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Dec 29, 2024 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Kelvin McDonald
This story was originally published on Friday, December 13, 2024, and is republished today as part of Te Ao Māori News' Ngā Hiranga o te tau 2024 series, highlighting an article from each month that caught your attention. Emerging tech expert Dr Karaitiana Taiuru (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Toa) is confident te ao Māori will recognise the opportunity presented by this week’s “huge leap” in quantum computing development.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Kelvin McDonald
This story was originally published on Saturday, October 5, 2024, and is republished today as part of Te Ao Māori News' Ngā Hiranga o te tau 2024 series, highlighting an article from each month that caught your attention. Controversy is brewing in Ngāti Porou rugby circles after the only iwi team in the Heartland Championship says it was told by rugby authorities its supporters are banned from joining in their pre-game haka, ahead of its clash with Wairarapa-Bush in Ruatoria today.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Kelvin McDonald
Māori experienced the highest rates of trauma injury hospitalisations in Te Manawa Taki health region - which stretches from Taranaki to Tairāwhiti - over the past decade, a new study in the NZ Medical Journal reveals.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Kelvin McDonald
Emerging tech expert Dr Karaitiana Taiuru (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Toa) is confident te ao Māori will recognise the opportunity presented by this week’s “huge leap” in quantum computing development. Quantum computing has the potential to solve otherwise unsolvable problems with lightning-fast speed, and earlier this week Google announced a major breakthrough.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Kelvin McDonald
Ngāti Pāoa’s health and social service, E Tipu e Rea, is hosting a submission-writing gathering for young parents and their whānau on the Treaty Principles Bill. The get-together in a “welcoming space” for young whānau is on Monday, December16 at E Tipu e Rea’s Panmure premises in Tāmaki Makaurau from 11.30am to 2.30pm.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Kelvin McDonald
Six years ago, Sharon Armstrong (Ngāti Kahungunu) published Organised Deception, the story of how she came to find herself in an Argentinian jail in 2011 as the result of an online romance scam. Vilified as a “drug mule” by media at the time, her book tells how she survived that experience and resurrected her life. Recently, Armstrong uploaded a digital version of the book to her website.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Kelvin McDonald
One of Aotearoa’s foremost innovators in Māori art and design, Professor Johnson Witehira (Tamahaki, Ngāi Tū-te-auru), is the new head of Massey University’s school of music and screen arts, Te Rewa o Puanga, in Wellington. Professor Witehira, whose appointment was announced this week, said he is “excited about the potential” of his new role and acknowledged the university’s legacy in “bringing te ao Māori to the fore”.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Kelvin McDonald
Aotearoa’s special flavour of reggae music is celebrated in a new song that traces the music’s history in New Zealand including its importance to Māori. Released ahead of schedule to coincide with the Hikoi mō te Tiriti, the music video for Aotearoa Reggaeis clocking up thousands of views each day - up from 18,000 to 27,000 in the space of just a few days this week - and has just dropped on streaming platforms.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Kelvin McDonald
Goldie's 1938 portrait of Wharekauri Tahuna. Photo / International Art CentreA celebrated portrait by Charles Frederick Goldie of Ngāti Manawa tohunga, Wharekauri Tahuna, will be offered for sale at auction in Auckland on Tuesday. It’s estimated the 1938 painting Thoughts of a Tohunga could fetch as much as $3.5 million. International Art Centre director and auctioneer Richard Thomson said the oil was one of the artist’s most exceptional works, considered a “Goldie masterpiece” by art experts.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Kelvin McDonald
A celebrated portrait by Charles Fredrick Goldie of Ngāti Manawa tohunga, Wharekauri Tahuna, will be offered for sale at auction in Auckland on Tuesday. It’s estimated the 1938 painting Thoughts of a Tohunga could fetch as much as $3.5 million. International Art Centre director Richard Thomson, who will conduct the auction, said the oil painting is one of the artist’s most exceptional works, considered a “Goldie masterpiece” by art experts.
