Leigh Marama Mc Lachlan

One person is dead and five people were injured when a man went on a stabbing rampage in Whanganui yesterday. Emergency services rushed to the carpark of the New World supermarket on Wicksteed Street… Audio

Insight - Summer listening. A few of your favourite Insight programmes from 2018 including; the babies damaged by alcohol, the rise of loneliness, banning mobile phones in classrooms and should Te Reo… Audio

On the 125th anniversary of women's suffrage, Leigh-Marama McLachlan explores what feminism means with Mani Dunlop, Donna Miles-Mojab, Tuiloma Lina-Jodi Samu and Farida Sultana.  Audio

Educators are calling for the Treaty of Waitangi to be taught accurately and in-depth in schools. But a lack of teaching material and underlying resistance is getting in the way. RNZ Māori news… Audio

The use of a Māori karakia in a Korean pop song has ramped up calls for the government to step up and protect Māori intellectual property. Some say that cultural appropriation of Māoritanga is getting… Audio

High tech digital pioneer Ian Taylor is bringing virtual reality to Otago prison to help inmates learn to read while they fix cars. It's estimated two thirds of prisoners need literacy and numeracy… Audio

The Taxpayers' Union is being slammed for saying the government shouldn't give koha because it's not-transparent and could be used to buy Māori support. But that's being shut down by politicians and… Audio

Fewer than a third of the country's prisons provide intensive Māori focused rehabilitation. That's despite Māori making up more than half of the country's prison population. But former prisoners told… Audio

A Serco prison officer is being labelled rude and anti-Maori for refusing to take his shoes off when he escorted an inmate on to an Auckland marae for the tangi of Herbs musician Tama Renata. The… Audio

Thousands of followers of the Ratana faith have gathered at Ratana Pa to remember their founder as a prophet, a healer and a Māori miracle man. Video, Audio

Iwi leaders, politicians and thousands of Ratana church followers have arrived at the pa near Whanganui to celebrate 100 years of the faith. RNZ Maori News Correspondent Leigh-Marama McLachlan… Video, Audio

People who have been in prison are lobbying to have their criminal records wiped if they keep out of trouble for seven years. They say employers turn them down because of their convictions, and it's… Audio

Waitangi Tribunal Judges are burnt out and overworked as the tribunal hits a decade without a funding boost. The chair Chief Judge Wilson Isaac says there's not enough funding for contemporary claims… Audio

Nearly a third of former prisoners go back to jail within their first year after release. Leigh-Marama McLachlan explores why so many Māori prisoners end up back inside. Video, Audio

A retired probation officer was left out of pocket when he exposed the Department of Corrections for not trying hard enough to reduce Māori reoffending. Now other Waitangi Tribunal claimants are… Audio

Māori people are eight times more likely to get tuberculosis than Pākehā, international expert Philip Hill says. Up to half of older Māori people may carry the dormant TB infection which could become… Audio