Despite pressure to meet international obligations and competing interests locally, the government maintains it will consult genuinely with Māori over plant rights.
Māori delegates at the Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho conference reacted with caution to the government’s announcement today that it plans to start public consultation on New Zealand’s plant variety rights law.
Whakatū marae welcomed close to 200 Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho delegates at a pōwhiri in Nelson yesterday afternoon, opening a conference that's an important 'wellness' check on Māori intellectual, cultural and property rights.
Māori Television is taking viewers back to an era of light entertainment with WHĀNAU FACTOR, a new family game show premiering on Friday, October 18 at 8.00pm.
Acclaimed historian, Dame Anne Salmond was announced New Zealander of the Year at an awards ceremony last night in Auckland.
The first ever Pacific musical is being staged at the Auckland Arts Festival, which kicks off next week. It showcases some of NZ's rising stars with Taupunakohe Tocker performing under the musical direction of Tama Waipara.