the knock-on effects from the aged care workers pay equity settlement could lead to job cuts, and closures - with smaller rest homes in smaller centres the hardest hit. Audio
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'Rain begins with a single drop': Saudi women celebrate end of driving ban
28 Sep 2017Some Saudi Arabian women are already taking to the roads, even though licences will not be issued for nine months. Audio
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Celebrations are great, but 'time for our women to be paid'
28 Sep 2017A victory event for the Black Ferns is being held in Auckland today, but former players say celebrations alone aren't enough. Audio
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Kiwi companies pledge to hire 'no qualification' staff
27 Sep 2017More than 100 companies are promising to hire more people who have skills but no formal qualifications. Audio
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Net-zero buildings: 'They are just pleasant places to be'
26 Sep 2017Energy efficient buildings are good for the environment and save money, but they can also help workers be more productive, the Green Building Council says. Audio
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A tenuous grasp on inequality
22 Sep 2017Opinion - There's an increasing push among voters to address inequality, but so far none of the parties show a full understanding of it, Max Rashbrooke writes.
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