Let’s Hui

Reporter Ruwani Perera explores the growing crisis of homeless rangatahi in Tāmaki Makaurau, and Julian Wilcox interviews Minister for Youth James Meager about this issue and the Regulatory Standards Bill.

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Getting men out into the wild has successfully shaped their outlook on life through the tikanga based Maranga programme. In the studio, Green Party MP Kahurangi Carter talks to Julian Wilcox about free speech, women's rights, and the regulatory standards bill. Meriana Johnsen looks at the Mātauranga Māori STEMM academy Pūhoro, that is helping akonga achieve in engineering, maths and science.

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Exclusive profile on boxer Lani Daniels who has gone from rural Pipiwai to world champion, a moving tribute to James Cross who passed away days after his mother's 106th birthday, and Hope Fuimaono's music video Pūmau for NZ Music Month.

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Marlon Williams is live in studio talking about his new album and the documentary about his te reo journey "Ngā Ao E Rua - Two Worlds". Plus, how a cop is using a unique way to turn the tide on youth crime, and those committing it.

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Te Pāti Māori Co-Leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer reacts to the RMA reforms, and reporter Ruwani Perera meets the American singer-songwriter Maya Piata, whose rich heritage includes whakapapa Māori.

 

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Reporter John Boynton visits a kura that's turning around David Seymour’s cuts to school lunches by making quality kai; Kendra Cox from Auckland University talks with Julian Wilcox about what works and what doesn't with Government policy; plus, we're with the fleet of traditional waka and kaihoe that made up the flotilla at Waitangi.

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Cuts to maternity services at Whakatāne Hospital are causing stress to hapū māmā. Plus, Julian Wilcox talks to public health advocates Dr Elana Curtis and Dr Rawiri Jansen about the impact on Māori of recent healthcare cuts.

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The State of the Nation and the future of Aotearoa: a sit-down with Chris Hipkins, the leader of the opposition. Plus, the food stylist Christall Lowe has made a career from her love of food and photography using Māori kai and native ingredients.

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The Hui investigates a police raid on a rural Māori community in the Manawatū, Te Reureu Valley, which traumatised dozens of innocent people including children.

And leaders from Te kapa haka o Ngāti Whakaue, Tenga Rangitauira and Te Ngāwari Wright join Julian Wilcox live in studio.

 

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Our first episode for 2025 is live from Ngāmotu, at Te Matatini o te Kāhui Maunga. We look at one of the new teams to Te Matatini, Te Uri o Manumanu, and Julian Wilcox is joined by the Te Matatini chair, Tā Herewini Parata, chief judge Dr Turuhira Hare, and Taranaki leader Liana Poutu.

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