Te Ahi Kaa

There is both a serious and fun side to the career of Dr Anthony Ansley Ruakere, better known as Dr Tony Ruakere. There's the hitch-hiking trips he made from Taranaki to Dunedin to attend Medical… Read more Audio

Mā Whero, Mā Pango, Ka oti ai te mahi. With Co-operation the work shall be completed. This weeks whakatāuki is explained by Zoey Martin-Hawke nō Ngāti Paoa, Ngāti Hako. Read more Audio

Addressing childhood sexual abuse has not been easy for musician Ruia Aperahama. Yet he's done it and in the process is undergoing great healing. Audio

On August 22, 2014 Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson delivered an apology on behalf of the crown to Tūhoe thus bringing to a close the Tūhoe Settlement as reached through a Waitangi… Read more Audio

Two businesses in the isolated communities of Ruatahuna are proving successful in creating employment and utilising the area's natural resource. Audio

Voyaging waka Hōkule'a and Hikianalia are sailing from nation to nation highlighting the dire state of the oceans. Maraea Rakuraku is with two of its crew members Kat Lobendahn and Moani Heimuli. Audio

The Madang Wansolwara Dance gathering in West Papua in September was an opportunity to meet with Pacific nations on a creative and political level. It was also an opportunity for University lecturer… Read more Audio

Maraea Rakuraku is in discussion with Alice Te Punga Somerville author of Once were Pacific; Māori connections to the Pacific (2012) about the dynamics of Māori enjoy with Pacific and Pasifika. Audio

Continuing to focus on the Māori Pākehā relationship without considering the dynamic between other indigenous peoples does a disservice to Māori according to Indigenous Arts Curator and commentator… Read more Audio

In the second to last episode of Te Ahi Kaa for 2014, Justine Murray features a few of her favourite stories produced this year, that includes the mass Haka Powhiri to commemorate 150 years since the… Read more Audio

Parihaka was a thriving, entrepreneurial and peaceful community, led by  Prophets Tohu Kākahi and Te Whiti o Rongomai during the 1870s. That all changed when, on 5th November, 1881 Parihaka was… Read more Audio

Dr Terry Ryan, Hemi te Hemi and Harry Westrupp have a shared interest in Māori Trade Training that was established in the 1950s and continued until the early 1980s. Dr Terry Ryan is well versed in… Read more Audio