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Ria Hall on her bid for the Tauranga Mayoralty
Tauranga has been without an elected council for four years and earlier this week singer-songwriter Ria Hall put her hat in the ring for the position of Mayor. Those elected this year will serve for four years instead of three, before Tauranga rejoins the national three-year cycle in 2028. Alongside her recent mayoral… Audio
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Koro Nicholas talks about the new documentary
11 May 2024Last week saw the 160th anniversary of the battle of Pukehinahina Gate Pā and coinciding with the anniversary was the release of the documentary NZ Wars Stories… Audio
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Sandy Adsett: 'If I paint by numbers it's no good'
20 Apr 2024Over the past 60 years Maoridom has produced many prominent artists and one who definitely belongs in that category is Sandy Adsett, although he prefers to see… Audio
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Maori art pioneer Fred Graham
13 Apr 2024Mapuna visits Maori artist Fred Graham at his home in Waiuku at the lower reaches of the Manukau Harbour. He was part of a generation of young Maori artists who… Audio
Saturday 11 May 2024
Koro Nicholas talks about the new documentary Stories of Tauranga Moana
Mihingarangi Forbes and Koro Nicholas in front of Mt. Maunganui Photo: Arthur Rasmussen
Last week saw the 160th anniversary of the battle of Pukehinahina Gate Pā and coinciding with the anniversary was the release of the documentary NZ Wars Stories of Tauranga Moana the 5th in a series of multi-media documentaries telling the history of the New Zealand Wars, produced by Aotearoa Media Collective and Great Southern Television for RNZ. Koro Nicholas, he uri nō Tauranga Moana, was involved in the documentary and he joins Māpuna this week.
Ria Hall on her bid for the Tauranga Mayoralty and her new doco It takes a Kāinga
Ria Hall Photo: supplied
Tauranga has been without an elected council for four years and earlier this week singer-songwriter Ria Hall put her hat in the ring for the position of Mayor. Those elected this year will serve for four years instead of three, before Tauranga rejoins the national three-year cycle in 2028. Alongside her recent mayoral candidacy announcement she speaks about another kaupapa close to her, a short documentary It takes a Kāinga addressing the issue of suicide among Māori Māmā
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