Maori

New Zealand needs to do more to protect Maori women in particular from domestic violence, a new report says.

Up to $1 billion could be moved from specific projects for Maori, to a bulk fund aimed at broad goals such as improving education and health.

The difference between the Government and its Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples over Maori representation in Auckland faced intense scrutiny in Parliament today.

The Green Party is proposing a parallel Maori justice system which it says would help eliminate the impact of "systemic racial profiling" and reduce unjust imprisonment.

New Zealand have welcomed South African moves to change their rules to allow the New Zealand Maori side to play there.

An iwi group protesting an oil company's plans in Taranaki say the company has refused to talk to them while they block access to the site.

The Council of Trade Unions (CTU) has called on the Maori Party to drop its support for privately managed prisons.

Embattled Ngai Tahu chairman (kaiwhakahaere) Mark Solomon is refusing to comment on his future with the iwi.

Law researchers say an agreement between a northern Hawke's Bay hapu and a state science company provides a model for controlling the use of intellectual property arising when whole communities are genetically tested.

Former Labour Party cabinet minister Paul Swain has been appointed the Crown's lead negotiator in talks with Ngati Porou on the settlement of historical grievances, Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson said today.

Wanganui's district council voted today to keep the city's name `h-less'.

More New Zealanders believe the Treaty of Waitangi is New Zealand's founding document, but knowledge of the document is the lowest since 2002, according to a new poll.