Donna Kerridge

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

It's been decades in the making, but there will be major changes to the way we regulate medicines, medical devices and natural health products.  Audio

It's karaka berry season at the moment. They're highly poisonous, including to your pets, so you need to be on high alert around this time of year. But Maori learned how to process the kernal so… Audio

Work is underway to create a system that gives better legal protection for traditional Māori medicine.

But those who practise rongoā Māori are worried doing so will cause more harm than good. 

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For Donna Kerridge the Waitakere ranges are the 'lungs' of Auckland and it needs to be looked after, as a practitioner of Rongoā Māori she says everyone needs to be responsible for the taiao. Audio