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Peter Calder: Keeping the hangi fires burning

If you had never heard the one about the Irishman, the German and the Sikh, Te Mahurehure Community Marae in Pt Chevalier on Sunday was the place to be.

Kiwis are better off and mostly happy

Statistics NZ's General Social Survey has been conducted every two years since 2008-09.

Maori Party's scathing letter to Abbott

The Maori Party coleaders have used Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott's visit to New Zealand to criticise his treatment of Aboriginal people.

Melbourne rocked by protests

A large protest opposing the closure of remote indigenous communities in Western Australia yesterday shut down streets in central Melbourne.

Pressure goes on Ngapuhi to settle

Government ministers have upped the pressure on Ngapuhi to get on with their settlement in the lead-up to Waitangi Day - and even the Governor-General got in on the act.

Morgan lays down Treaty challenge

Philanthropist and economist Gareth Morgan has set out two challenges to the Government at his first visit to Ratana Pa.

Morgan: Get radical on race issues

Pakeha nearly "exterminated" Maori and need to make good on the intent of the Treaty - including compulsory te reo in all primary schools, Gareth Morgan says.

Bad calls cut $66m to $16m

But iwi group will not take its founding trustees to court to recover lost "Treelords" settlement cash because of cost and "ongoing damage to the reputation of the trust".

Gareth Morgan: Co-operation needed to deliver rangatiratanga fairly

So far we've identified the achievements of the Treaty settlement and reconciliation process, and flagged that the process is now being pushed beyond the point of being useful.

Toby Manhire: At last, Devoy speaks out on race

What distinguishes this cartoon is its effort to get humour from a caricature of Maori and Pacific people as fat, greedy, selfish, alcoholic gamblers, writes Toby Manhire.

Waitangi Tribunal hearings in jeopardy over cost - claimant

First trade scholars graduate

Mai Chen: Enter the taniwha and the dragon

Fatty diet wreaks havoc in islands

Pacific health experts are calling for a quota on the amount of fatty food exported to the Pacific Islands, where heart disease, diabetes and obesity are the norm.

Pita Sharples: I stay because I have a job to do

My jovial slip of the tongue about remaining the co-leader "until I die" was not what I intended, writes Dr Pita Sharples.

David Round: Treaty 'rights' a trap in constitution plan

Search for Maori homeland

A Hawaiian linguistics professor believes eastern Polynesian ancestors, including Maori, began their colonisation of the Pacific from remote atolls near the Solomon Islands.

Firing up Maori economic engine

The departing head of the Maori Development Ministry says Maori business has transformed in the past decade and iwi are no longer considered a risk to the NZ economy.