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12:15 PM.Te Matawai is the independent organisation established in 2016 with the mission to 'restore Maori as a nurturing first language within Maori homes and communities'. Professor Poia Rewi was appointed… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Festival director, Vanessa Stacey, gives an overview of the next three weeks featuring local and international acts at New Zealand's largest open-access arts festival. Emerging talent will be… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Maori bass baritone and vocal coach Robert Wiremu has developed a work which commemorates the Erebus air disaster in Antarctica through the lens of Mozart. Air New Zealand Flight TE901 was on a sight… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Last September marked 40 years since the Te Maori exhibition opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and recently its Oceania galleries underwent a major renovation. They will reopen in… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Last September marked 40 years since the Te Maori exhibition opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and recently its Oceania galleries underwent a major renovation. They will reopen in… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Black Ferns Sevens captain Sarah Hirini has just returned from Cape Town where she led her team to victory in a tournament there. It adds to a trophy cabinet that includes Olympic and Commonwealth… Read more Audio

12:20 PM.[picture id="4KFJWJGĀndrewĒrueti__ScaleMaxWidthWzY5MF0_jpg" crop="16x10" layout="full"] This week the Supreme Court allowed the Attorney General to appeal a judgment which made it easier for Maori to… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Dr Pounamu Jade Aikman is one of a new wave of Maori thinkers and academics whose research includes policing, health, education and indigenous knowledge systems in Aotearoa and overseas. Next year… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.ACT's treaty principles bill mobilised not just in Maori but many of Aotearoa in the biggest Hikoi and demonstration seen in decades culminating in a mass gathering outside of parliament in… Read more Audio

12:48 PM.In 2018 Opeti Vaka decided to try his hand at the RAW comedy quest and now he's travelling the motu taking his own brand of comedy on the road. He says his Maori, Tongan and Irish heritage provides… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.At the grand old age of 99, Ta Robert "Bom" Gillies passed was laid to rest on Tuesday in Rotorua. He was the last of the more than three-thousand-five-hundred men who served in the battalion of whom… Read more Audio

12:20 PM.Moana Maniapoto is a multi award winning singer, songwriter and journalist. While touring with her band she has done concerts in China, Borneo, the New Orleans Jazz Festival, Poland, Hungary and Korea… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Ngati Toa rangatira Helmut Modlik and chief Kirk Francis from the Penobscot tribe in the north eastern United States discuss sovereignty, tribal economies and constitutional arrangements following an… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Aotearoa's first ever Indigenous Tribal Leaders Symposium was held this week at Parliament this week and featured Maori and First Nations tribal leaders from the United States. Te Runanga o Toa… Read more Audio

4:32 PM.Ngai Tahu musician Ariana Tikao and Bob Bickerton are currently on a national tour showcasing their new album, Muriwai. Both of them are accomplished players of taonga puoro which they've combined… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.This week Lady Tureiti Moxon received an honorary doctorate from Waikato University for her outstanding contribution to the health and well being of New Zealanders. She's also chair of the National… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Shane Cotton is an award winning and internationally acclaimed Maori artist with a new show opening today in Tamaki Makaurau. Painting was always his first love and we explore how he fused that with a… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.The award winning and internationally acclaimed Maori artist, Shane Cotton, opens a new show in Tamaki Makaurau this weekend. His new paintings are billed as a "collision of Indigenous and European… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Over the past 50 years Professor Ngahuia te Awekotuku has been one of the most influential Maori academics and writers. In 1981 she became the first Maori woman to receive a PHD from a New Zealand… Read more Audio