Press Releases

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.

New Zealand’s Māori King is to lead a delegation to New York to join an official welcome for former NZ prime minister Helen Clark when she takes up her new job with the United Nations.

A New Zealand short film that tells a tale from the WWI trenches has won top honours – for the second time – in an international festival for animation and digital media.

British comedian Dawn French has given New Zealand a glowing report in a UK Telegraph celebrity travel column, describing her visit to the country as love at first sight.

Hugh Jackman, star of the recently released movie ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ which features the South Island resort of Queenstown, says New Zealand’s “otherworldly and magical” qualities have helped elevate the film.