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A professor of Māori language and customs is welcoming the Law Commission's recommendation for bereaved families to appoint a spokesperson who could carry out the last wishes of a deceased relative. Audio

The Manu Korihi news team brings you highlights of the week's Maori news, including the escalating Lake Horowhenua row, and urban Maori struggling with high burial costs. Audio

A Māori funeral director in Auckland is asking iwi to help shoulder the funeral costs of tribal members. Audio

The Manu Korihi news team brings you highlights of the weeks' Maori news, including: - Report reveals substantial harm caused to Whanganui Maori and a native flower comes back from the brink of… Audio

Māori farmers are backing an iwi-led agricultural training programme that aims to produce more Māori farming managers. Audio

It's an action packed weekend ahead for the Maori Party which is keen to win back voters and revamp its image as an enduring voice for Maori; Rangatahi Maori in Auckland are confused about how reforms… Audio

The Presbyterian Church's Māori division has rounded on its General Assembly, accusing it of walking away from its partnership to fund and support Turakina Maori Girls College; The Maori Party is… Audio

The Anglican Church says it is doing enough to ensure the survival of the kura it runs, contrary to criticisms made by the Minister of Maori Development; A health research says a series of reports… Audio

A health research says a series of reports into Maori well-being across the motu provides a stark reminder of the inequities they face in achieving good health; A group of Maori and Pacific delegates… Audio

The Crown is trying to block submissions made by Maori Land Court Judges from being used in a Waitangi Tribunal hearing against its review of Maori land laws; The Turakina Maori Girls' College Old… Audio

The Turakina Maori Girls' College Old Girls Association says the interim decision that the kura should close has come as a surprise; The rate of hospitalisation as a result of assault or attempted… Audio

The Race Relations Commissioner says statistics revealing Maori are almost three times as likely as non-Maori to have experienced unfair treatment on the basis of ethnicity show agencies need to do… Audio

The Māori Party is calling the late Dame Whina Cooper a visionary woman for her part in leading the Māori land march in 1975. A Maori dental surgeon says evidence that less than 20 percent of elderly… Audio

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the month-long Maori land march arriving at parliament in Wellington; Treaty settlement expectations will be on the agenda when the Maniapoto Maori Trust Board… Audio

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the month-long Maori land march arriving at parliament in Wellington; One of the country's largest iwi is to begin consultations that will consider how a future… Audio

The New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute says a Maori cultural exhibition that's just opened in Rio de Janeiro is generating huge interest; A recycling kaupapa is being credited for diverting… Audio

A recycling kaupapa is being credited for diverting 60 tonnes of waste from marae in Waikato from ending up in landfills; The New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute says building a Maori brand is… Audio

Ngāti Porou is describing its agreement with the Gisborne District Council to share responsibilities for protecting freshwater and land resources as a 'watershed' moment. Iwi and the local community… Audio