Te Ao Maori

Iwi leaders say the Māori Health Authority is being used as a political football. 

National is piling on the pressure, saying the government is creating a separatist system. 

The Māori Party say… Audio

How can end of life and bereavement care for Māori be improved? Wellington's Mary Potter Hospice has just held a symposium - Whetū i te Rangi - on the subject, the first of its kind. Vanessa Eldridge… Audio

More than one in five Pasifika mothers in New Zealand experience anxiety or depression during or soon after pregnancy - that's the highest rate of perinatal depression in the country.

But women of… Audio

A Māori charitable trust in Queenstown is accusing Bunnings Warehouse of wanting cultural performers on the cheap.

Mana Tāhuna says it was asked to do a dawn karakia and waiata to open a new store… Audio

Dr Morehu Mcdonald talks about his iwi Ngāti Hinerangi as part of his doctoral research. Audio

One of the key findings in the Waitangi Tribunal’s investigation into Oranga Tamariki has found the Crown “guilty of direct and sustained breaches of Māori Treaty rights”.

It condemns the state's… Video, Audio

The Waitangi inquiry is the fifth review into the removal practices of the troubled children's Ministry. The Office of the Children's Commission did its own review, and recommended full devolution of… Audio

The Waitangi Tribunal wants an independent Māori body to be set up, to eliminate the need for tamariki Māori to be in state care. The urgent inquiry by the Tribunal found there was a consistent… Audio

Sound historian Sarah Johnston discusses her research project into the wartime recordings from the New Zealand Mobile Broadcasting Unit that travelled with the New Zealand Division during World War… Audio

A landmark report into how Oranga Tamariki takes Māori children away from their families will be out today. 

The recommendations of the Waitangi Tribunal will be released at midday, following its… Audio

Changing tides, sinking sands and rocky outcrops have been labelled a life-threatening hazard for surfers who drive along the Northland coast to Ahipara's world-famous breaks.

Tangata whenua say the… Audio

Dr Rawiri McKree Jansen is an outspoken advocate for Maori health. The Auckland GP is clinical director and leader for service design and development with the National Hauora Coalition - a clinical… Audio

Hypocritical and a distraction - that's how some Māori health leaders have described National leader Judith Collins' comments that a Māori Health Authority is separatist.

Her party want to scrap it… Audio

A new report by leading Māori researchers says Māori and Pacific experts are being excluded from science advisory and other key decision-making roles. 

This has been particularly evident during the… Audio

Hundreds of teachers are not meeting a mandatory requirement to improve their knowledge of te reo and tikanga Māori.

The Teaching Council says it is taking a cautious approach to the rule, which… Audio