Many Twitter users criticised her comments as racially and culturally insensitive, pointing out that moko is part of indigenous culture. Ms Pierson told New Zealand news outlet Stuff that she ...

Summer for the country’s northernmost mayor will mean the haven of his family at the end of the road in one of the country’s ...

But one woman's striking chin design - or moko - has generated huge debate in New Zealand, because she is white, with no Maori heritage. Sally Anderson, who is married to a Maori man, says her ...

The Far North’s youngest-ever mayor reckons it’s time more people of his generation got into politics, saying those who think he’s too green for the job tend to be around his age, rather than those of ...

New Zealand has seen one of the biggest demonstrations ... Children marched alongside their parents bearing distinctive full-face Maori 'moko' tattoos and clutching ceremonial wooden weapons.

It depicts the priest with a moko, or facial tattoo ... makes it the most valuable Māori portrait in New Zealand art history. "Goldie was well loved by Māori during his lifetime, [he] lived ...