Within Queensland, the SA4s of Gold Coast and Logan - Beaudesert are home to the largest Maori communities, with populations of 11,810 and 9,600 respectively. In fact, approximately one in seven people with Maori ancestry in Australia live in these two SA2s.
Most Maori tend to live in the North Island (86%), with almost a quarter living in Auckland. More than 10% of the population in Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Wellington are also Maori, so living or working in these areas will mean experiencing Maori culture more regularly than other parts of the county.
While about 90% of the present-day Māori population lives in New Zealand's North Island, there is some Māori presence on the South Island as well.
Currently there are over 170,000 Māori living in Australia - 20 percent of all Māori - and emigration numbers don't look like they're slowing anytime soon. The whakapapa of Māori migration across the Tasman stretches back over 200 years, with rangatira from Ngā Puhi being among the first Māori to cross the ditch.
There are significant Māori communities in certain suburbs of Sydney (Penrith, Parramatta, Liverpool, Blacktown, Campbelltown) as well as Brisbane (Woodridge, Forest Lake, Wynnum, Redbank), Gold Coast, Darwin, Melbourne and Perth. In 2001, there were 19,000 Māori living in Brisbane.
In 2018, the majority of people identified as being Māori in the territorial authorities of Chatham Islands (66.1% of the population), Wairoa (65.7%), Ōpōtiki (63.7%), Kawerau (61.7%), and Gisborne (52.9%) (Figure 1).
Harris Park has a plurality of Indian and Hindu population, both making up the largest ethnic and religious group. As a result a precinct in the suburb is officially known as 'Little India'.
Are Maoris and Australian aboriginals related? The Maori of New Zealand (NZ) and the Aborigines of Australia are not related in modern contexts. The Aborigines came to Australia about 40,000 years ago from Africa while the Maori came to NZ about 1,000 years ago from Polynesia.
The vast majority of New Zealand's Maori people also reside in the North Island, and to really immerse yourself in Maori culture, head for Rotorua, where there are two key Maori experiences to be had.
Census data from last year shows about 28,000 Maori lived in Brisbane, 3000 more than lived in Hamilton in 2006. Throw in the Gold Coast, and Mr Hamer said there were probably more Maori in south Queensland than in Christchurch. "Brisbane . . . is possibly the fourth largest urban concentration of Maori in the world."
A DNA ethnicity test taken by more than 9 million people worldwide has discovered a full-blooded Māori, Native Affairs presenter Oriini Kaipara. Oriini took the Ancestry.com DNA test last year as part of a Native Affairs story on Māori identity.
Beginning. The 1888–1889 New Zealand Native football team organised by Joseph Warbrick toured New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The team became the first New Zealand side to perform a haka during its match v Surrey, and also the first to wear an all black uniform.
The answer is genetics. Māori, and Polynesians, evolved to store fat on long ocean voyages and to insulate against winter, especially in Āotearoa. This was fine when Māori were more active, but today with sedentary lifestyles, it doesn't work in our favour as it once did.
Life expectancy for Māori males was 73.4 years in 2017–2019 (up 3.0 years from 2005–2007), and 77.1 years for Māori females (up 2.0 years). For non-Māori males, life expectancy was 80.9 years (up 1.9 years), and 84.4 years for non-Māori females (up 1.4 years).
Tribal Waka
Each iwi has their own hapū (sub-tribes). Iwi can trace their entire origins and whakapapa (genealogy) back to certain waka hourua. The seven waka hourua that arrived to Aotearoa were Tainui, Te Arawa, Mātaatua, Kurahaupō, Tokomaru, Aotea and Tākitimu.
However, since 1990 an international Māori diaspora has arisen. This is concentrated in Australia, where the promise of higher living standards have lured many. In the 2016 Australian census just over 142,000 people recorded Māori ancestry – about one in six of all New Zealand and Australian Māori.
These migrants, who sailed in double-hulled canoes from East Polynesia (specifically the Society Islands, the southern Cook Islands and the Austral Islands in French Polynesia), were the ancestors of the Māori people.
Auckland is the most ethnically diverse region in New Zealand with 53.5 percent identifying as Europeans, 28.2 percent as Asian, 11.5 percent as Māori, 15.5 percent as Pasifika, and 2.3 percent as Middle Eastern, Latin American or African (MELAA).
If you are a city person, North Island and its lively atmosphere would suit you better, while for those in love with a country lifestyle, South Island has so much to offer. Here is what you need to know about both islands to make the right decision.
For much of the first half of the 20th century it was believed that a pre-Māori people called Moriori inhabited New Zealand. Today Moriori are regarded as descendants, like Māori, of the original Polynesian settlers who arrived in about the 13th century.
Māori are the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, they settled here over 700 years ago. They came from Polynesia by waka (canoe).
Maussies or Mozzies (Māori Aussies), Ngāti Kangaru and Ngāti Skippy are some of the nicknames given to the thousands of Māori who have made their home in Australia. Many more travel further afield, with communities thriving in London and Utah, USA.
Indian-born Vivek Sehgal owns one of the world's biggest car parts firms. And he has Australian citizenship, making him eligible for a position among the country's wealthy elite.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese on Tuesday officially named Sydney's Harris Park area in Parramatta as 'Little India' during a special community event for the Indian diaspora.
At the 2021 census the states with the largest number of people nominating Indian ancestry were: New South Wales (350,770), Victoria (250,103), Queensland (93,648), Western Australia (77,357) and South Australia (43,598).