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1:10 PM.Shane Cotton is an award winning and internationally acclaimed Maori artist with a new show opening today in Tamaki Makaurau. Painting was always his first love and we explore how he fused that with a… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.The award winning and internationally acclaimed Maori artist, Shane Cotton, opens a new show in Tamaki Makaurau this weekend. His new paintings are billed as a "collision of Indigenous and European… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Over the past 50 years Professor Ngahuia te Awekotuku has been one of the most influential Maori academics and writers. In 1981 she became the first Maori woman to receive a PHD from a New Zealand… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Over the past 50 years Professor Ngahuia te Awekotuku has been one of the most influential Maori academics and writers. In 1981 she became the first Maori woman to receive a PHD from a New Zealand… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Over the past 50 years Emeritus Professor Ngahuia te Awekotuku has been one of the most influential Maori academics and writers. In 1981 she became the first Maori woman to receive a PHD from a New… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Portia Woodman-Wickliffe conquered every summit in rugby union and is about to continue her career in Japan. The olymic gold medallist and world cup winner traces her career from her early years in… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.As Maori Language Week draws to a close Mapuna hosts Anton Matthews at RNZ National's studios in Otautahi-Christchurch. He's the Director of Hustle group, a whanau owned business which operates a… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.As Maori Language Week draws to a close Mapuna hosts Anton Matthews at RNZ National's studios in Otautahi- Christchurch. He's the Director of Hustle group, a whanau owned business which operates a… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.At just 45 years of age Justin Tipa's election as the Kaiwhakahaere of Ngai Tahu last year marked a generational shift in the iwi's top leadership. How is he faring at the helm with around two billion… Read more Audio

12:20 PM.Since Ngai Tahu's 1998 Treaty settlement with the Crown worth 170-million dollars it now controls assets worth around two billion dollars, including fisheries, forestry, tourism and property. Last… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Roimata Smail has spent twenty years as a human rights and public law barrister and has represented many claimants to the Waitangi Tribunal. She's also written a best selling book called Understanding… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Rewi McLay is the lead singer and guitarist for the Maori rock band Kiko. He talks about their new single Haurua and his varied artistic talents which included set design work on the recent feature… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.This week a Maori business delegation returned from a trip to China where they went to look at the digital storytelling sector. The group comprised of 10 Maori business leaders and their journey… Read more Audio