By Mary Longmore
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
By Mary Longmore
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’
By Mary Longmore
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’
By Mary Longmore
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
By Denise Wilson
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. |
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Read more... Māori nurses must be recognised as taonga — and key to a future with equal health for all
By Joel Maxwell
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?
By Mary Longmore
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?’
By Cate Macintosh
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
By Holly Ann Taylor
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
By Cate Macintosh
May 9, 2023
Māori nurses joined over 1000 indigenous peoples calling for their rights to be upheld, and an end to discrimination at a United Nations forum.
Read more... ‘Humbled’ in the presence of global indigenous leaders
By Tina Makereti
February 16, 2023
‘Why, when my cancer care was so excellent, did it also seem to miss so much of what is essential to health?’ Tina Makereti shares an excerpt from her award-winning essay about surviving breast cancer.
Read more... Lumpectomy — an unflinching account of surviving breast cancer
By Pipi Barton
July 20, 2022
Māori nurse, lecturer and researcher puts out a call for more Māori nurses to join roopu on growing the Māori nursing workforce.
Read more... Sitting at the top table — he karanga ki ngā tapuhi Māori
By Linda Bryant
December 1, 2021
Gout is a chronic and debilitating long-term condition that disproportionately affects Māori and Pacific people. It needs to be addressed with holistic care, and patient, ongoing relationships with whānau.
Read more... Beyond medicines for gout
By Moe Milne
June 12, 2020
Te Tai Tokerau Māori health advocate Moe Milne, Ngāti Hine and Ngāpuhi, says Māori have proven they can take care of their own whānau, after a nurse-Led response to COVID-19 reached hundreds in vulnerable Northland communities.
Read more... Iwi response to COVID-19 shows power of Māori-led health care