Naida Glavish

It's been 40 years since Dame Naida won the right to greet people with 'kia ora' while working as a toll operator for the New Zealand Post Office. Audio

The government has partially walked back comments that it's looking to put a stop to bonuses for public servants proficient in te reo Māori. Public Services Minister Nicola Willis told RNZ she was… Audio

Prominent Northland kuia and controversial campaigner for Māori rights, Titewhai Harawira, has died aged 90.

The proud matriarch of a close-knit family she was heavily involved in Māori activism with… Audio

Protesters are occupying the pa site of Mataharehare in the Auckland suburb of Parnell, despite the city being at Covid-19 alert level 3 restrictions. 

Occupants have set up tents and erected signage… Video, Audio

A high profile Māori leader is thinking about occupying an Auckland park to stop construction of a controversial Erebus memorial.

Two hundred and fifty seven people died when an Air New Zealand plane… Video, Audio

The Children's Commissioner is calling for urgent changes to Oranga Tamariki in the second of two reports, Te Kuku o te Manawa. With regard to Māori children, that would involve a transfer of… Audio

Hundreds of opponents to a massive landfill earmarked for Auckland's Dome Valley marched through the centre of the city today to present a petition to mayor Phil Goff. Te Aniwa Hurihanganui and video… Video, Audio

The government agency charged with caring for children has been given a D minus in a Māori-led review.

A new report from Whānau Ora says Oranga Tamariki needs a complete overhaul because of systemic… Audio

Fourteen armed police were used by Oranga Tamariki to uplift a five-month-old Māori baby from a solo mother.

That's a story in a report published this morning as a result of a Māori-led national… Audio

Auckland iwi say scattering the ashes of the dead in public places and waterways is abhorrent and they're calling for it to be banned. But the council says while it's happy to have wider discussions… Audio

The Waitematā District Health Board has doubled the number of Māori nurses in three years and is set to double its entire Māori workforce. Since 2015, the number of Māori staff members at the DHB has… Audio

Back in 1984, Naida Glavish was the toll operator who greeted incoming callers with two words, "kia ora" going against the grain. She says the general public didn't mind but her managers did. She… Audio