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Celebrity and indigenous voice

The Australian PM met with Shaquille O’Neal to enlist his support for constitutional recognition for an Indigenous voice. Some question why Shaq.

Never Have I Ever a winner at ORCAs

AUT Advertising and Brand Creative students have won this year’s TRB student competition at the ORCAs.

Matariki chocolate and perfect ice cream

An AUT patisserie student has won a trip to Samoa for her Matariki-inspired chocolate, and a culinary alumnus has scored perfectly for his ice cream.

Guiding tourism in the Pacific Islands

With visitors now returning to the Pacific Islands, AUT is helping destinations make better decisions on building back.

AI for the environment hackathon

In September AUT will host the female-led AI hackathon AI for the environment in a weekend of creative problem-solving.

AUT finalists at Best Awards 2022

Forty-two AUT student projects are finalists in the prestigious Best Awards.

Fashion student ‘level above the rest’

Sheetol Chawla’s spirituality-inspired collection saw her take home the supreme award and close to $18k at the Hokonui Fashion Design Awards.

Racism, exclusion and tokenism

Given most universities have goals for increasing Māori and Pacific student and staff, we need to ask why numbers still remain low in the research sector.

Mātauranga Māori celebrated

Te Ara Pakihi, Te Ōhanga Me Te Ture | Faculty of Business, Economics and Law has contributed to many recent successes and celebrations of mātauranga Māori.

Canadians study at AUT to be teachers

Blake Wilson is one of 67 initial teacher education students from Canada among the international students who were welcomed onto AUT’s marae.