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DHB blind on how Maori communities access services 15 Dec 2020 15:48 PM More Related Stories Related Podcast Bay of Plenty District Health Board is keen to work more closely with Māori communities to improve health outcomes. It has received almost $300,000 in collaboration grants from the Health Research Council for a series of projects to integrate technology, promote wellbeing among Māori, and develop skills in kaupapa Māori research methods. Research manager Charlie Stratton says they're looking for evidence that will improve delivery of services, especially for Māori and rural c...

Air Ruatoria set for take off 15 Dec 2020 15:48 PM More Related Stories Related Podcast A Ngāti Porou pilot wants to give his fellow Natis a bird’s eye view of their rohe. Mahanga Maru is launching Air Ruatōria, based at the East Coast settlement’s small aerodrome. He believes there will be interest in scenic flights not just from tourists but from his relatives who want a closer view of Hikurangi. "You head up the Tapuaeroa Valley, where there are a number of smaller maunga. The flight will proceed around the northern side of (Hikurangi) and round the back where from our perspect...

Teacher to world Rose Pere dies 14 Dec 2020 09:09 AM Photo: Dr Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere. More Related Stories Related Podcast Māori educationalist Rangimarie Te Turuki Arikirangi Rose Pere, who developed an international reputation for upholding and sharing indigenous knowledge, has died aged 83. Her Facebook page announced Dr Pere, who was awarded an honorary doctorate by Victoria University in 1996, has left this physical world to journey onwards. Dr Pere, from Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Ruapani, and Ngāti Kahungunu, was raised in Waikaremoana by her grandparents. She taught from p...

Mau Whenua shocked by loss of Wingnut welfare 11 Dec 2020 17:03 PM More Related Stories Related Podcast A member of a group trying to block an iwi-backed development at Wellington’s Shelly Bay says the loss of litigation funding from filmmaker Sir Peter Jackson’s Wingnut Productions was a shock. Anaru Mepham says Mau Whenua continues to occupy the former defence force base and is looking for ways to raise the $2.2 million needed to fight the case in the High Court next March. Mau Whenua believes Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust had no right to sell the land, which it bought fo...

Love of reo drove Maori media champion 11 Dec 2020 17:03 PM More Related Stories Related Podcast One of the judges of Massey’s University’s Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Journalism and Broadcasting Awards says there was unanimous approval of the winner of the lifetime achievement award as soon as his name came up. Te Tohu a Tanara Whairiri Kitawhiti Ngata went to the late Huirangi Waikerepuru, the founding chair of Ngā Kaiwhakapūmau i te Reo Māori, the Wellington Māori Language Board, who led language, broadcasting and spectrum claims. Hineani Melbourne says the Taranaki educator, who d...