NATIVE AFFAIRS. 23/07/2007

At a time when “TV is tabloid and channels are ghettoising current affairs”, Māori Television will be covering and challenging New Zealand stories with Māori perspectives in a new, prime-time current affairs show ironically dubbed – NATIVE AFFAIRS.
Covering subjects such as suicide and educational achievement amongst Māori boys, the team is dishing up four field-based video segments a week and one studio-based interview or panel.

Almost 200 years after Hongi Hika’s invasion of Te Arawa, the healing continues.
Ngāpuhi elders travel to Rotorua.
In Māori Language Week it is asked why a government department asked one of its staff not to speak Te Reo.
Winston Peters visit to Samoa.