In Spinster, her vivid novel pub lished in 1959, Sylvia Ashton-Warner told of a loving, slightly balmy school teacher who taught Maori children in back-country New Zealand. Herself a teacher for ...

“Maori and Pacific children suffered racial discrimination and disconnection from their families, language and culture. Blind children were denied access to books in Braille. Deaf children were ...

Lorraine Henry’s quiet clerk job at the Masterton police station gets complicated when two Maori children from the economically depressed small town are kidnapped in quick succession.

The school's hallway is lined with portraits of Maori children "She's a big part of New Zealand and she will have a big legacy," she added. Several of them talked about how some people were "mean ...

Significant prognostic features included cervical involvement, present in 25% of Maori and Pacific Island children, and in 9% of European children (P = .03); erosive changes, present in 22% of ...

Between 1950 and 2019, about 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults were subjected to physical and sexual abuse in state and church care, and a commission found Maori children were ...

Maori, catering for everybody ... The preschool was shuttered, the children gone. Down the valley, dump trucks whirred as they hauled silt from ruined fields.

Economists have proven it's cheaper to let Maori children die than spend money to provide equitable health treatment. Maori children have some of the worst health outcomes in the country.

An Independent Children's Monitor report shows tamariki and rangatahi Maori are over-represented - and being let down. They make up two-thirds of those in care - and more than three-quarters in youth ...

Maori say Queen Elizabeth's efforts don't mean ... at the school gates if you wanted to succeed," she says. "These children here get to be themselves. They get to be Māori and they get a chance ...