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12:12 PM.Reni Wereta-Gargiulo has won the Supreme Award at the Maori Businesswoman Awards with her business KiwiKai Nelson. Inspired by whanau recipes around kai moana she tells the story behind its success. Audio

12:40 PM.Internationally acclaimed architect Anthony Hoete is helping to revive ancient Māori construction methods with the aim of rebuilding a historic wharenui destroyed in the Napier earthquake of 1931… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.What will the future of the work look like for Māori, and the shifts and skills required to give Māori greater access and opportunity in the future workforce. Dr Eruera Tarena is Executive Director of… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.If you're keen to experience Maori theatre but can't get to one, then don't worry because some Auckland based performers are about to launch a new digital theatre than can be accessed across the motu… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.A major study which looks at making blood donations fairer for gay, bisexual, takatapui men is almost finished. Led by the University of Auckland in partnership with Otago University, researchers want… Read more Audio

12:08 PM.How bad is the resourcing gap between the Crown and claimants before the Waitangi Tribunal? This week some of the Tribunal's hearings focused on the organisation itself and the difficulties some Maori… Read more Audio

12:56 PM.We end today's programme with some Te Arawa magic, what Julian Wilcox described as "the whakaeke that changed the game." It tells the story of Houmaitawhiti, father of Tamatekapua, the captain of the… Read more Audio

12:50 PM.The best of Northland rugby league is on display this weekend, with a new competition hoping to get more kotiro and wahine playing the sport. In a region mad about the sport, it's the first… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Rob Thorne has spent more than twenty years as a noted taonga puoro practitioner, mentored by the likes of Hirni Melbourne and Richard Nunns. But his latest project is something of a coming together… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.After a big week at the Pacific Islands Forum Summit we speak to someone who's been in the game for decades, former president of Kiribati Anote Tong. The PIF was formed 51 years ago as independence… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.The Contemporary Māori Dance Company, Atamira, is back with its first live performances since last year's Covid-19 lockdown. One of its offerings is a virtual reality performance called Tomo. Sean… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Despite its proud history, its contribution to the international game, and the respect of other proud rugby nations, questions are still raised about a rugby team dedicated to Maori only. And further… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.Chanel Clarke led the five-year Te Awe collections readiness project at Auckland War Memorial Museum which reorganised and improved the care of the 10,000-plus taonga in the Museum's care. This week… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.The Government has announced a new Tangata Whenua Ministerial Advisory Group to support the government's 25-year strategy to end family and sexual violence. Known as Te Aorerekura, the strategy was… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.After 18 months of preparation yesterday Matariki was launched as a public holiday for the first time. Mapuna's presenter Julian Wilcox and RNZ National's Maori News Director Mani Dunlop co-hosted… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.What is kaitiakitanga, guardianship, and how important is it in our communities? Xena Tautari is currently studying for her doctorate at Te Whare Wanganga o Awanuiarangi and says in the Hokianga… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.After the body of Tommy Murray was taken back to his home marae against his wife's wishes Mapuna takes a look at tono tupapaku. Retrieving a loved one back to their whanau at home to be buried… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Wellington Museum has launched Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a new exhibition exploring the natural and cultural landscape of Wellington's history. A highlight is the carpet flooring which maps out the city in… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Does the name Aotearoa truly apply to all of new Zealand and how appropriate would the name change be? Dr Hana O'Regan of Ngai Tahu is a member of the Waitangi Tribunal and is the CEO of CORE… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.What's the history behind the name Aotearoa following the Maori Party's petition to officially change our country's name to Aotearoa. Who gave the name Aotearoa in the first place? Haami Piripi is… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.With the first celebration of Matariki as a public holiday just weeks away one of Aotearoa's most prominent writers, Witi Ihimaera, has written a new children's book about Matariki, Te Kokorangi, The… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.This week the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies hosted a summit in Queensland which was attended by a thousand delegates from across Australia including the new… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Australia's new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said recently "we will be advancing the need to have constitutional recognition of First Nations people, including a Voice to Parliament that is… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Rohm Dixon is head student at Rotorua Boys High School and has just won a Te Ara a Kupe Beaton Scholarship worth 25-thousand dollars to help him get into one of the world's top universities. At this… Read more Audio

12:13 PM.In 1822 about 3000 Ngapuhi warriors laid siege to Matakitaki Pa in Waikato. Ngapuhi were armed with muskets which many Waikato Maori had never encountered before. Historian Dr Tom Roa recounts the… Read more Audio