Rangi Matamua

Matariki will be celebrated as a public holiday for just the second time tomorrow.

A lot has been done by communities across the motu to help lift the profile of the Maori New Year, but are New… Audio

The 2023 winner of the title Kiwibank New Zealand of the year, Te Pou Whakaare o Aotearoa was named as Professor Rangi Matamua (Ngai Tuhoe), who's been dubbed the man behind Matariki! He talks to… Audio

Friday will be Aotearoa's first ever Matariki public holiday to mark the start of the Maori new year. It's the most significant celebration in the traditional Maori calendar, occuring when the… Audio

Rangi Matamua has been helping people rediscover the connection that we all have to the cosmos, leading to what has been a dream for him: New Zealand celebrating Matariki as a public holiday, Friday… Video, Audio

Today, the bill to make Matariki a public holiday completed its passage in the house with its third reading and our first Matariki Holiday is June 24th this year.  Audio

Those behind a month-long challenge to speak as much Te Reo Māori as possible say they're staggered by how popular it's become. 

Today is the first day of Mahuru Māori, a month long celebration of… Audio

Tomorrow marks the first day of the Tangaroa Lunar phase of te tahi o Pipiri the first month of the new year. Which means the constellation Matariki is set to rise or Puanga to rise. Māni Dunlop… Audio

Matariki, the Māori New Year will be recognised with a public holiday for the first time in June next year, but it won't always fall on the same date. 

Māori astronomers will use the positioning of… Audio

Fearful, intimidated and ready to leave - is how one Māori professor is describing the current climate at the University of Waikato.

More than 2,500 people have signed an open letter calling for the… Audio

The Labour Party has promised to make Matariki a public holiday from 2022 if re-elected - in what would be the first new public holiday in nearly 50 years. Earlier this year nearly 35 thousand people… Audio

Celebrations kick off in Auckland tomorrow to celebrate Matariki, the start of the Maori New Year. The Maori New Year is known as a special time of year to be with family, friends, reflect on the past… Audio

Māori celebrities and experts are giving online tutorials to help thousands of children keep up their reo Māori during the Level Four lockdown. 

TV host Stacey Morrison, singer Pere Wihongi and… Audio

Professor Rangi Mātāmua talks about the 120-year-old book which has preserved his ancestors' knowledge of Māori astronomy. Audio

From this week the star cluster Pleiades known in Aotearoa as Matariki will become visible in the sky. Recognition of Matariki has grown considerably in popular culture here in New Zealand over the… Audio

"First the sun, then the moon, then the stars". Waikato University Professor Rangi Matamua shares Māori understandings of the night sky. He's curated the Waikato Museum's current exhibition Te Whānau… Audio