Young Maori: Concern for homeless at kapa Haka competition

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016

Last week’s national secondary schools’ kapa haka competitions in Hawke’s Bay have shown that rangatahi are deeply concerned with politics and social issues.

Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox says she wishes more of her political colleagues understood te reo Maori so they could appreciate the korero coming from the stage about issues affecting their whanau, like homelessness and poverty. Continue reading

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