Paepae in the Park - a Waitangi Day festival in Pātea - attracted about 1500 people this year, with the community coming together to celebrate. About 1500 people gathered in Pātea for a Waitangi ...

Some of the dignitaries and iwi leaders left Waitangi to go straight down to pay their respects this week and her name rang out on the paepae here many, many times. She's been lying at Te ...

On the paepae, the first speaker for the hau kāinga opened by saying, it was not easy to speak on this day “because our hearts are weeping”. While paying respect to those past, he also acknowledged ...

Analysis - When Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka stood to speak on the paepae during Waitangi Day commemorations a rōpu of wāhine Māori arose from their seats and turned their backs. They stood ...