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Providing news on Māori issues, Te Manu Korihi features four times each weekday, in Radio New Zealand National's leading news programmes Morning Report and Checkpoint. A longer weekly edition, Te Waonui, is broadcast on Sunday evenings.
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Matariki Williams: Maori Arts, ATE, and protest through art
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Matariki Williams (Ngai Tuhoe, Ngati Whakaue, Ngati Hauiti, Taranaki) is a Whakatane-based writer, curator, and historian. She is the co-founder of and co-editor of ATE Journal of Maori Arts, alongside Bridget Reweti, which was set up to create a space to talk about Maori art, from a Maori perspective. "It's just very apparent if you look through a…
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The Panel (Part One) with Victoria Maclennan and Simon Wilson
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Today on The Panel Wallace and panellists are joined by Victoria Law professor Dr Eddie Clark and Professor Brigid McNeill from the University of Canterbury and Better Start Literacy programme.
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Matariki Williams (Ngai Tuhoe, Ngati Whakaue, Ngati Hauiti, Taranaki) is a Whakatane-based writer, curator, and historian. She is the co-founder and co-editor of ATE Journal of Maori Art alongside Bridget Reweti. The journal was set up to create a space for conversations about Maori art from a Maori perspective. [picture id="4LBNG1Q_matarikiānd_jul…
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Children’s hymns feature in this week’s programme, along with a contemporary setting of Charles Wesley’s Love divine, all loves excelling and Graham Kendrick’s 20th century classic, The servant king.
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Playing Favourites with artist Judy Darragh
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Life-long creative Judy Darragh is known for her bright and brilliant use of colour and found materials as a sculptor, painter and jeweller. Not afraid to use plastic, Darragh wants us to reflect on how we treat the planet. An art teacher for much of her career, in 2022 Darragh received the Order of New Zealand Merit for her services to the arts. O…
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Life-long creative Judy Darragh is known for her bright and brilliant use of colour and found materials as a sculptor, painter and jeweller. Not afraid to use plastic, Darragh wants us to reflect on how we treat the plane
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Fire vs ice: volcanologist Graham Leonard on Tongariro
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Ruapehu, the largest active volcano in Aotearoa, and its neighbour Tongariro, are iconic mountains in the central North Island. They don't look like most other New Zealand volcanoes though - their rough, undulating cones more closely resemble those found in Iceland.
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Fire vs ice: volcanologist Graham Leonard on Tongariro
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Ruapehu, the largest active volcano in Aotearoa, and its neighbour Tongariro, are iconic mountains in the central North Island. They don't look like most other New Zealand volcanoes though - their rough, undulating cones more closely resemble those found in Iceland.
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National's policy aims to school Labour on education decline
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National's leader Christopher Luxon ditched Parliament for the playground this week, touring schools to sell his party's solution to declining student performance with a back-to-basics focus on literacy and numeracy. Teacher unions have criticised the plan, but the party was unlikely to ever get their backing - instead targeting concerned parents a…
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Jai Grewal: pickleball, the best sport you've never heard of
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You might not have heard of the sport of pickleball, but it's the fastest growing sport in America, and increasingly popular with older players in New Zealand.So big a deal, that on April 2 tennis icons Andre Agassi, John McEnroe, Andy Roddick and Michael Chang will be among those competing for $1 million in an inaugural Hollywood Pickleball Slam.…
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Jai Grewal: pickleball, the best sport you've never heard of
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You might not have heard of the sport of pickleball, but it's the fastest growing sport in America, and increasingly popular with older players in New Zealand.So big a deal, that on April 2 tennis icons Andre Agassi, John McEnroe, Andy Roddick and Michael Chang will be among those competing for $1 million in an inaugural Hollywood Pickleball Slam.…
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Author Bonnie Garmus on her debut bestseller "Lessons in Chemistry"
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Bonnie Garmus's debut novel Lessons in Chemistry has become a multi-million selling bestseller largely through word of mouth.The story concerns a American scientist who, sacked for being pregnant in 1955, takes revenge when she's hired to front a teatime cookery show. Stephen King has called it "the Catch 22 of early feminism."…
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Author Bonnie Garmus on her debut bestseller "Lessons in Chemistry"
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Bonnie Garmus's debut novel Lessons in Chemistry has become a multi-million selling bestseller largely through word of mouth.The story concerns a American scientist who, sacked for being pregnant in 1955, takes revenge when she's hired to front a teatime cookery show. Stephen King has called it "the Catch 22 of early feminism."…
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Dr Ellen Nelson: local hero who helped evacuate Afghan colleagues to NZ
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NZ Army leader Dr Ellen Nelson worked night and day for almost a year to help evacuate 563 Afghan Defence Force allies and their families after the country fell to the Taliban in 2021. Ellen Nelson is a finalist for Local Hero of the Year at the 2023 New Zealander of the Year Awards.
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Dr Ellen Nelson: local hero who helped evacuate Afghani colleagues to NZ
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NZ Army leader Dr Ellen Nelson worked night and day for almost a year to help evacuate 563 Afghan Defence Force allies and their families after the country fell to the Taliban in 2021. Ellen Nelson is a finalist for Local Hero of the Year at the 2023 New Zealander of the Year Awards.
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NZ Army leader Dr Ellen Nelson worked night and day for almost a year to help evacuate 563 Afghan Defence Force allies and their families after the country fell to the Taliban in 2021. Ellen Nelson is a finalist for Local Hero of the Year at the 2023 New Zealander of the Year Awards.
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Adharanand Finn: Zane Robertson and Kenyan running culture
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New Zealand runner and two-time Olympian Zane Robertson has been banned from all sport for eight years. Fellow runner, author and journalist Adharanand Finn raced with Robertson in Kenya in 2011 and interviewed him last year for his podcast The Way of the Runner.
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Adharanand Finn: Zane Robertson and Kenyan running culture
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New Zealand runner and two-time Olympian Zane Robertson has been banned from all sport for eight years. Fellow runner, author and journalist Adharanand Finn raced with Robertson in Kenya in 2011 and interviewed him last year for his podcast The Way of the Runner.
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RNZ Pacific News at 8am for March 25 2023
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RNZ Pacific News at 8am for March 25 2023
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News in Cook Islands Maori for 25 March 2023
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Pacific needs to stand up and pay attention to AUKUS - Dame Meg Taylor; 'Hope in the Pacific keeps dwindling due to climate inaction' - Greenpeace; Tonga PM pleased with Pacific Education Ministers conference; Pacific leaders selected for Dawn Raids scholarship programme; Talanoa with 'Red, White and Brass' film director Damon Fepulea'i.…
Pacific needs to stand up and pay attention to AUKUS - Dame Meg Taylor; 'Hope in the Pacific keeps dwindling due to climate inaction' - Greenpeace; Tonga PM pleased with Pacific Education Ministers conference; Pacific leaders selected for Dawn Raids scholarship programme; Talanoa with 'Red, White and Brass' film director Damon Fepulea'i.…
'Posie Parker normalises hatred towards queer people' - LGBTQ+ activist; NZ Pasifika leaders gather in Auckland for Pasifika futures conference; Vanuatu distributes dry rations for communities in worst-hit areas; PNG Government looks to increase its cabinet.
'Posie Parker normalises hatred towards queer people' - LGBTQ+ activist; NZ Pasifika leaders gather in Auckland for Pasifika futures conference; Vanuatu distributes dry rations for communities in worst-hit areas; PNG Government looks to increase its cabinet.
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NZ Pasifika leaders gather for Pasifika futures conference
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