Mike FranksNov 4
By New Zealand artist Mike Te Paea, with Bryce and Troup and other students at Northern Health School, 96 Walton School, Whangārei 0110, New Zealand in December 2024. Photos taken February 2025. Thanks to @streetartcities app for leading me to Whangārei.
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"The Northland Unit has been very lucky to have a special taonga (treasure) painted on the wall by our driveway in Whangarei. Our ākonga (students) had the opportunity to be involved, with sessions with the artist Mike Te Paea, to produce the manu (bird panels) that are bolted to the mural. One student, Troup, was also involved with the painting of the forest.
The mural depicts a golden tree, which represents the innate potential of each of our ākonga. When we can identify and cherish that potential, our ākonga (students) will fly. The manu (bird panels) represent the guardians of the ngāhere (forest)." @northernhealthschoolnz December 6, 2024
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#aerosol #Aotearoa #artinschool #birdart #collab #educationnz #globalstreetart #graffitimural #hospitalschool #insearchofstreetart #inspiration #jj_urbanart #mural #muralart #newzealand #newzealandartist #northernhealthschool #nzschool #publicart #sprayart #streetart #streetart_daily #streetartist #streetartphotography #streetartworldwide #taonga #treeart #urbanart #wallart #whangarei
News BeepOct 27

Hauraki Gulf restoration: $26m plan backs 19 new protected areas

The investment supports the Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Act 2025, which establishes 19 new protected…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #19 #26m #areas #backs #conservation #countrys #establishing #great #Gulf #hauraki #million #minister #new #NewZealand #NZ #plan #potaka #protected #restoration #restoring #says #spent #support #tama #taonga #will
https://www.newsbeep.com/212742/

ClareBear 💚 May 31, 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/may/31/queen-elizabeth-ii-had-raised-children-in-the-public-eye-i-asked-if-she-had-any-advice-for-me-an-exclusive-extract-from-jacinda-arderns-memoir #nzpol #justgetonwithit #ourdame #taonga
‘I asked Queen Elizabeth II if she had any advice for me’: Jacinda Ardern on her time as a pregnant prime minister

In an exclusive extract from her new memoir, the former New Zealand PM remembers coping with pregnancy while new in the job – and what the monarch said to her

The Guardian
®Dec 7, 2024

Summer is coming! Had an awesome day out in Porirua capturing a story that will resonate with the locals and nationwide. Can't wait to share this one...

#recruitmentMarketing #video #storytelling #iwi #taonga #kaimahi

mementomaoriOct 9, 2024

OK this sucks

Stan Walker's 'priceless' taonga missing after festival - have you seen it? #NZ #Aotearoa #Taonga #StanWalker #Promiseland #Australia

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/530227/stan-walker-s-priceless-taonga-missing-after-festival-have-you-seen-it

Stan Walker's 'priceless' taonga missing after festival - have you seen it?

Rings, necklaces, whale bones, and greenstones were among the "priceless" taonga that went missing after Stan Walker's performance at Promiseland.

RNZ
Ronsboy67Aug 19, 2023
An attitudinal shift I made decades ago. #Aotearoa #taonga
The Guardian: ‘Bird killing machines’: New Zealand cools on cats to protect native wildlife
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/19/bird-killing-machines-new-zealand-cools-on-cats-to-protect-native-wildlife
‘Bird killing machines’: New Zealand cools on cats to protect native wildlife

Once a nation of cat-lovers, attacks on other animals and recovery in local fauna is reshaping attitudes toward felines

The Guardian
RorzerJul 10, 2023

Saw te Rā at te Puna Waiwhetū today.
Quite incredible. A wonderful taonga that needs to sail home permanently.

What got me was the smell. Dry, dusty. A mix of flax and hessian.

The "collector" kept no provenance, so we don't know if was gifted, stolen or sold. We don't even know its awa.

#taonga #tera

Iain MacLeanJul 1, 2023
This is going to wind the racists up. Just in time for an election with NACT politicians happy to press the racist button.

Māori voices are being sought to develop a legislative framework to protect taonga or treasured possessions.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/132456657/tiaki-taonga-to-spearhead-protection-of-mori-taonga #IndigenousRights #Wai262 #taonga #nzpol
Tiaki Taonga to spearhead protection of Māori taonga

Māori voices are being sought to develop a legislative framework to protect taonga or treasured possessions.

Stuff
Show thread¡No Pasarán, Mate!May 30, 2023

#Ownership:

#CulturalExpressions, including #images, #symbols, and #practices, are #taonga (#treasures) that are passed down through generations and hold sacred meaning.

Removing the ownership of an image of an #indigenous person from the group that they represent is #theft.

Jens NotroffJan 13, 2023

Only a handful of the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei people's cultural #taonga (treasures) are left after #looting during #colonial times:

"We are inextricably linked": #Māori tribe urges #Sotheby’s to return #relics up for auction - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/12/maori-tribe-sothebys-relics-auction-new-zealand by @tessairini@twitter.com via @guardian@twitter.com

‘We are inextricably linked’: Māori tribe urges Sotheby’s to return relics up for auction

New Zealand tribe says only a handful of its cultural taonga, or treasures, are left after successive waves of looting during colonial times

The Guardian