Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Matariki; Observed by: Māori people, New Zealand: Type: Cultural: Significance: Heliacal rising of the Pleiades star cluster (Māori: Matariki), signalling the Māori new year. Celebrations: Some hold dawn ceremonies and/or lay a hāngī: Date: June to July (varies) 2023 date: 14 July: 2024 date: 28 June: 2025 date: 20 June: Frequency: Annual ...
Regal and vice-regal Government Other party leaders in parliament Judiciary Main centre leaders Regal and vice-regal Head of state – Charles III Governor-General – Cindy Kiro Charles III Cindy Kiro Government Legislature term: 54th New Zealand Parliament. The Sixth National Government, elected in 2023, continues. Speaker of the House – Gerry Brownlee Prime Minister – Christopher Luxon ...
Miriama Jennet Kamo (born 19 October 1973) is a New Zealand journalist, children's author and television presenter.She currently presents TVNZ's Māori current affairs programme Marae and presented the current affairs programme Sunday between 2002 and 2024, when the show was cancelled.
After public discussion, in 2009 a bill was introduced to make Matariki a public holiday; however, the bill was voted down at its first reading. [9] Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on 7 September 2020 that her government would create a new public holiday to celebrate Matariki should the Labour Party win the 2020 general election. [10]
Pacific Underground were an intrinsic part of the Christchurch Arts Centre with an office for many years at the Dux de Lux (a well-known live music venue). The Arts Centre was deemed unsafe following the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes and Tanya Muagututi'a and Pos Mavaega after losing their work space relocated to Auckland.
By February 1930, the project had been approved in principle by Christchurch City Council. [10] The concept of a number of small shops all built as a comprehensive development was advanced for its time, and can be regarded as the forerunner of modern shopping malls. [11] New Regent Street during the Matariki celebrations (June 2021)
In 2024, she graduated with a Masters in Maori Visual Arts from Massey University. [5] As part of her masters project, an exhibition of her prints, Taa E Kōrero Ana – Marks That Speak, was on display at the Niven Gallery , Taupō .
Mātāmua (left), after his investiture as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Dame Cindy Kiro, at Government House, Wellington, on 24 May 2024 On 30 June 2020 Mātāmua was awarded the 2019 Prime Minister's Science Communication Prize for his work writing and speaking about Māori astronomy and Matariki.