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These now extend right through secondary schools (kura tuarua). Most preschool centres teach basics such as colours, numerals and greetings in Māori songs and chants. [165] Māori Television, a government-funded channel committed to broadcasting primarily in Te Reo, began in March 2004. [94]
The culture of New Zealand is a synthesis of indigenous Māori, colonial British, and other cultural influences.The country's earliest inhabitants brought with them customs and language from Polynesia, and during the centuries of isolation, developed their own Māori and Moriori cultures.
Other species, also now extinct, included the New Zealand swan, the New Zealand goose and the giant Haast's eagle, which preyed upon the moa. Marine mammals – seals in particular – thronged the coasts, with evidence of coastal colonies much further north than those which remain today. [22]
Sexologist John Money, recognised today as a contentious figure for his experiments regarding children and the David Reimer case, was a pioneer of modern gender identity studies. Money's theory that gender is learnt has become outdated and even condemned, [ 81 ] although his terms gender role and sexual orientation remain common in modern parlance.
YouTube TV announced the development on Thursday night in a blog post, saying subscribers will continue to have access to CBS and other Paramount channels, as well as any recordings in their library.
The right to vote in state elections was granted in Western Australia in 1962 and Queensland was the last state to do so in 1965. Aboriginal people had served in Australian parliaments since colonial times without publicly identifying as such, but from the 1970s, a new generation of Aboriginal representation in Parliament began to assert its ...
An Incredible Discovery. However, it’s not all bad news. The discovery of a new orangutan population in Sarawek, Malaysian Borneo was cause for excitement among conservationists.
Although the Māori version of the Treaty of Waitangi gave the Crown the right to govern British subjects, Māori who wanted to partake in the earliest New Zealand democracy were largely shunned due to the land-ownership franchise, which restricted the right to vote to men aged 21 and over who owned property worth least 25 pounds.