April 2025
April 4, 2025
Parliament’s Justice Committee has released its report into the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill and has recommended it does not proceed.
Read more... Nurses’ union backs call to scrap anti-Treaty bill
March 2025
March 28, 2025
In the last two remaining NZNO leadership profiles, Kaitiaki talks to Te Rūnanga o Aotearoa NZNO kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku and tumu whakarae Tracy Black. They share the mahi done so far and their focus for the rest of the year.
Read more... Māori nursing leaders fight attack on Māori health – SOS to United Nations underway
March 2025
March 21, 2025
Communities in small towns and cities, where vital health services are being threatened, are getting behind the Buller Declaration to demand action from the Government.
Read more... Napier stands with Buller – kaumātua recall last closure
March 2025
March 14, 2025
“It is a very scary time right now for nurses, whānau ora navigators and other kaimahi working to keep Māori communities alive longer,” says Tracey Morgan, chair of NZNO’s College of Primary Health Care Nurses.
Read more... ‘Scary time’ for workers trying to improve Māori health
March 2025
March 11, 2025
Changes to free bowel cancer screening age eligiblity will leave more Māori and Pacific people at risk of dying, say nursing and Māori health leaders.
Read more... Bowel cancer screening changes ‘dangerous for Māori’, say Māori health leaders
February 2025
February 27, 2025
Despite grief at the “once in a generational opportunity” lost with the dissolution of Te Aka Whai Ora/Māori Health Authority, chief nurse Nadine Gray tells Kaitiaki she will not stop raising its Māori health kaupapa.
Read more... Chief nurse opens up on the challenges of working at Te Whatu Ora
January 2025
January 28, 2025
The Treaty of Waitangi and its principles are the solution to fixing the broken foundation of the country’s health system, Parliament’s Justice Select Committee has heard.
Read more... ‘It plays with lives, especially Māori lives’ – NZNO
September 2024
August 30, 2024
NZNO – Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa has joined with the nation to mourn the passing of Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII.
September 2024
August 13, 2024
In an urgent call to better support New Zealand-trained nurses, senior Māori nursing lecturer at NorthTec, Pipi Barton (Ngāti Hikairo ki Kāwhia) recalls being an out-of-work nursing graduate in the 1990s.
Read more... Left out in the cold: Is it really about health budget constraints?
September 2024
August 12, 2024
Inspired by her “Poppy” and driven by the need for better health outcomes for Māori, Shauna Power has set her sights on a career in nursing our country’s next generation.
August 2024
 | Medicines and older Māori — ‘It is through shared conversations that I understand’ |
July 10, 2024
How do kaumātua view the medicines service they receive and how could it be improved? What ethnic variations are there in this service? This educational course focuses on medicines and older Māori and is relevant to nurses in primary care, alongside pharmacists and GPs.
Read more... Medicines and older Māori — ‘It is through shared conversations that I understand’
April 2024
March 14, 2024
Amid the ashes of Te Aka Whai Ora, Māori nurses will still be chasing better pay, safer staffing and culturally safe workplaces.
Read more... Te Aka Whai Ora is gone — but the aims of Māori nurses stay true
March 2024
February 22, 2024
A Te Tiriti o Waitangi-focused event in March will help nurses and kaiāwhina become more culturally and politically competent at an ‘alarming’ time, say organisers and NZNO’s kaiwhakahaere.
Read more... What can Pākeha do? Anti-racism event offers chance to ‘stand up, fight back’
March 2024
February 8, 2024
Rhetoric from leaders of a three-headed coalition Government “taniwha” at Waitangi this year reflected ignorance and “diminished” Māori, says Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa kaiwhakahere Kerri Nuku.
Read more... Nurses and kaiāwhina show up to a Waitangi event ‘like no other’
February 2024
January 19, 2024
NZNO’s Te Rūnanga members are mourning Richard Rangi Wallace, NZNO’s former kaumātua and Māori Anglican pīhopa (bishop) o Te Waipounamu who died on January 6.
Read more... ‘Just a really good guy’ — NZNO leaders mourn former kaumātua Richard Rangi Wallace
December 2023
November 8, 2023
| 50 years after nurse education moved out of hospitals, Māori health professor and former nurse Denise Wilson reflects on the “ugly” backlash over cultural safety — and challenges the profession to make way for Māori leaders. |  |
October 2023
October 11, 2023
What do Māori people think about the key election issue of health? Reporter Joel Maxwell discovers cultural clashes, a need for financial support – and hope for the future.
Read more... Election 2023: As the timer resets, what do Māori think about health?
August 2023
July 13, 2023
Māori nurse, researcher and long-time advocate for equitable cancer outcomes in a Eurocentric and racist health system, Jacquie Kidd faces her own cancer diagnosis, that came too late.
Read more... ‘I feel it was inevitable — why should I be any different to anybody else?’
July 2023
June 26, 2023
Many nurses and kaiāwhina who work for Māori, iwi and Pacific providers haven’t had a pay increase, despite an injection of $200 million towards closing the gap in rates with Te Whatu Ora.
Read more... Celebration over pay disparity ‘fix’ for Māori, iwi, Pacific providers on hold for many
June 2023
May 17, 2023
The journey to complete a master of nursing has served to further ignite Tania Bailey’s passion for reducing health inequities for Māori.
Read more... Turning perception into practice: Advocating for cultural safety in health care
