News & Inspiration
Your eyes and ears for reo Māori news and media. We share new stories daily so tune in to stay up-to-date with what's happening in the reo Māori space.

He maimai aroha: Anaru Robb

Can they cope with 'more than the odd kia ora'?
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Theia releases new album Te Kaahu
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Revealed: Four te reo Māori names proposed for City Rail Link stations

Wellington City Council commits to stronger focus on te reo and Māori history

Language app designed to spread the word
A te reo Māori app developed for Ashburton District Council staff is to be shared with the community, so others can learn more about local Māori language and protocols. The app also covers Tagalog (the primary language of the Philippines) and Samoan.

About all the Māori nonsense - a response from Māori Language Commissioner

Majority of NowNext survey respondents believe Māori culture and history is an important part of our national identity

The ongoing fight for Māori to school our own, our way
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New bilingual traffic signs for schools to replace English-only

Coming soon: te reo Māori courses for the public sector

Finding my real voice
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Te Matatini marks 50 years with album, book and web series
Canadian director's passion for indigenous languages, including te reo Māori
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Esteemed Māori leader Dr Moana Jackson passes away
His work on Māori and Indigenous rights has been an inspiration to many, using his knowledge and experience to help Māori and Pākehā understand the impacts of colonisation in Aotearoa.
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Inaugural writers festival to highlight Māori literature

Whakamāori - New show coming soon

Māori Television Celebrates 18 Years Of Telling Māori Stories | Scoop News
Māori Television reflect on how they have entertained and inspired audiences through the telling of Māori stories.

Māori Television at 18: Seeing Māori in the media opened up the pearly gates

Teen incorporating Māori culture into Shakespeare excited for Globe performance
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Troy Kingi confirms Matariki release for reo Māori album

The business founder, activist and writer pausing her award-winning career to learn te reo Māori fulltime

The Māori Language Commission paid tribute to the late leader, Tā Wira Gardiner

Whakapapa – there’s an app for that

Te Māngai Pāho and Octave announce new partnership for ReoAko.

A chat with... Te Karere's Derek Fox
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Te Karere turns 40: How it changed the voice of Aotearoa
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Ōtaki Surf Live Saving Club bilingual website easier to surf

From outrage to No 1 hits: how Māori musicians conquered the charts in their own language

Te Karere, New Zealand's first Māori language television show, is turning 40

Kura kaupapa founders go to Waitangi Tribunal in push for Māori Education Authority

Artist brings colour and te reo Māori to urban Nelson

Race relations commissioner calls for compulsory te reo Māori in schools

New Zealand’s Battle for te reo Māori: Call for Stories

Learn te reo Māori on-the-go with Mai i te Kākano

'Kōhanga kids are changing Māoridom' - Dame Iritana Tāwhiwhirangi

‘We were called the Nazis of te reo Māori' - Sir Pou Temara pays a price for excellence

New RNZ National show to focus on Māori talent and stories

Rob Ruha: The man who helped Tairāwhiti take over TikTok
Panga: Te reo Māori Wordle

Returning to my roots: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa’s te reo Māori journey

Wētā Workshop adds macrons to undo misuse of te reo Māori
Creators on TikTok elevating Māori culture and language
New course in Te Tairāwhiti to help implement te reo Maori into the cirruculum.

Sir Wira Gardiner on learning te reo Māori late in life

Shilo Kino: Learning Te reo Māori in the middle of a pandemic

Santa Speaks Te Reo: Write To Santa With NZ Post And Receive A Response In Te Reo – Ka Pai! | Scoop News

The pou tokomanawa in the whare: Bringing te reo to life in the places we live

Māori language campaign wins global communications prize
Author Keri Opai writes book for Māori disenfranchised from te reo
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First road traffic signs in Te Reo Māori – Taihoa, Haere - NZ Herald
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Magician wows audiences all in te reo Māori - NZ Herald

Auditions To Commence For The Maori Language Version Of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Iconic Film The Lion King | Scoop News

Two generations discuss their journeys with te reo Māori

Demand jumps for job applicants who can speak te reo Māori

Learning te Reo is a personal journey

Privilege and language trauma

Couple met learning te reo Māori, now its their son's first language

Samoan multilinguist shares inspiring story of learning te reo Māori

Te reo Māori and Welsh: Two indigenous languages, two stories of revival
HRC to stop hearing individual complaints on use of te reo Māori
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Māori Party launches petition to change official name of New Zealand to Aotearoa - NZ Herald
‘Nau mai te rekareka’: We’ve got some sexy reo Māori for you

‘35’ by Ka Hao feat Rob Ruha is the TikTok anthem of Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori

Kea Kids News: New video game features wahine Māori

Graphic designer a 'one wahine waka' taking te reo Māori into homes

More than a million said to take part in reo Māori moment

How famous New Zealand landmarks got their Māori place names

TikTok, Twitch new ‘vehicles’ for Māori creators to kōrero, ako te reo Māori

‘You’re not going to get a job in te reo Māori’: 3 people who proved this wrong
Today we are seeing the fruits of those sacrifices our tīpuna have made in order to save the language. Featuring Te Aorere Pewhairangi, Te Rauhiringa Brown and Hēmi Kelly.

More than 'mā te wā': How Air New Zealand is helping te reo Māori fly

Affirmations for when you need a reminder of your connection to te reo Māori

A short history of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori

A te reo Māori glossary for your home

Learning te reo Māori 'like going home', says fashion designer Kiri Nathan

'I'm beginning a journey': The inside story of Lorde's surprise mini-album in te reo Māori

Te reo Māori game gets native trees in the ground this lockdown

Popularity of te reo Māori challenge surprises organisers
"I looked at some of the other months, you know, you've got Dry July, No Junk June or whatever they are and then you've got Movember, and I thought: I'm gonna do one for te reo." Since then, Mahuru Māori has grown into something of a movement.

An Open Letter to Aotearoa - Professor Rawinia Higgins

Six60, Stan Walker, Anna Coddington and many others release new music in te reo
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Waiata Anthems: Anna Coddington's mission to normalise te reo Māori for her tamariki - NZ Herald
Anna Coddington has always been on a reo but said her children were the real 'catalyst'. The singer-songwriter is one of many New Zealand artists who have released a new single in te reo Māori for Waiata Anthems Week called Aho / Beams ft. Louis Baker...

Learning new poi each day in lockdown

Kiwis using lockdown to learn 'easy to access' Te Reo Māori

Te Nūtube Releases New Hit Reo Māori Single “Paki Mati” In Lockdown! | Scoop News

South Taranaki students help with reo Māori video to recruit Māori into trades

Learning the features of verbs in te reo

The wāhine Māori bringing te reo Māori to audiences through Korean pop music

A kaiako on the year's best te reo Māori books for children

Māori Language Moment 2021

Ngā Tohu o Matariki o te Tau: Māori excellence celebrated at this year's Matariki awards - NZ Herald

Teachers say learning te reo is making them better at their jobs

'It’s everything': 11 wāhine tell us about their relationship to te reo Māori

School Report: Kura kaupapa drive top te reo Māori marks up

Newshub's Oriini Kaipara on te reo, TV and racism in New Zealand

Frozen, The Lion King to be dubbed in te reo Māori

Calling in on The Godfather
"I’m good with anybody who makes the effort. I’ve learned other languages and they’ve been quite tolerant, too. So I believe that if the effort is sincere, then give them all the help they want." - Tā Tīmoti Karetū

A Māori Siri: Voice apps that recognise te reo Māori a possible future
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Masters study for te reo to launch in July, following national demand - NZ Herald
"The programme is about providing Māori language excellence for highly competent Māori language tauira." says kaiako, Pania Papa. The course is said to be very similar to Te Panekiretanga o te Reo, a top Māori language academy which closed its doors two years ago.

Album of songs will celebrate 50 years of Te Matatini

Matariki: A lot can change in a year - Shilo Kino

Pop-up cafe helps students gain barista and te reo Māori skills
Veteran Māori broadcaster stunned by pilot's perfect announcements in te reo

Trade training in Te Reo Māori launched in Waikato

Pop chart launches for te reo Māori songs

Artist calls out racism after te reo Māori sticker gets graffiti complaint

How learning te reo Māori helped me heal my mental health

Christchurch teen elevating te reo Māori usage - one floor at a time

Mind your language: the backlash against the te reo revival

The Backstory: Why Stuff’s homepage greets you with 'Kia ora, Aotearoa!' not 'Hello, New Zealand!'

Gentle, respectful, humble: how non-Māori can help revitalise te reo

Former Katchafire member Hāni Dread releases new waiata saluting te reo revolutionaires

Robert Rakete brought to tears by te reo translation of The Breeze radio jingle
How to Bring a Language to Life - Dr Ruakere Hond

Justice Joe Williams: Let's try and get it right

'It was very spiritual': Musicians share stories of song and te reo while recording Waiata/Anthems

This doesn’t make us less

Māori Language Moment recognised in global awards

Language, and more: The challenges for kura Māori students arriving at university

How non-Māori students play a part in te reo revitalisation

Poetry of US civil rights activist Maya Angelou translated and heard in te reo Māori

Making te reo Māori cool: what language revitalisation could learn from the Korean Wave



I'm non verbal, but that won't stop me from speaking Māori

Keep your complaints about te reo Māori to yourself, BSA rules

Reclaiming what was lost

Record enrolment for te reo Māori, foreign languages down

No longer scared to speak my language

Keeping Māori storytelling alive
In a world where technology is taking over and oral traditions are at risk of dying with our kaumātua, Lee Timutimu, with the help of a few famous friends, has made it his mission to keep Māori storytelling alive.
Te Reo Māori: A new era for the language - Hēmi Kelly

A whānau affair

Fish and chips and a serving of te reo

This Pākehā life

Reflecting the reo world
Kristin Ross on the challenges of raising children in a reo-Māori speaking household. “Their decision to be a reo Māori-speaking household instantly cut off friends and whānau who either didn't agree with their decision or found it too challenging...”

Karena Kelly: Translating Dr Seuss into te reo Māori


Young Māori clothing designer finds his passion through te reo

Pay attention to those who go before - Tainui Stephens

Revitalising te reo a three-generation process: Prof Rawinia Higgins

Justice Joe Williams on te reo Māori, and synthesising Aotearoa law
Māori studies expert shares 'significant' history of how Te Wiki o te Reo Māori came to be

Hinewehi Mohi: Beyond Twickenham

A yearning for the reo
“We need to re-establish communities where the language is used in homes and there’s a support network. We want the language to be caught, not taught. We want a living language, not a textbook language, so my whole dream is to reinstate intergenerational transmission ...

Stacey Morrison: Learning te reo Māori is sometimes a luxury

Finding your voice through the reo - Tainui Stephens

Welcome to the reo-volution: On the explosion in Māori language learning
With te reo Māori classes about to start for 2020, the ‘no vacancy’ signs are going up around the country as people continue to flock to learn our native language. There’s no denying that a reo-volution is underway across Aotearoa.

Pimp my reo - Moana Maniapoto

Rawinia Higgins: We’re not being too PC about te reo Māori. We’re worried

Celebrating our reo warriors

Timoti Karetu: A stickler for standards
The woman who fought to say 'kia ora'

Embracing a place and space that celebrates Māori

Wellington law firm to train all its staff in te reo Māori

Language advice column now a book
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Race Relations Commissioner wants compulsory te reo in schools
Ngākau titikaha means to be confident. Ngākau is heart, titi means to pierce and kaha means strength. Every time I speak reo I feel my heart is pierced with power and strength.
New Zealand’s first language is endangered. We can’t afford to normalise misspelling and mispronunciation any more than it already is.
Kāore ōku toto Māori, engari ko Aotearoa te whenua i whakatipu mai i a au. I don’t have any Māori blood, but Aotearoa is the land that raised me.
When we were dreaming of a world for our daughter, we wanted her whole world to have te reo Māori in it, not just her parents in the house that she lived in. So, when she goes to play, there are things that reflect her reality. When she watches TV, there are shows that reflect her reality. When she’s in the shops, there are things on the shelf that reflect her reality. And so that was the catalyst for Pipi Mā.
I learned the reo out of joy for the world finally making sense. And I learned the law out of optimism that if it was the agent for the destruction of my koroua’s mana then it equally could be the agent for the reconstruction of the mana of his mokopuna and great mokopuna, and that is how I get here, really.




