Te Ao Māori

Descendants of the Tūhoe prophet Rua Kēnana are backing proposed changes to the pardon Bill, which would see the Crown take greater responsibility for the unlawful conviction of their ancestor.

The… Audio

Hawke's Bay hapū are at loggerheads with Wairoa District Council over the closure of a bridge which forces them to carry bodies nearly a kilometre on foot for burial at their urupā.

Patangata Bridge… Audio

The repair of the only bridge offering vehicle access to three Urupa near Wairoa hangs in the balance after the district council deemed it structurally unsafe. Patangata Bridge was closed to cars in… Audio

The timing of the launch of the new Māori policing strategy - which has the same name of one launched seven years ago that achieved nothing - has raised eyebrows. Audio

An enterprising book in Te Reo and English teaching the important Maori concepts of kaitiakitanga and rahui is just going into its second print run. Te haerenga o Piri - Piri's Adventure - is a… Audio

Māori teachers and parents are calling for the qualifications authority to change the NCEA timetable to stop disadvantaging Te Reo Māori students.

Many of them are sitting in an exam room for six… Audio

Māori leaders are alarmed that armed police squads set up to tackle serious crime will also deal with low-level offending.

They say it was overkill that armed officers in Hamilton stopped a car and… Audio

National MP Joanne Hayes reckons benefit cuts could be good for Māori. She says cutting benefits could strengthen whānau - if they're resourceful. Her comments have been condemned by the Māori… Audio

Te Ahi Kaa is with revered orator and Māori language exponent, Professor Pou Temara who discusses the evolution of Māori customary practices as seen on the marae. The marae, a complex of buildings… Audio

Maori are used to having their experience captured by others. Think of the photographs of Ans Westra and Marti Friedlander. But Chevron Hassett is a young Maori artist taking the camera into his own… Audio, Gallery

More than 200 people gathered at a Greytown marae as Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa celebrated the first person from their iwi to be knighted.

Sir Kim Workman was knighted in the New Year Honours, and… Video, Audio

"Shut it down" - that's the message to Oranga Tamariki from a prominent Māori leader.

The chair of the Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency,  Merepeka Raukawa-Tait, says Oranga Tamiriki has a toxic… Video, Audio

Earlier this week we talked to Matthew Hooton about teaching history in New Zealand, and the importance of story-telling in keeping young people interested and engaged. Audio

An image of one of Aotearoa's most famous kuia, Te Pāea Hinerangi, will feature at this weekend's U2 concerts in Auckland. While the band performs their song 'Últra Violet (Light My Way)', Te Pāea -… Audio

Five months after the distinctive Wellington marae Tapu te Ranga burnt to the ground, the clean up is making slow progress. There's still a large pile of ash and rubble where the multistoried… Audio

Oranga Tamariki is making immediate changes to the way children are taken into state care after a damming report into an attempt to remove a baby from a Hawke's Bay mother.

The Ministry has… Video, Audio

The Police have set an ambitious new goal to reduce the rate of re-offending among Māori by 25 percent in the next five years.

It's one of many targets set out in their new Māori strategy - Te… Audio

An iwi leader is praising the relationship between Māori and the police saying it's made huge strides forward. Rahui Papa from Waikato Tainui was at the launch of the new police strategy to cut… Audio

The first fire safety programme in te reo Māori for children is significantly reducing the number of emergency call outs in one of Napier's most vulnerable suburbs.

Developed by a local firefighter… Video, Audio