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Remembering the New Zealand Wars

28 October 2025

Rā Maumahara, the National Day of Commemoration for the New Zealand Wars, is marked every year on 28 October. Historian Dr Rowan Light believes it's an important chance to acknowledge and learn these histories.
Doctoral study reveals refugee students at NZ universities feel excluded

8 September 2025

Universities in New Zealand need to do more to ensure students from refugee backgrounds feel they belong here, according to an education graduate's PhD thesis.
Human rights used to limit Māori governance - academic

26 August 2025

Human rights, meant to protect, are ironically being used to block Māori authority, says law expert Andrew Erueti.
Māori almost twice as likely to die after bowel cancer surgery

19 August 2025

Post-operative surgery complications not picked up quickly enough in Māori patients have led to higher death rates than in Pākehā.
Oceans Between Us – an unflinching examination of racism in NZ

8 July 2025

A new book, Oceans Between Us, features ten essays analysing racism across education, health, justice and society.
Pacific academics step closer to increasing Pacific success

19 March 2024

Award-winning Pacific academics say a US$75,000 Spencer Foundation Vision grant could increase the success of Pacific peoples in higher education.
Young law graduate fights for fair pay

19 December 2022

Law alumna Nina Santos is challenging the status quo and fighting for a more inclusive and equitable Aotearoa.
Graduates shine at MAPAS ceremony

14 December 2022

On 12 December, 66 Māori and Pacific students were presented with MAPAS completion certificates for their degrees.
Language: the most powerful tool for social justice

5 December 2022

Who's been hurt, what are their needs and whose obligations are they? Professor Mariana Souto-Manning, president of the Erikson Institute, Chicago asked her audience to consider questions of justice and belonging in the classroom during a recent talk at Epsom Campus.
The many talents of Graci Kim: diplomat, toy maker, children's author

1 November 2022

Bestselling children’s fantasy author Graci Kim is full of surprises. She talks to Janet McAllister.
Papaarangi Reid: 'Aotearoa is built on health inequities'

1 November 2022

Opinion: The state of Māori health is an outcome of deliberate policies to break down Māori people, lands, culture and relationships, writes Professor Papaarangi Reid.
Bernard Sama researching the many challenges asylum seekers face

31 October 2022

Cameroon-born PhD student Bernard Sama talks to Judy Wilford about how to treat people claiming refugee status. He knows: he has walked a mile in their shoes.

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