About Us

Kia ora and Greetings from The Maori Directory Whanau.

Christel & Kevin Broederlow are the whanau behind www.maori-in-oz.com (MIO est 2004), the only portal of its kind outside of Aotearoa (NZ). Raised in Mangere East, South Auckland where many of our whanau still reside today. Christel is descendant of Ngati Paoa ki Ngati Maniapoto/German and Kevin is Ngati Porou and Samoan/German.

We moved to the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia in late 1997 with our young whanau and a keen interest in web design emerged, ultimately leading to the creation of MIO as a means for Maori to connect and tautoko one another as well as maintaining a connection with our whanau and our homeland.

Originally MIO held the only directory of Maori in Australia which enabled Maori to keep in contact with a fast burgeoning Kapahaka, Community and Business Directory. It quickly called for an overhaul! In the meantime no Maori Directory in Aotearoa (NZ) was providing a sufficient, up to date resource in the one area, directories were spread out everywhere as individuals, a directory for businesses (with thousands missing out!), another directory for government, another for certain community groups, health sectors and so forth, but not one large directory that combined every sector Maori are in. Changes were beckoning and after 2 years of solidly researching, compiling a plan and 9 months of building the portal, The Maori Directory (TMD) was launched in September of 2007.

It is high time Maori made a significant mark on the Internet Highway for ourselves independent of the giants who have dominated for  some years.  TMD is one of the largest most up to date Directories ever built by Maori, for Maori and all to access. We offer comprehensive listings (as many as you like) and it is FREE to join, FREE to add your listing and FREE to update 24/7.  We are not in this for the money, we're in this to tautoko (support) Maori and help spread the word in what we all do so well! 

Nau Mai Haere Mai to - The Maori Directory (TMD).
TMD Whanau