Actor Miriama McDowell pauses career to learn te reo Māori
Playing a prominent Māori leader on screen has prompted successful Kiwi actor Miriama McDowell to turn her back on her career in favour of learning te reo Māori.
New Zealand lawmakers told to stop complaining about use of the country's Māori name in Parliament
The speaker of New Zealand’s parliament has told lawmakers that he will not consider further complaints about the use of the ...
Te reo Māori Shrek features Hastings' Jeremy Macleod as Lord Farquaad
A classic film, now told in te reo Māori. Shrek returns to the big screen, with a Hawke's Bay voice bringing Lord Farquaad to ...
Shrek te reo Māori version: Hastings man playing Lord Farquaad as classic film gets a dose of Hawke’s Bay humour
Among the voices bringing the te reo Māori adaptation of Shrek to life is Hastings-based Jeremy Tātere MacLeod, who is taking ...
New Zealand’s foreign minister berates Mexico-born MP for use of nation’s Maori name
Winston Peters, who is Maori, objected to Ricardo Menendez March calling New Zealand by its Maori name, ‘Aotearoa’, in ...
Aotearoa or New Zealand, what’s the official name of New Zealand?
The conflict over Aotearoa, a word increasingly prominent in New Zealand life, arose last month when one lawmaker objected to ...
Mākete REO - Te Reo Māori Only Market In Lyttelton
In a first for Ōtautahi, Mākete REO, a te reo Māori speaking market is being held in Lyttelton on Sunday March 16. Organised by Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko i te Ora ki Rāpaki, the Rāpaki branch of the ...
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Why New Zealand should keep the Maori language te reo alive
New Zealand’s government plans to have 1 million Kiwis speaking basic te reo – the language of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori population – by 2040. There are also calls to make the ...
Confusion Over Invercargill’s Te Reo Māori Street Name Rules
Christie said there was no approved list of te reo Māori names meaning developers had to “come up with them” themselves. In ...
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New Zealand lawmakers told to stop complaining about use of the country's Māori name in Parliament
The composite word means “land of the long white cloud" in te reo Māori, the Māori language. Winston Peters — who is deputy prime minister, foreign minister and leader of the populist party ...