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12:30 PM.Henare Kingi (Ngapuhi) spent 25 years as an announcer at Wellington's Te Upoko o Te Ika, the first Maori radio station, from its founding days in the early 1980s. Over those decades, he became a… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.The deed of settlement for Taranaki Mounga was signed on Friday, setting out redress for the confiscation of the sacred mountain. Co-governance of the 30,000 hectare park will, according to Taranaki… Read more Audio

12:11 PM.Matariki Williams (Ngai Tuhoe, Ngati Whakaue, Ngati Hauiti, Taranaki) is a Whakatane-based writer, curator, and historian. She is the co-founder of and co-editor of ATE Journal of Maori Arts… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Matariki Williams (Ngai Tuhoe, Ngati Whakaue, Ngati Hauiti, Taranaki) is a Whakatane-based writer, curator, and historian. She is the co-founder and co-editor of ATE Journal of Maori Art alongside… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.The Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge have embedded Te Tiriti based co-governance and co-leadership throughout the entire organisation. Julian Wilcox talks to Rihi Te… Read more Audio

12:28 PM.The Threapeutics Products Bill closed submissions last week. The bill seeks to modernise the way medicines, medicinal devices and natural health products are regulated. The bill also includes rongoa… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.Arnold Lomax, of Muaupoko descent, is the Carpentry Cadetship coordinator at Weltec and he's put around 2,500 carpentry students into work. He has helps hundreds of young people, more than 50% of… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.Today on Mapuna we revisit the Battle of Orakau in the Waikato in 1864. More than 1400 British troops laid siege to the fortified pa at Orakau defended by a few hundred Maori. At one point the… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.International rugby league kicks off in Rotorua this afternoon with Maori men's and women's teams playing their indigenous counterparts from Australia. It's the first time Aotearoa has hosted the NRL… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.Professor Margaret Mutu says Aotearoa's current constitutional set up is fragile and needs transforming. She says there's nothing mysterious about constitutions which are simply a set of rules… Read more Audio

12:05 PM.Professor Margaret Mutu says Aotearoa's current constitutional set up is fragile and needs transforming. She says there's nothing mysterious about constitutions which are simply a set of rules… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Mapuna is at the Waitangi Treaty grounds for its first episode of 2023. Julian Wilcox and Mani Dunlop talk to actor, educator and broadcaster Waihoroi Shortland. He's also a prominent leader of Ngati… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Hema Wihongi is the daughter of Del Wihongi who was part of the group which in 1991 lodged a claim with the Waitangi Tribunal - often referred to as the flora and fauna claim - which deals with the… Read more Audio

12:47 PM.Hohepa 'the Hori' Thompson is the man behind the popular shop and art gallery HORI, located in Otaki, started in 2012, that dares to be different. Audio

12:45 PM.The Maori and Pasifika writers collective Maranga Mai is launching five new dramas by a group of women writers. Among them is Sherilee Kahui with her new work, Whakaaraara, about a young mother's… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.A major constitutional korero was held in Auckland over three days this week. Among the speakers was Supreme Court Justice Sir Joe Williams and a host of speakers from around the world including North… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.The story begins in the early 1800s in Peropero swamp, just north of Waitara. Taranaki was teetering on the edge of what would be almost a century of war, and Te Atiawa hapu moved quickly to dismantle… Read more Audio