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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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.
