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Music: Mahinaarangi Tocker - "Lost and Found"
Interview: Bryan Hughes.
Within months of becoming Chief Executive of the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute at Whakarewarewa, Bryan Hughes is repositioning the Institute which was visited by 540 thousand people last year. Like other tourist attractions in the country, the Asian downturn has affected the Institute's visitor numbers but Bryan Hughes is confident that certain strategies which are being put into place will have a positive effect. We spoke with him in Rotorua...
Music: The Willie Matthews Quartet - "Awhi Mai Ra e Hine"
Kupu Korikori: A personal opinion and comment by the Rt Rev Bishop Muru Walters who talks this week about Customary Fishing Rights.
News Report: Lois Williams.
A report on the "Māori Customary Fishing Rights Hui" at Waitangi with Radio New Zealand's Northland News reporter, Lois Williams...
Music: The Volcanics Māori Show band - "You'll never find, another love like mine". Soloist: Robbie Ratana.
Interview: Major Fiona Cassidy.
Leaders from Bougainville and Papua New Guinea thrashed out a ceasefire agreement under the watchful gaze of delegates from Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Australia and New Zealand at Lincoln University near Christchurch on Friday.
NZ's Foreign Minister, Don McKinnon is credited for his work in bringing together the sides in the nine years of conflict. Mr McKinnon says the New Zealand led truce-monitoring group, the TMG, who have been on Bougainville since October also deserve credit. He singles out one of the TMG persons for particular praise saying she possesses "the Melanesian way". The person is Major Fiona Cassidy of Aupouri, who joins us now...
Music: The Willie Matthews Quartet - "Tahi nei taru kino"
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