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Labour, Te Pāti Māori in tight race for Te Tai Hauāuru
19 Sep 2023Soraya Peke-Mason holds a slim lead in the electorate contest over the Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer in a new poll released tonight.
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Mahuru Māori: Month for speaking te reo returns for 2023
16 Sep 2023Mahuru Māori, the month-long kaupapa aiming at normalising te reo in everyday, situations is back for 2023.
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'We are hoping to wrap our pēpi in their culture from birth'
15 Sep 2023Last year Joelle Holland invested all of the money she had saved for a home deposit and put it into a baby product business called Hawaiiki Pēpi.
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Community group opposes concreting in creek where eel live
15 Sep 2023Plans to concrete in one of the last creeks in Auckland's Te Atatū Peninsula to turn it into a stormwater pipe are being questioned by a community group.
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Māori Language Commission believes NZ can surpass 1 million speakers
15 Sep 2023Demand for te reo courses has surged over the past few years, but teachers and students still face some challenges. Audio
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Taonga species planted at Ruatōria aerodrome to increase flood protection
15 Sep 2023Two thousand native trees have been planted by Ruatōria locals to protect their aerodrome from flooding.
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Miriama McDowell: 'Te reo Māori was calling me'
14 Sep 2023Playing a prominent Māori leader on screen has prompted successful Kiwi actor Miriama McDowell to turn her back on her career in favour of learning te reo Māori.
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How Māori are keeping te reo flourishing overseas
With podcasts, online classes, kapa haka and kōhanga reo all around the world, whānau living overseas are doing their best to keep te wiki o te reo Māori thriving. Video
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Tearepa Kahi: 'I want to normalise te reo Māori'
13 Sep 2023The director of Muru, New Zealand's highest grossing film of 2022, says it has helped normalise and showcase the unique te reo Māori dialect spoken by the people of Tūhoe.
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Whakamana Whānau programme boosts Māori and Pasifika health workforce
11 Sep 2023A pathway into work in health for Māori and Pasifika has been so successful, whānau and friends of participants are signing up too.
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Kruze Tangira: 'I now feel more confident about being Māori'
12 Sep 2023Two years ago, Kruze Tangira could only read his pepeha off his phone. Now he's building a new career as a TV presenter on daily Māori news show Te Karere.
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'Only eight people are fluent in my tribe': US scholar inspired by te reo learning
11 Sep 2023Experiencing the revitalisation of te reo Māori in Aotearoa is inspiring a Native American scholar battling to save her own indigenous language from extinction.
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Show us what you're doing for Māori Language Week - Commissioner
11 Sep 2023The Māori Language Commissioner hopes more people will take part in a special Māori Language Week moment on Thursday at midday. Audio
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The battle for Te Tai Hauāuru: Three wāhine MPs contest the seat
11 Sep 2023With the incumbent opting to go list-only after being elected Parliament's Speaker, the battle for the electorate has been flung wide open.
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'Word bank' of rejected te reo Māori street names not seen as helpful
11 Sep 2023An idea to "word bank" rejected Māori street names for developers to "pluck" from when building future subdivisions misses the point, says an iwi still waiting on tohutō promised two years ago.
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'Crying maunga' inspires Cyclone Gabrielle relief song
10 Sep 2023A Hawke's Bay-based singer-songwriter has penned a tune to uplift those in the throes of cyclone recovery and raise money for the cause.
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Auckland Council hopes for more submissions from Māori on seats
8 Sep 2023Consultation is currently open for submissions on whether to create Māori seats but Māori voices has - so far - been low. Audio
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Council vote to change Sonning Carpark name to Opoia Paa
7 Sep 2023Sonning Carpark in Hamilton will now be called Opoia Paa following a vote by Hamilton City Council today.
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South Wairarapa council to discuss establishing Māori ward
7 Sep 2023South Wairarapa District Council is having conversations about establishing a Māori ward in the district.
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National would demote Māori health boards
5 Sep 2023A National-led government would demote the Māori partnership boards which currently have a deciding say over regional health plans.
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On the campaign trail in Ikaroa-Rāwhiti
6 Sep 2023The race for East Coast electorate Ikaroa-Rāwhiti was flung wide open after Meka Whaitiri's shock defection to Te Pāti Māori. Audio
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Wide-ranging benefits from post-cyclone tree clean-up
6 Sep 2023A iwi-led scheme to clean up and process trees damaged during Cyclone Gabrielle in Northland aims to create jobs, reduce the impact of future storms and provide firewood for low-income families.
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Lost Tribe Aotearoa releases its first ever te reo Māori waiata
2 Sep 2023Band members are all at different stages of their te reo journey and vocalist Ben Aves is hopeful that the waiata will help them continue it.
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'Undefeated men in a defeated army' - Retracing the footsteps of the 28th Māori Battalion
2 Sep 2023RNZ visits the Greek island of Crete to delve into the battle of 1941 which pitted New Zealand, Australian and British troops against elite paratroopers from Nazi Germany. Audio
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