Te Ao Maori

Saturday's rugby game between the Māori All Blacks and Samoa in Te Whanganui-a-Tara is more than just an on-field clash for many of the players.

While the game will be played without fans it will… Audio

A Ngāti Hine kaumātua says changes to tikanga allowing wāhine to speak at Waitangi won't be for the sake of Judith Collins. 

The National Party leader has vowed not to return to commemorations if she… Audio

A Northland-based Iwi is furious it wasn't consulted when the government formulated its Hauraki Gulf revitalisation plan - saying it's the second time in two years its Te Tiriti o Waitangi rights have… Audio

The government has unveiled its plan to better protect the Hauraki Gulf - Tiikapa Moana - for future generations. Successive reports in recent years have warned about the impact of overfishing… Audio

A Māori health advocate is calling for a separate "Māori ACC"  following the revelation that the scheme is biased against women, Māori and Pasifika.

The managing director of Te Kōhao Health, Lady… Audio

A clinical study getting underway in Rotorua and Christchurch will provide valuable information on how our the population responds to the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.

The study aims to enrol at… Audio

Signs in te reo in a Kāpiti Coast town have prompted a graffiti complaint to the council.

But the Ōtaki artist behind them says the real problem is racism. Video, Audio

The Waitangi National Trust is working towards a decision on whether women can speak on the paepae at Waitangi next year. Earlier this year, National's leader Judith Collins was not allowed to speak… Audio

Taonga puoro practitioner Rob Thorne (Ngati Tumutumu) is known for creating transcendent soundscapes by combining modern looping technology with traditional instruments made from stone, bone, shell… Audio

Tame Malcolm has always been captivated by te ngahere - the forest. Now, Malcolm advocates using customary Maori methods to get rid of pests and is the operations manager at Te Tira Whakamataki - a… Audio

Former Black Ferns captain Farah Palmer (Ngati Maniapoto, Waikato Tainui) was appointed as the deputy chair of Rugby NZ last month, making history as the first person to ever hold such a role within… Audio

More than 40 years after her mother's march to Parliament, the daughter of Dame Whina Cooper is leading calls to abandon the reclassification of huge amounts of land in Te Tai Tokerau.

About 1500… Audio

There will be a hikoi in Northland on Friday, where hundreds are expected at the Far North District Council office in Kaikohe in opposition to re-designating their whenua as Significant Natural Areas.

A hīkoi will this morning make its way to the Far North District Council offices in Kaikohe.

The march is in opposition to proposed SNA - or Significant Natural Area - land restrictions. 

On… Audio

The Far North District Council has agreed to halt progress on establishing a Significant Natural Area - but it won't stop a hikoi of more than a thousand people converging on the council office… Audio

A racist tirade left on the answerphone of one of the country's most pre-eminent Pacific academics has caused widespread shock - but little surprise.

Others working in the space say that while this… Audio

Iwi in Te-Matau-a-Māui are calling for the government to invest in their rohe so they can further develop housing to curb homelessness and invest in the future of their descendants.

This comes as the… Audio