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Bailey Mackey (born 1977), former head of sport for Maori Television; executive producer of The GC; ex-husband of former Shortland Street actress Emmeline Hawthorne who has relocated to Gisborne) Margaret Moth (1951–2010), CNN photojournalist; Henare te Ua (1933–2007), broadcaster; Neil Waka, former TVNZ journalist
Moana Maree Maniapoto MNZM (born 22 June 1961) is a New Zealand singer, songwriter and documentary maker. [1] Widely considered one of New Zealand's most successful indigenous acts, [2] her music is described as a fusion of traditional Māori haka, chants and taonga pūoro, with contemporary soul, reggae and classical styles. [3]
Hine-nui-te-pō, also known as the "Great Woman of Night" is a giant goddess of death and the underworld. [2] Her father is Tāne, the god of forests and land mammals. Her mother Hine-ahu-one is a human, made from earth. Hine-nui-te-pō is the second child of Tāne and Hine-ahu-one.
Rika was born in Wellington to a Ngāti Awa, Tūhoe, Te Arawa and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui mother and a Samoan father, and moved to Rotorua at a young age. [1] [5] While her mother did not speak Māori, Rika attended a kōhanga reo, a kura kaupapa, and Māori boarding schools, which allowed her to learn the language from a young age.
Māori are the second-largest ethnic group in New Zealand, after European New Zealanders (commonly known by the Māori name Pākehā). In addition, more than 170,000 Māori live in Australia. The Māori language is spoken to some extent by about a fifth of all Māori, representing three per cent of the total population.
The coat of arms of New Zealand (Māori: Te Tohu Pakanga o Aotearoa [3]) is the heraldic symbol representing the South Pacific island country of New Zealand.Its design reflects New Zealand's history as a bicultural nation, with Zealandia, a European female figure on one side and a Māori rangatira (chief) on the other.
[2] [3] [4] She received her moko kauae facial tattoo in January 2019 while she was a journalist for TVNZ's Te Karere. [5] In November 2019 she was the first person with a moko kauae to present mainstream television news on TVNZ's 1News. [6] [7] In May 2021 she moved to Three and began presenting news on the programme Newshub Live at 4.30pm. [8]