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Māori-owned farm holding returns to profit as new governors join board

https://www.newsbeep.com/nz/185992/

One of the country’s largest farming operations has returned to profit with a $9.7 million after-tax surplus, reversing…
Māori-owned farm holding returns to profit as new governors join board - New Zealand News Beep
One of the country’s largest farming operations has returned to profit with a $9.7 million after-tax surplus, reversing two consecutive loss-making years.
www.newsbeep.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:45 AM
europesays.bsky.social
Bill set to return historic Māori site in Northland to Ngāpuhi

https://www.europesays.com/2636466/

A bill returning one of New Zealand’s most historic sites to Māori is due to be passed by…
Bill set to return historic Māori site in Northland to Ngāpuhi - EUROPE SAYS
A bill returning one of New Zealand's most historic sites to Māori is due to be passed by Parliament on Wednesday, ending a 20-year quest by Northland iwi
www.europesays.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:45 AM
teaonews.bsky.social
Iwi Māori Partnership Boards (IMPBs) are concerned their role in the health system will be reduced under the government’s Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Amendment Bill.
Lack of partnership in health sector changes - Iwi Partnership Boards
Iwi Māori Partnership Boards (IMPBs) are concerned their role in the health system will be reduced under the government’s Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Amendment Bill.
www.teaonews.co.nz
December 16, 2025 at 5:33 AM
andrewjull.bsky.social
How is this case proceeding when Batchelor's own evidence demonstrates the truth of the supposed defamatory statements?
Under further questioning from Salmon, Batchelor said he was not a racist and disagreed with Nazism and right-wing extremism. He repeatedly stated that he believed Māori had fundamental character flaws. “It’s the lack of character inside Māori that I believe is the issue,” he said. “If Māori don’t address the issue of character, then the culture and the language might as well die a natural death.” He told the court that he believed Māori were not indigenous to New Zealand and that a race of fair-skinned, ginger-haired people had settled the land before Māori arrived.
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
andrewjull.bsky.social
1. Billionaires are such appalling people
2. Julian Batchelor is a racist
3. Based on the excerpt below I do not understand how this case is continuing.

thespinoff.co.nz/media/16-12-...
Under further questioning from Salmon, Batchelor said he was not a racist and disagreed with Nazism and right-wing extremism. He repeatedly stated that he believed Māori had fundamental character flaws. “It’s the lack of character inside Māori that I believe is the issue,” he said. “If Māori don’t address the issue of character, then the culture and the language might as well die a natural death.” He told the court that he believed Māori were not indigenous to New Zealand and that a race of fair-skinned, ginger-haired people had settled the land before Māori arrived.
December 16, 2025 at 4:47 AM
rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social
Children honor their mother with a haka as she receives her moko kauae,
a sacred mark of whakapapa and mana of the Māori tradition.
December 16, 2025 at 4:47 AM
rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy
Children honor their mother with a haka as she receives her moko kauae, a sacred mark of whakapapa and mana of the Māori tradition.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/2000785456406135080
December 16, 2025 at 4:35 AM
hawaiinewsnow.com
Kamehameha Schools Kapālama students met with their young Māori counterparts during a recent trip to New Zealand.

Read more about the cultural exchanges they shared
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/12/15/kamehameha-students-connect-with-maori-schools-cultural-exchange/
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December 16, 2025 at 4:30 AM
memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social
Was my son's graduation today from primary school.

Lots of emotion as last day for at that school as they move to intermediate 2026.

Again great singing Māori & English great haka from kids.

Kids playing music well for singers.
So much mana for Aotearoa & each other.

Middle of Mitchell zone 🇳🇿 🤷‍♂️
memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️ @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social · Mar 19
A School gala last week - Mark Mitchell territory so. Opening of the Gala was with Haka and song.
Kids/Parents singing along encouraging or laughing at out of step performers. But all smiling laughing enjoying.
I stood in the crowd & could not reconcile that so many here voted for what we have now.
memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️ @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social · Mar 19
#kikorangi #NZpol Has entered the chat.
Who'd like to give a succinct rundown of how we ended up with Winston and the Womble blobs in charge - I'll just get all sweary and incoherent once I get going
December 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
bridferchglyn.bsky.social
Given the Scottish, Irish & Welsh lineages of a lot of pākeha in New Zealand, the current government should really be less surprised by the groundswell of pākeha support for māori sovereignty. Not all “white” people share one history (or one skin colour, for that matter).
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
bridferchglyn.bsky.social
and STILL tell them not to teach their kids their own language: They and their descendants are gonna end up speaking Cymraeg, learning Te Reo, empathising with Māori and supporting indigenous sovereignty 🤷🏻‍♀️ I don’t make the rules.
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
nz-nb.bsky.social
Bill set to return historic Māori site in Northland to Ngāpuhi

https://www.newsbeep.com/nz/185790/

A bill returning one of New Zealand’s most historic sites to Māori is due to be passed by…
Bill set to return historic Māori site in Northland to Ngāpuhi - New Zealand News Beep
A bill returning one of New Zealand's most historic sites to Māori is due to be passed by Parliament on Wednesday, ending a 20-year quest by Northland iwi
www.newsbeep.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
sachadylan.bsky.social
Look who is funding an anti-Māori activist’s court case against accountability.
@joelmacmanus.bsky.social
Billionaire NZME director Jim Grenon funding defamation lawsuit against TVNZ, court told
Jim Grenon suggested to controversial evangelist Julian Batchelor that he should sue TVNZ, according to evidence given in court.
thespinoff.co.nz
December 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
fromthemorgue.bsky.social
Schools and school boards can affirm their commitment all they like, it will not give them any ability to tell an aggressive Act-voting parent to go touch grass.

Accommodations for Māori students are going to be the ripest targets but it won’t stop there. 3/
December 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
alans-world.bsky.social
Deliberately vague so he can't get pinned down and can then lash out at critics with "I didn't say immigrants specifically, SHOW ME WHERE I SAID THAT" when cornered.

An infuriatingly reliable RW derailing technique (poli's like Seymour make significant use of it ofc when clearly attacking Māori).
December 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
lathyrusodoratus.bsky.social
I wish he wasn't so young! Are we going to have years of this ideological villain trying to stir up division and hatred, just when I can see a wonderful renaissance in Māori, and a way forward for us where we learn from their culture, and incorporate it into a new vision of Aotearoa.
December 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
benakl.bsky.social
Agree

Cities swing in behind our Green Regenerative Farmers which are growing and we get a symbiotic relationship between the two of the three power houses of Aotearoa

Of course THE power house being the Maori Economy as they pen it
December 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
siobhanleachman.bsky.social
Just had the most amazing tour at Te Papa with Isaac Te Awa, Curator Mātauranga Māori. I was with my Aunt who is a textile fanatic and we both were wowed by the weaving.
Cloak made in the 1890s Back side of a cloak showing intricate weaving Kiwi and Kākāpō feathers Kete weaving
December 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
nzchinesegenealogy.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy
Record ID
AWNS-1925XMAS-00-01
Collection Name
Auckland Weekly News
Title
Auckland Weekly News Christmas Number, 1925, cover
Photographer
Auckland Weekly News
Date of Image
1925-10-19

Description
A Māori woman carrying a baby on her back wrapped in a cloak […]

[Original post on mastodon.nz]
December 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
altnamackin.bsky.social
How was he top-polling candidate? He did the actual door knocking mahi, and ppl remembered him. But when he came to my door, he was angling for me to say something derogatory about Council / Māori wards. He collected angry anecdotes and then spouted them back angrily at angry audiences.
December 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
dollyeldritch.bsky.social
apologies, with alt text
Under further questioning from Salmon, Batchelor said he was not a racist and disagreed with Nazism and right-wing extremism. He repeatedly stated that he believed Māori had fundamental character flaws. “It’s the lack of character inside Māori that I believe is the issue,” he said. “If Māori don’t address the issue of character, then the culture and the language might as well die a natural death.” He told the court that he believed Māori were not indigenous to New Zealand and that a race of fair-skinned, ginger-haired people had settled the land before Māori arrived.
December 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
teaonews.bsky.social
More than 40 pēpi die each year from SUDI, with Māori babies five times more affected. A new whānau-centred safe sleep framework, grounded in mātauranga Māori, has been developed.
Whānau-led safe sleep framework aims to reduce SUDI deaths in Aotearoa
More than 40 pēpi die each year from SUDI, with Māori babies five times more affected. A new whānau-centred safe sleep framework, grounded in mātauranga Māori, has been developed.
www.teaonews.co.nz
December 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
acgeddis.bsky.social
It is very, very, very important to note that Julian Batchelor is neither racist nor prone to seeing fair-skinned, ginger-haired people where none exist ...
Under further questioning from Salmon, Batchelor said he was not a racist and disagreed with Nazism and right-wing extremism. He repeatedly stated that he believed Māori had fundamental character flaws. “It’s the lack of character inside Māori that I believe is the issue,” he said. “If Māori don’t address the issue of character, then the culture and the language might as well die a natural death.” He told the court that he believed Māori were not indigenous to New Zealand and that a race of fair-skinned, ginger-haired people had settled the land before Māori arrived.
December 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social
First law, passed under urgency, is to change the NZ national anthem to 'I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man' by Prince, to be performed in Te Reo Māori and NZSL only
December 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
tewhareturoa.bsky.social
More about the conference: tinyurl.com/d6ahp99u

Georgina's book on Māori Philosophy: tinyurl.com/mr7zdmn5
UPDATE 5 (28 Nov): ANZAP Conference 2025: 30 November-3 December, Victoria University of Wellington
UPDATE 28 Nov: The FINAL schedule is now available. Please see it here. The 2025 Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Philosophers’ (ANZAP) Annual Conference will take place in Wellington from…
tinyurl.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM