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In the last few years, Tom O'Brien's Southland farmland has become home to a hand-built bike and hiking track and an organic market garden.

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Matariki Williams (Ngai Tuhoe, Ngati Whakaue, Ngati Hauiti, Taranaki) is a Whakatane-based writer, curator, and historian. She is the co-founder of and co-editor of ATE Journal of Maori Arts, alongside Bridget Reweti, which was set up to create a space to talk about Maori art, from a Maori perspective. "It's just very apparent if you look through a…

Matariki Williams (Ngai Tuhoe, Ngati Whakaue, Ngati Hauiti, Taranaki) is a Whakatane-based writer, curator, and historian. She is the co-founder and co-editor of ATE Journal of Maori Art alongside Bridget Reweti. The journal was set up to create a space for conversations about Maori art from a Maori perspective. [picture id="4LBNG1Q_matarikiānd_jul…

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Listener feedback for 25 March 2023.

Children’s hymns feature in this week’s programme, along with a contemporary setting of Charles Wesley’s Love divine, all loves excelling and Graham Kendrick’s 20th century classic, The servant king.

Life-long creative Judy Darragh is known for her bright and brilliant use of colour and found materials as a sculptor, painter and jeweller. Not afraid to use plastic, Darragh wants us to reflect on how we treat the plane

Ruapehu, the largest active volcano in Aotearoa, and its neighbour Tongariro, are iconic mountains in the central North Island. They don't look like most other New Zealand volcanoes though - their rough, undulating cones more closely resemble those found in Iceland.

National's leader Christopher Luxon ditched Parliament for the playground this week, touring schools to sell his party's solution to declining student performance with a back-to-basics focus on literacy and numeracy. Teacher unions have criticised the plan, but the party was unlikely to ever get their backing - instead targeting concerned parents a…

You might not have heard of the sport of pickleball, but it's the fastest growing sport in America, and increasingly popular with older players in New Zealand.So big a deal, that on April 2 tennis icons Andre Agassi, John McEnroe, Andy Roddick and Michael Chang will be among those competing for $1 million in an inaugural Hollywood Pickleball Slam.…

Bonnie Garmus's debut novel Lessons in Chemistry has become a multi-million selling bestseller largely through word of mouth.The story concerns a American scientist who, sacked for being pregnant in 1955, takes revenge when she's hired to front a teatime cookery show. Stephen King has called it "the Catch 22 of early feminism."…

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NZ Army leader Dr Ellen Nelson worked night and day for almost a year to help evacuate 563 Afghan Defence Force allies and their families after the country fell to the Taliban in 2021. Ellen Nelson is a finalist for Local Hero of the Year at the 2023 New Zealander of the Year Awards.

New Zealand runner and two-time Olympian Zane Robertson has been banned from all sport for eight years. Fellow runner, author and journalist Adharanand Finn raced with Robertson in Kenya in 2011 and interviewed him last year for his podcast The Way of the Runner.

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The latest news in Cook Islands Maori (Te Reo Maori Kuki Airani) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

Pacific needs to stand up and pay attention to AUKUS - Dame Meg Taylor; 'Hope in the Pacific keeps dwindling due to climate inaction' - Greenpeace; Tonga PM pleased with Pacific Education Ministers conference; Pacific leaders selected for Dawn Raids scholarship programme; Talanoa with 'Red, White and Brass' film director Damon Fepulea'i.…

'Posie Parker normalises hatred towards queer people' - LGBTQ+ activist; NZ Pasifika leaders gather in Auckland for Pasifika futures conference; Vanuatu distributes dry rations for communities in worst-hit areas; PNG Government looks to increase its cabinet.

'Posie Parker normalises hatred towards queer people' - LGBTQ+ activist.

NZ Pasifika leaders gather in Auckland for Pasifika futures conference.

Vanuatu distributes dry rations for communities in worst-hit areas.

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PNG Government looks to increase its cabinet.

What's Up With ADHD? by Mirjam Guesgen: ADHD diagnoses in adults have quadrupled in New Zealand in the past 10 years. What's behind it?

ABC Wantok Program for 24 March 2023.

Andrew Donaldson shaved four minutes off the previous record swimming 22.5 km from Perano Head in the Marlborough Sounds to Wellington in four hours and 33.5 minutes.

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New pups join the protected mainland population of sea lions

Scientists at the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University have just mapped the most complex brain to date - that of a fruit fly.

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Country Life is among drones, driverless tractors, nude sheep and comfy rocking chairs at the Central Districts Field Days, seeing what products are on offer to make the work of hard-pressed farmers and growers a little easier.

Kyle Davey took a winter off two years ago, but what sprouted from his boredom turned out to be some pretty fungi.

RNZ's rural news reporter, Sally Murphy, takes a look at the week's agricultural news.

Sally gets in amongst it at the Central Districts Field Days to find out what's new in the ag world, Cosmo tracks down a bike trail that follows one of New Zealand's longest gold-mining water races and Leah meets a farmer, turned builder, turned mushroom grower in Taranaki.

Our Te Manu Korihi team get reaction to new figures showing the child poverty rate remains unchanged and the longest running festival in Tuhoe set to make a return.

World Athletics has become the latest sporting body to issue a blanket ban on transgender women competing in track and field events, despite a lack of conclusive evidence they have an advantage. Under pressure from political groups and some current and former athletes, the World Athletics president, Sebastian Coe, said the decision was made in the …

Among the cuts on the table in Auckland Council's budget proposal is a slashing of funds for arts and culture - including the UNESCO City of Music programme. This programme aims to strengthen the city's music ecosystem, but it was only just getting started when Covid put a spanner in the works, putting a halt to music events that the industry is st…

The Māori All Blacks are one of New Zealand's top sports teams, and now cricket could follow in their footsteps. New Zealand Cricket is looking at creating a national Māori team and this Easter will hold a men's Māori provincial tournament for the first time. Our reporter Jimmy Ellingham has more.

Recent rainfall has alleviated drought concerns in Otago and Southland, but it's still been another tough summer for southern farmers. Hot and dry summers have been the norm in recent years - and that's raised questions about what the future holds. Our reporter Timothy Brown and camera operator Nathan McKinnon visited the Clutha district, and filed…

Sheep may peeled or plucked, rather than just being shorn, following a breakthrough by scientists working on biological defleecing technology. Australian researchers are experimenting with a corn plant protein. A couple of days after it's injected into sheep it basically softens the wool's roots and allows it to be pulled by hand. Industry associat…