Press Releases

One of New Zealand’s rising stars in the wine industry is tapping in to a set of multi million dollar taste buds to help promote its brand.

Moa bones and a Māori adze head discovered on an historic building site in Auckland are being heralded as highly significant archaeological finds for New Zealand.

Two multi-talented New Zealand Māori artists are about to make their mark in the US – by becoming artists-in-residence at a prestigious Washington university.

History has been created with one of the largest pieces of Māori art being gifted to China by New Zealand Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism, John Key.

New Zealand’s input into the latest Hollywood blockbuster 'Avatar' is well documented but few people know that the alien language spoken in the movie is based on Māori.

A traditional Māori medicine garden planted on an East Coast marae during Conservation Week could be repeated elsewhere in New Zealand, as part of a Department of Conservation campaign to raise awareness.

New Zealand’s second Māori Music Awards have produced some promising and high profile winners including Maisey Rika, the female vocalist who performed in New Zealand’s Giant Rugby Ball in Tokyo recently.

A New Zealand Māori tour company specialising in unique Kiwi experiences has won a prestigious global award.

While Waitangi, in New Zealand's far north, hosted official national day ceremonies, Stewart Island, in the deep south, was marking the occasion in a quintessentially Kiwi fashion - on the rugby field.

The largest fleet of waka, or ceremonial Māori canoes, in recorded history will gather at Waitangi in New Zealand’s Bay of Islands in February 2010 for the national Waitangi Day celebrations.