About 1500 people gathered in Pātea for a Waitangi Day festival packed with vibrant te reo Māori performances, food and community joy. The free music festival - Paepae in the Park - celebrates the ...

Some of the dignitaries and iwi leaders left Waitangi to go straight down to pay their respects this week and her name rang out on the paepae here many, many times. She's been lying at Te ...

Analysis - When Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka stood to speak on the paepae during Waitangi Day commemorations a rōpu of wāhine Māori arose from their seats and turned their backs. They stood ...

On the paepae, the first speaker for the hau kāinga opened by saying, it was not easy to speak on this day “because our hearts are weeping”. While paying respect to those past, he also acknowledged ...

Jackson hoped those who attended were clear with Seymour about how they felt about the Treaty Principles Bill – a feature of exchanges on the paepae during last year’s Waitangi Day. “I think that it’s ...