Te Ao Maori

Free flu vaccines for Māori and Pasifika people aged between 55 and 64 are no longer free.

In 2022 and 2023 Pharmac widened free access to vaccines for this group, and for children up to 12 years… Audio

After 35 years of 6 o'clock bulletins, TV3's Newshub is likely to shutdown operations after financial losses became too big to sustain.

Up to 300 staff will lose their jobs by the end of June if the… Audio

The dismantling of the Maori Health Authority is under way, as the Government pushes ahead with its legislation to scrap Te Aka Whai Ora. Parliament has gone into urgency to pass the bill through all… Audio

Legislation scrapping Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori Health Authority, is being described as a nail in the coffin for health equity.

As part of its 100-day plan, the coalition government will today… Audio

What is the point of the Waitangi Tribunal if it doesn't have the power to stop a government that appears to be acting against the interests of Māori?  Audio

A Maori advocate is accusing the government of creating an excuse to criminalise Māori with its new laws banning gang patches.

Legislation to be introduced this week will also give police powers to… Audio

An initiative to help Māori into the health workforce is being credited with almost doubling the proportion of tangata whenua employed at the Taranaki District Health Board while at the same time… Audio

In April New Zealand Opera will hold a week long wananga at Waikato University with an open invitation to Aotearoa's story tellers to embrace one of music's most challenging genres. Could one of them… Audio

A group of senior government ministers will meet Tai Rāwhiti iwi, business, council and community leaders this morning in a summit to break down the challenges facing the region.

More than 100 people… Audio

It's taken more than fifty years to get off the ground, but approval's finally been granted for a community marae to be built on Auckland's Te Atatū peninsula.

The plot of land beside the… Audio

Locals are heartbroken and angry after the theives stole sacred items from Otakeho in Taranaki. Tapu Sperm whale bones and teeth were stolen this month from a shed that belongs to the Ngati Haua hapu… Audio

Demand for intensive week-long full immersion Reo courses has soared, with a record number held in the last year.

Thousands of students attend these Kura Reo, but as the Government cuts budgets and… Audio

Deidre Brown, a professor at Auckland University's School of architecture, went on an 8 year hunt for the lost whakairo rakau. The missing whakairo rakau were first acquired by the Christchurch… Audio

This week on Mapuna we speak with Ngati Hau, Ngati Kaharau kaikorero Dallas King of Omanaia. She discusses the story of the Omanaia River, a story that she presented at the commemorations at Mangungu… Audio

The epic Te Arawa legend of Hatupatu and the bird woman Kurungaituku is centre stage at the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts. Audio