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12:10 PM.Mapuna is at Waipapa Taumata Rau, Auckland University, where this morning was the official blessing of Tutahi Tonu Marae which has been shifted from the Epsom campus where it had been for 40 years… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.This week Te Whariki Manawahine o Hauraki, Hauraki Women's Refuge, released a report detailing the struggles wahine Maori face in Hauraki to get access to housing, with some being forced to sleep in… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.This week Julian Wilcox talks to the executive director of the Atamira dance company, Marama Lloyd.  Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Waipapa Taumata Rau, Auckland University has opened a new space dedicated to speaking Te Reo Māori. ReoSpace was opened on Wednesday at Te Tumu Herenga, the university's library. Kaiārahi and PhD… Read more Audio

12:13 PM.Ten Māori business leaders in the game development and digital storytelling sectors are on their way to China for an in-depth look at the country's booming digital and business sector. Organised by… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Maori bass baritone Morgan Andrew King is one of a handful of opera singers who will compete in the Lexus Song Quest in Wellington at the end of this month. He's currently studying a postgraduate… Read more Audio

12:08 PM.The play Scenes from the Climate Era by Australian playwright David Finnegan is being adapted for New Zealand audiences. It will have a cast of five, who will play 43 different characters from… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Michael Jonathan has directed the major motion picture, Ka Whawhai Tonu, about the Battle of Orakau in 1864. The film features direct descendants of Maori who fought at Orakau and a promising young… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Mapuna is at the Auckland offices of the leading Maori architect, Nicholas Dalton, and the firm he founded, TOA. Among its many achievements are the award winning Te Taumata O Kupe, the multi-coloured… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Te Ohorere Williams is a classical soprano who recently graduated with a Masters of Music at Auckland University. She was first drawn to opera while watching a performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Julian Wilcox hosts a korero about moteatea - chanted song poetry - which will feature in a new podcast series to be hosted by Crystal Edwards and will also include Ngahiwi Apanui Barr, who's the… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Ngai Tahu academic Matthew Scobie has co-written a new book with Anna Sturman from the University of Sydney, called The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation in which they write 'the future of… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Tauranga has been without an elected council for four years and earlier this week singer-songwriter Ria Hall put her hat in the ring for the position of Mayor. Those elected this year will serve for… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Last week saw the 160th anniversary of the battle of Pukehinahina Gate Pā and coinciding with the anniversary was the release of the documentary NZ Wars Stories of Tauranga Moana the 5th in a series… Read more Audio