Te Ao Maori

A Tesla-driving city lawyer returns home to face her past in this new story by award-winning writer Shelley Burne-Field (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Rārua).

Maori tourism operators are welcoming more public awareness and interest in Matariki. Last year was the first time it was marked with a public holiday. This Friday Matariki events are organised across… Audio

Matariki will be celebrated as a public holiday for just the second time tomorrow.

A lot has been done by communities across the motu to help lift the profile of the Maori New Year, but are New… Audio

Whāngai i te hautapu - the cooking of kai connected to stars in the Matariki cluster - differ between iwi and across the motu, but each offers a food group relating to four of Matariki's stars.

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Back home now and if there's a particular type of food you're craving, chances are you'll find it on Auckland's Elliot Street. But it's status as Tamaki Makarau's culinary star isn't new. Elliott… Audio

Two cultures came together as as the Zambian women's football team was officially welcomed to Aotearoa with a powhiri at Turangawaewae Marae at Ngaruawahia. But even the combination of waiata and… Audio

Te Hiringa Mahara, the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission, is calling for an end to enforced mental health treatment.

A new report shows the standard six-month-long Compulsory Community Treatment… Audio

Te Pati Maori has made another big announcement as the 2023 election campaign heats up. They've revealed political veteran Merepeka Raukawa-Tait will contest the general electorate seat of Rotorua… Audio

Mapuna is in Kaitaia to meet Ngati Kuri kaumatua Bundy Waitai. Over decades he conducted research into Ngati Kuri's claims before the Waitangi Tribunal. Now he speaks out about the proposed sanctuary… Audio

Tīrama Mai, dubbed the ultimate Matariki light festival experience, is about to illuminate Ōtautahi Christchurch. More than 25 installations have been set up in the city's Victoria Square… Video, Audio

Non-Māori science teachers are questioning how they'll teach mātauranga Māori in a proposed new curriculum.

It follows a leaked draft of the new science curriculum - which caused a stir because it… Audio

A Whakapapa quilt exhibition is opening at the end of August in the Sami Museum in the Arctic circle in Oslo. Ron Te Kawa's the artist behind the work who was given an art residency by the… Audio

If you crack open a spiky kina shell you'll find what many people consider a seafood delicacy - the roe. But over fishing has resulted in a massive increase in kina, leading to kina barrens - areas… Audio

Taua Papatua is a Master Carver, who learnt his skills the "old school way" from his dad in the Cook Islands. He's going to share his skills with the students at Ascot Community School, and they're… Audio

Media producers Kimiora Kaire-Melbourne and Te Aorere Pewhairangi are proof that total immersion learning in te reo Māori can be a springboard to crafting great careers. 

To politics now, and we're welcoming Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi to First Up this morning, to join our regular catch-up with political leaders. Te Pāti Māori has been in the headlines this… Audio

Nathan Pohio, Waitaha, Kati Mamoe, and Ngai Tahu, is the Senior Curator Maori Art at Toi o Tamaki, Auckland Art Gallery and is an artist working in video and other photographic media. He says Toi o… Audio

If you have something to say about bilingual road signs, the final deadline for submissions is 5pm this afternoon.

Waka Kotahi and Te Mātawai have a package of 94 bilingual traffic signs they… Audio

Invercargill's mayor Nobby Clark has been lambasted by local iwi over his attitude towards giving civic buildings a Māori as well as an English name.

At a fiery meeting yesterday he put forward a… Audio