May 2025
Dhyanne Hohepa: ‘A light in the dark for Māori nurses’
May 6, 2025
Dhyanne Hohepa is a leader among Māori nurses driven by aroha and passionate about clinical excellence.
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Article Tag: NZNO
April 2025
Māori women and girl survivors of sexual violence face double trauma
April 23, 2025
Two Māori nursing leaders are at the United Nations highlighting the plight facing Māori health. In this interview with a UN reporter, they highlight the issue of violence, including sexual violence, toward Māori women who are three times more likely to be abused than non-Maori women.
Read more... Māori women and girl survivors of sexual violence face double trauma
April 2025
Proposed constitutional shake-up would see ‘more egalitarian’ and te Tiriti-led NZNO
April 11, 2025
All members will in May have the chance to vote on a proposed new NZNO — Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa constitution which would change the way the organisation is structured and members represented.
Read more... Proposed constitutional shake-up would see ‘more egalitarian’ and te Tiriti-led NZNO
April 2025
Nurses’ union backs call to scrap anti-Treaty bill
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.
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March 2025
Māori nursing leaders fight attack on Māori health – SOS to United Nations underway
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
Primary health-care nurses take offer but pay parity still on their radar
March 25, 2025
Primary health-care nurses are one step closer to getting the same pay as their fellow nurses working in hospitals or at Te Whatu Ora.
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March 2025
Napier stands with Buller – kaumātua recall last closure
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.
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March 2025
‘Scary time’ for workers trying to improve Māori health
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
February 2025
Another aged-care company plans major restructures
February 20, 2025
Unions have been notified that Bupa, one of the biggest aged care companies in New Zealand, will be restructuring 17 of its sites all at once.
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February 2025
Oceania Healthcare: Company books in good shape, but workers face more struggles
February 14, 2025
New Zealand’s largest rest-home owner Oceania Healthcare boasts in its latest financial report upward arrows on all key economic outputs from total comprehensive income to operating cashflow to assets. Every output has a good story for its board of directors and shareholders. But…
Read more... Oceania Healthcare: Company books in good shape, but workers face more struggles
February 2025
Grandfather excited at Whitireia growing the next wave of ‘warrior nurses’
February 13, 2025
Like many other grandparents and parents, Bob Rolleston travelled hundreds of kilometres across the country early this morning to give his mokopuna granddaughter to Whitireia’s bachelor of nursing Māori. He has worked in what he calls the “broken health system” but today he got more hope after seeing the huge interest by his moko and many other Māori in becoming “warrior nurses.”
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January 2025
Poor pay forcing nurses to hīkoi from one crisis to another
January 30, 2025
Nurses are being forced to walk from their jobs in the community, where they are desperately needed, to other spaces where there is a health crisis or even further, to foreign lands.
Read more... Poor pay forcing nurses to hīkoi from one crisis to another
January 2025
‘It plays with lives, especially Māori lives’ – NZNO
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
January 2025
Treaty Principles Bill will further harm Māori health
January 14, 2025
A nursing leader is concerned Māori will not get the chance to live longer and the same as non-Māori in New Zealand, if the coalition Government continues to attack the Treaty of Waitangi.
Read more... Treaty Principles Bill will further harm Māori health
January 2025
‘She bled for our people’ – nurses pay tribute to Dame Tariana Turia
January 6, 2025
Nurses throughout Aotearoa passionate about achieving better Māori health outcomes are joining with te ao Māori to mourn the loss of Dame Tariana Turia – a former Associate Minister of Health and Whānau Ora Minister.
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January 2025
2024 strikes an amazing expression of ‘kotahitanga’
December 20, 2024
The last of the health strikes for 2024 have ended with one of their negotiators encouraging nurses, midwives and healthcare workers throughout Aotearoa to keep up the “kotahitanga” leading into the new year.
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December 2024
Rolling nurse strikes reinforce plea for patient safety
December 13, 2024
Thousands of Te Whatu Ora nurses and kaiāwhina at different locations throughout the country are taking part in rolling strikes, reinforcing their message for more patient safety.
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January 2025
Safe staffing and stronger community health care — returning president and vice-president share their aims
December 9, 2024
In the first of two leadership profiles, Kaitiaki talks to returning NZNO president Anne Daniels and vice-president Nano Tunnicliff about their priorities.
December 2024
Nationwide strike: ‘It’s not right’ – patients speak up
December 4, 2024
“Our hospitals aren’t safe – I’ve seen it. We need more nurses and they need to treated better and paid properly.”
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November 2024
Non-Māori nurses have nothing to fear in joining hīkoi
November 12, 2024
“To our Pākeha nurses, there’s nothing to fear when you see thousands of Māori marching down the street. Come and join us, you’ll have fun and learn a lot about tangata whenua and our country’s founding document.”
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