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Award-winning Māori music artist, MAAKA, has penned a new waiata to mark a return to the performance stage and to renew his commitment to his craft and fans. With a fresh sound and a new message, MAAKA releases his track, Kei Hea , hot on the heels ...

Meet the residents: Huia Books publisher Eboni Waitere Lucy Revill’s The Residents is a blog about daily life in Wellington that has morphed into a stylish, low-key coffee-table book featuring interviews and photographic portraits of 38 Wellingtonians. In this extract, Revill profiles Eboni Waitere, owner and executive director of Huia Publishers. The Residents features names like Monique Fiso and Jacinda Ardern, a bunch of artists and musos, a cobbler, a professor, a parliamentary services ...

Pēpi steps: Two mothers on creating taonga with te reo Māori Essays Celebrating a new series of the beloved Reo Pēpi bilingual board books, we have essays from Kitty Brown (Ngāi Tahu) who creates the books with her cousin Kirsten Parkinson, and Helen Steemson, a Pākehā mum determined to share te reo with her Māori son.  Kitty Brown Recently, my two-year-old spoke her first words in te reo Māori. I was elated. However, not long afterward her cognitive development surpassed my reo skills...