Oriini Kaipara has been a journalist for almost 20 years, focusing on issues of the country’s indigenous Maori people. Oriini Kaipara has been a journalist for almost 20 years, focusing on issues of ...

Social media platform Snapchat has removed a feature which allowed users to apply traditional Maori tattoos on their faces. The filters were pulled after their discovery prompted an outcry in New ...

Following a backlash in New Zealand caused by the discovery of culturally insensitive filters on social media platforms, the parent company that runs Snapchat has removed filters that showed images of ...

In one of the pictures of the weavers in the last post, one of the women had a tattoo on her chin. Tattoos, called Moko, have been an integral part of Maori culture for many hundreds of years. Far ...

A high-profile newsreader in New Zealand has publicly slapped down an irate viewer who had repeatedly complained about her traditional face tattoo. In 2021, Newshub presenter Oriini Kaipara became the ...

A Brisbane pub is changing its entry policy after a Māori woman took to social media to vent her frustration when she was banned from entry because of her chin tattoo. Juanita McNamera, who lives in ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. TONY EASTLEY: A New Zealand professor says that Maori are talking about the possible revival of an ...

Until the 1870s, Maori men of New Zealand etched deep tattoos over their entire faces. Patterns were chiseled into the skin to create parallel ridges and grooves, much like designs cut into wood. This ...

The Maori veteran said he was left feeling “embarrassed” after he was refused service at a popular pub over his traditional face tattoo, known as Mataora. Michael Barclay told A Current Affair on ...

A high profile New Zealand newsreader has publicly shamed an irate viewer who had bombarded her with a ridiculous complaint. In 2021, Newshub presenter Oriini Kaipara because the first person to ...