Te Ao Māori

Politicians have emotionally presented the legislation pardoning the Tūhoe prophet Rua Kēnana for its first reading in Parliament today.

Hinematererangi Mackey-Pasene has grown up in Māori spaces her entire life, but now, she's having to adjust to life among the "minority" at university

An intellectual property rights expert says Air New Zealand applying to trademark its 'Kia Ora' logo is overreaching and "would be offensive to many Māori". Audio

These are the questions that the Māori Language Commission, Te Taura Whiri, and their translators are faced with as they ensure that te reo remains a living language, that evolves as the world…

Within the next three years, New Zealand history will be taught in all schools and kura, Jacinda Ardern announced while unveiling a plaque commemorating the New Zealand Wars. Audio

Loading Docs - Just weeks before his passing, Sir Hector Busby discusses a legacy of celestial navigation and waka carving, considering who will carry the knowledge after he's gone. Video

The country's best young orators have taken to the stage as part of the first day of the renowned Ngā Manu Kōrero competition.

The Māori Council has accused Air NZ of appropriating Māori culture for profit.

Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Hoani Waititi Marae won the 2019 Focus Prize at the Prime Minister's education excellence awards last night.

Te wiki o te reo Māori - Poriana Hinemoa Luke is determined to be the first one in her whānau to speak te reo Māori, but she's come along way from being whakamā, or embarrassed, about her identity.

The government has come under fire for its lack of Māori suicide prevention strategy and its barriers to Māori mental health service providers getting funded. Audio

Nearly 40 years since the first kōhanga reo opened its doors in Aotearoa, only half the number of centres remain, and enrolments are declining at an alarming rate.

The government plans to increase suicide prevention services in DHBs, provide more funding to hospital emergency departments and fund free counselling for 2,500 people bereaved by suicide.

Te wiki o te reo Māori - The reo revitalisation has made its way to Australia, with Māori language schools popping up across Australia, including a kōhanga reo in the middle of the outback.

Thousands of people have gathered in Wellington for the first of six parades to celebrate te wiki o te reo Māori - the biggest turnout since they started.

The Media Council has ruled that a published letter to the editor in the Gisborne Herald was an abusive comment and has upheld a complaint.

A Māori land trust is not giving up its fight to build a holiday park on indigenous freehold land in the Bay of Plenty, despite a petition strongly opposing the development.

Te wiki o te reo Māori - More than two years on from when bilingual towns were first proposed, the small Kāpiti Coast town of Ōtaki is carving its own path to becoming reo rua (bilingual). Audio

Te Papa's museum's chief executive Geraint Martin is stepping down at the end of the year.

Te wiki o te reo Māori - Tewaia Nuku was not allowed to learn te reo Māori at high school until her senior years because she was deemed too advanced.