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Paakiwaha is a weekly two-hour current affairs programme broadcast on Monday mornings on Radio Waatea. Delivered in English, it covers current issues from a Maori perspective. It has been broadcasting since 2002. Paakiwaha is funded by NZ On Air and is provided to various Community/Access stations and other broadcasters. The broadcaster's website highlights the following items in today's programme:
At the Maori Party AGM recently, former NZ First MP Tukoroirangi Morgan was voted in as the new party President.
Green MP Marama Davidson.
Te Taura Whiri CE Ngahiwi Apanui.
Wi Huata on the Maori Language summit in Ngati Kahungunu.
Former Mai FM boss Graham Pryor
Joe Cooper: calls to rename State Highway 1 after Captain James Cook while others have suggersted calling it after Dame Whina Cooper following the 1975 Land March.
Labours Housing Spokerson Phil Twyford: Cross Party Inquiry supported by the Maori Party Green Party and Labour.
Political commentator Chris Trotter.