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Story: Tūranga i te hapori – status in Māori society

Māori professionals: Tui Adams and Eddie Durie

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Māori professionals: Tui Adams and Eddie Durie

Doctor Tuhuatahi Tui Adams and Justice Eddie Taihakurei Durie chat at a Māori law symposium at Hopuhopu, Waikato, in 2007. The two men's professional attainments – one an academic and the other a high-court judge – illustrate the high professional positions some Māori obtained in the 1990s and early 2000s.

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Basil Keane, Tūranga i te hapori – status in Māori society – Changes in leadership, 20th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/31140/maori-professionals-tui-adams-and-eddie-durie (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Basil Keane, published 3 May 2011.