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We're going to 'Māori up' Fortnum & Mason
Mapuna producer Tama Muru meets London based Ngati Raukawa chef Matt Burgess for a korero and a mean kai. Audio
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Creating pathways for Māori into STEM
11 Nov 2023Genevieve Doube (Kai Tahu), is a Resource Management Planner and the Pou Whakawhanake within Te Ahi Tūtata, the Māori business team at Beca, one of Asia… Audio
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Magic mushrooms with a social impact
11 Nov 2023As one of few Māori-born biotech businesses in Aotearoa, Rua Bioscience in Tairāwhiti is the only New Zealand-based medicinal cannabis company with an explicit… Audio
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CEO for the Kaupapa Māori and Cultural Communities at FENZ
4 Nov 2023This week on Māpuna we speak to Piki Thomas, the newly appointed deputy chief executive for the kaupapa Māori and cultural communities branch of Fire and… Audio
Saturday 25 November 2023
Social work award winner mentoring young Maori to success
Florence Tamehana is a student engagement adviser at MIT in Manukau. Two months ago, she won the Tangata-ō te whenua Practice Award at the Social Work Awards 2023. She works with troubled rangatahi to steer them towards educational success and has a wide breadth of personal experience to draw upon, 13 years in the army and her own traumatic experiences at high school in Taranaki.
Florence Tamehana won Tangata o te Whenua Social Practice Award at the recent Aotearoa NZ Association of Social Workers. Photo: SUPPLIED
Maori musician's drive to attract young talent to Otago
Musician David Harrison is keen to attract young Maori to Otago University's School of Performing Arts where he's a teaching fellow and mentor to emerging talent. He says the school has an outreach committee to try to lure more Maori students to the deep south. David Harrison says modern Maori music is in a good place, but he feels that popularity on social media to gain exposure means that some talent is being overlooked.
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