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Where Is the Iwi? Asking for a Struggling Māori

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Matua Kahurangi
Feb 14, 2025
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It's 2025, another year, another multi-million-dollar payout to our beloved Iwi leaders—because nothing says "uplifting the tangata" quite like a freshly imported Ford Raptor cruising through Moerewa while Auntie Hinemoa is boiling Maggi 2-Minute noodles on a butane stove outside her car. Ngāpuhi, I’m looking at you. The country’s largest Iwi, still sit…

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