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Māori Queen Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po has launched the 'Kotahitanga Fund', a new multi-million-dollar Māori investment platform.

Te Arikinui made the announcement at the inaugural Ōhanga ki te Ao Māori Economic Summit in Hamilton on Saturday.

In her closing address, Te Arikinui said she was proud to launch the initiative as a "declaration" that Māori were ready to invest in "ourselves, in our brilliance and in the future we choose".

"This fund is more than an investment tool," she said. "To me, it's an answer - at least the partial one - to the challenges of leveraging the collective strength and scale of the Māori economy.

"It enables us to achieve the scale, to make meanin

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