Te Ao Māori

It is deadline day for councils throughout the country to approve Māori wards - if they are to be in place before next year's local body elections. Māori wards are a mechanism to correct the… Audio

The government's calling it unprecedented - more than a billion dollars of targeted funding for Māori in the Budget.

Health and housing are at the top of the list but there's one complaint,  Whānau… Audio

A push to revive te reo Māori at the top of South Island has been taking place in Blenheim. The sold out two day language-symposium - Te Kaiaotanga o Te Reo - encourages and helps whānau to learn te… Audio

Māori will be the focus of this country's first trial of screening for lung cancer.

It's been made possible by a grant of nearly $2 million from the Health Research Council and the Global Alliance… Audio

Revitalising te reo Māori in a region with no native speakers starts with individual whānau. 

That's the message being delivered to a sold-out audience of almost 500 people at Marlborough's first… Audio

A flotilla of waka have arrived at Tauranga Harbour - kicking off the first national waka hourua festival. These are the traditional double-hulled canoes on which people explored the Pacific Ocean and… Audio

The government has pumped $200 million into Māori job initiatives over the last year - and lifting Māori incomes and skills is one of the priorities for Thursday's Budget.

Iwi and Māori business' say… Audio

There were scenes of jubilation in Hastings yesterday after the council decided to add Māori wards for next year's local body elections.

But just a few hours earlier in twin city Napier it was a… Audio

Ngāi Tahu says Judith Collins' claim the government plans to transfer all South Island water infrastructure to a new entity half-owned by the Iwi is just plain wrong.

Dr Te Maire Tau, chairman of… Audio

The Ahuwhenua Young Maori Farmer Award was given out on Friday, the award is to recognise talented young Maori farmers and growers and to encourage Young Maori to think of farming as a career. Quinn… Audio

Producer Justine Murray visits Maanu Paul at his home in Ohope Beach where he spins a few yarns about growing up with his grandmothers, his interpretation of the maramataka, and how he snuffed out a… Audio

The Council of Medical Colleges in New Zealand and Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa have just released a report on the experience of Māori doctors training in Aotearoa. Jesse speaks to Dr. Rachelle Love and Dr… Audio

Some groundbreaking research has dated kūmara in New Zealand back to the 15th century, lining scientific evidence up with mātauraka Māori. The excavation of an ancient kūmara pit just north of Dunedin… Audio

The Teaching Council is urging teachers to confront racism with a campaign it says some might find scary.

The Unteach Racism programme aims to help teachers identify racism and address it.

It says… Audio

Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi provided the flashpoint moment in a heated day in parliament yesterday - ejected from the House for taking aim at what he called "racist" rhetoric from the… Audio

The latest blow up over race relations in Parliament has raised the question - can MPs call each other racist in the House?

Speaker Trevor Mallard says no, but MPs can describe policies and even… Audio

Hundreds of people marched to the Manawatū District Council buildings in Feilding today to protest against the council kicking the can down the road on Māori representation.

The council voted last… Audio

Soil sovereignty is a kaupapa Māori approach to organic farming, with a view that soil is a relation or a living tāonga and not a commodity. Dr Jessica Hutchings talks about her maara kai on her… Audio