Te Ao Maori

Māori adoptees are calling for urgent reform of New Zealand's adoption legislation, saying it is depriving Māori children of their whakapapa.

Adopted people can access their original birth… Audio

Maori wanting customary title of their coastlines say the process is taking so long they're worried many people will die of old age without living to see justice for their people.

Applicants had a… Audio

Tobacco giant Philip Morris is targeting Māori with its new e-cigarette, selling the device to them at half price and going to places with high Māori populations to promote it. Guyon Espiner… Video, Audio

The findings of a two-year study into how a grassroots-model turned homeless people's lives around will be at the centre of a summit in Mt Albert.

Marae and social agencies want to know what it will… Audio

The grass-roots model used by a South Auckland Marae to support the city's homeless will be at the centre of a summit in Mt Albert.

Te Puea Marae in Māngere has fed, housed and transitioned 415… Audio

How about Matariki as a public holiday? And the Question of the Day is: If you could invent a public holiday what would it be to commemorate. Audio

An ambitious joint Māori-Samoan bid to build a US$700 million tourism resort in French Polynesia has collapsed before it even got started. The Kaitiaki Tagaloa consortium, headed by the former MP and… Audio

Te Ahi Kaa features highlights from NAISA – or the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference hosted by The University of Waikato. Professor Mary Tuti Baker and Tina Grandinetti… Audio

Maimoa Music crew member Pere Wihongi has released his first solo song 'High on Ingoingo' to encourage and inspire rangatahi. Pere speaks to Yadana Saw about being the brightest thing out of Herekino.

The government is allocating millions of dollars to investigate systemic racism and institutional discrimination against Māori women.

Māori women continue to have poorer social, economic… Audio

A rāhui is being placed on parts of Lake Taupō and the upper Waikato River following the massive sewage spill earlier this week.

The Tūwharetoa Māori Trust Board has imposed the rāhui from 9am Friday… Audio

A Rotorua whanau's social media plea for information about a stolen pounamu from their son's grave site has been shared nearly four thousand times. For three years, the dark-green - circle-shaped… Audio

Professor Rangi Mātāmua talks about the 120-year-old book which has preserved his ancestors' knowledge of Māori astronomy. Audio

Our Bookmarks guest today takes her role as an indigenous film maker very seriously, but having a Pakeha Mum and a Maori dad, being comfortable with her Maoriness wasn't always something that came… Audio

The Waitangi Tribunal has found the Crown has breached the Treaty by failing to give Māori control over a primary health system that works for them.

The Tribunal says Māori health funding is poorly… Audio

New figures show a growing disparity between the numbers of rangatahi Māori (under-18's) and non-Māori being arrested.

Although the total number of youth arrests has fallen - Māori under-18-year-olds… Audio

Mahi a Atua is a Māori approach to mental wellbeing drawing on the stories, narratives and healing practices of te ao Māori (the Māori world). Psychiatrist Diana Kopua gives us an insight into the… Audio