2024
Professor Tahu Kukutai, with Dr Moana Rarere, will redefine Māori historical demography by examining 19th-century Māori population data through a lens of Indigenous data and cultural understanding: University researchers receive Marsden funding for ten groundbreaking projects (7 November 2024)
Dr Moana Rarere is mentioned as an expert source on population trend and demographics. She provides insights into the projected population growth of Hamilton and compares it to Wellington on the Waikato Times website with Not if but when: Hamilton set to overtake Wellington (5 November 2024)
Dr Ritu Roy sharing expertise on the Horizon Europe project – Kiwi researchers working to bring marginalised voices to the forefront in European Citizens’ Assemblies (4 September 2024)
Dr Moana Rarere on 'Wellington’s birth rate hits 30-year low' (17 August 2024)
Professor Tahu Kukutai on The Hui livestream: Episode 19, discussing the 'cost of living crisis in Aotearoa' (8 July 2024)
Dr Moana Rarere successfully defends her PhD thesis (July 2024)
Professor Tahu Kukutai on TVNZ News segment Census: Nearly one million identify as being of Maori descent. (June 2024)
Professor Tahu Kukutai on waateanews.com Drive Show about the announcement of Stats NZ and Te Kāhui Raraunga announced the 2023 census in Rotorua. (7 June 2024)
2023
Prof Polly Atotoa Carr on ‘Trust’ needed to boost Pacific engagement in census. More Pacific people have returned this year’s Census forms, but some say it could be better. Pacific Media Network. (29 June 2023)
Prof Polly Atotoa Carr on "“Growing Up in New Zealand has recently described the experience of frequent residential moves, housing quality, living in overcrowding and homelessness for approximately 5000 12 year old young people in Aotearoa". Radio Waatea. (26 June 2023)
Professor Tahu Kukutai on "Where is everyone? Ten percent still missing from the Census". Nine to Noon: RNZ. (6 June 2023)
Professor Tahu Kukutai "Disappointing but not disastrous to have 87,500 Waikato census forms outstanding". Waikato Times. (3 May 2023).
Associate Professor Polly Atatoa Carr Low response rates for Pacific people in 2023 Census. The Panel:RNZ. (5th May 2023)
Associate Professor Polly Atotoa Carr. 'Pacific turnout concerns as Census deadline looms – Expert Reaction'. SMC. (4 May 2023)
Associate Professor Polly Atotoa Carr 'Wake-up call': Children sleeping in shelters, cars, 'poor' quality homes'. Stuff. (1 May 2023)
Prof Tahu Kukutai on "Collecting Māori census data takes more than just sending aunty to collect the forms". NZ Herald. (12 April 2023)
Prof Tahu Kukutai, Dr Jesse Whitehead and Ass Prof Polly Atatoa Carr on 'How does filling out the census form help researchers to gain a better picture of Aotearoa?'. Scoop. (4 March 2023)
Professor Tahu Kukutai Census 2023: Getting the count right The Detail: RNZ. (16 February 2023)
Professor Tahu Kukutai Census turnout low despite $37m blowout. Newsroom. (10 April 2023)
2022
Professor Tahu Kukutai says colonisation is deeply entwined with surveillance and capitalism in Newroom's article Police want to change the laws they've broken, 25 October 2022
Dr Jesse Whitehead in University of Otago news, Health outcomes for rural communities, 5 August 2022
Professor Tahu Kukutai on Radio New Zealand, call for New Zealand to take control of data storage in RNZ's Head in the clouds? Call for NZ to take control of data storage, 1 august 2022.
Professor Tahu Kukutai in Stuff News, How a law change six years in the making changes the way the state collects data about us, 1 August 2022
Professor Tahu Kukutai in the Spinoff, Inside the fight for Māori data sovereignty, 29 July 2022
Professor Tahu Kukutai on Waatea News, Call for New Zealand to take control of data storage 28 July 2022
Professor Tahu Kukutai in Waatea News on why reclaiming data sovereignty for Māori is important, 2 June 2022