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Dec 14, 2023 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Mana Wikaire-Lewis
NZ hip-hop icon King Kapisi has teamed up with Mastercard to help celebrate small businesses in Aotearoa that have reached the milestone of being in business for a decade. Stats NZ’s latest figures showed that among all businesses founded in the country a decade ago, fewer than one in three remain today. That number drops to a quarter for those in accommodation and food services and retail trade.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Mana Wikaire-Lewis
A new study has shown that despite decades of efforts to boost the number of Māori and Pasifika doctors, they remain underrepresented in the country’s medical schools. The number of Māori doctors in New Zealand has risen from 2.3% of doctors in 2000 to 4.7% in 2023 but still falls below the population’s 16.5% Māori representation. The percentage of Pasifika doctors is gradually increasing, currently at 2.2% of all doctors but still below the overall Pasifika population of 8.2%.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Mana Wikaire-Lewis
Former NRL player Adam Blair (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa) has been named the head coach of the Māori All-Stars ahead of the 2024 edition of the All-Stars matchup between the Māori and indigenous teams. NRL.com says Blair takes over from 2023 coach Ben Gardiner, who is unavailable due to work with the 2023 NRL Premiership winners, the Penrith Panthers. The 37-year-old former Kiwi has been in the Māori All-Stars as captain in 2019 and 2020.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Mana Wikaire-Lewis
International rugby league history has been made by the 2023 Golden Boot winners James Fisher-Harris, Georgia Hale and Jérémy Bourson. The win for Kiwis captain Fisher-Harris (Ngāpuhi) caps off a stellar 2023, winning his third straight NRL Premiership with the Penrith Panthers and taking skipper duties for the first time in the Kiwis jersey, which he helped lead his team to a Pacific Cup medal.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Mana Wikaire-Lewis
Whakaata Māori took home the award for best live event coverage at the 2023 edition of the New Zealand Television Awards last night for its live broadcast, ANZAC 2023. ANZAC Day has been a broadcast highlight since 2006, covering dawn services both around the motu and in Gallipoli and sharing stories of veterans and their whānau.
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Dec 3, 2023 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Mana Wikaire-Lewis
One NZ Warriors skipper Tohu Harris has extended his contract to the end of 2025. 2024 will see him retain captain duties for a third year, which will be his seventh overall in a ‘Wahs’ jersey. He was instrumental in leading the club to its first preliminary final in 12 years, and achieved two career milestones: his 200th NRL game and 100th Warriors game. On top of that, he achieved near-perfect attendance, playing 23 of 27 games, averaging 69 minutes of play time, 140 metres and 40 tackles a game.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Mana Wikaire-Lewis
Chief children’s commissioner Dr Claire Achmad says she hasn’t been consulted on the coalition government’s moves to remove section 7AA from the Oranga Tamariki Act yet, which ensures a commitment to Treaty of Waitangi obligations and prioritising the whakapapa of children in its care. The law was introduced to address the over-representation of Māori children in state care, where 68% of state-care children are Māori. It’s one of the latest moves made by the new National/Act/NZ First government.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Mana Wikaire-Lewis
Anthropologist Dame Anne Salmond and the Auckland University Press have released a collection of 40 years of research called Knowledge is a Blessing on Your Mind. The collection includes Hui: A Study of Māori Ceremonial Gatherings, Eruera: The Teachings of a Māori Elder, and more recently, writing about race and Te Tiriti. She also examined early encounters in works such as The Trial of the Cannibal Dog.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Mana Wikaire-Lewis
The newly elected kaiwhakahaere of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, Justin Tipa, is taking his new job “one step at a time”. Last week, he was elected to the role after Lisa Tumahai confirmed her departure after seven years as chair of the rūnanga. Tipa had represented Te Rūnanga o Moeraki for the past two years. Speaking to teaonews.co.nz, Tipa says that, although he’s absorbing the job as much as he can, he is humbled and ready for the mahi ahead.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
teaonews.co.nz | Mana Wikaire-Lewis
Kaihaka Kapa Haka has been giving some of the world’s biggest music stars an authentic Māori welcome to Aotearoa for years. This week was no exception when the rōpū greeted many R&B and hip-hop artists with a pōwhiri, and even gifted them with korowai.
