You probably didn’t vote in the local elections but it's not your fault

Experts say the system is broken, creating barriers between young people and local government.

Asking people how much their outfit costs: Christchurch edition

“Pretty much everything I am wearing is second hand.”

Why I want to return tukutuku panels to all wharenui up north

“The whole point is to inspire and invigorate people’s interest in this sort of practice.”

Firepit chats with Tom Scott and Troy Kingi

The music icons talk pottery, songwriting, and playing tunes in prison.

Would you rather: pause time or rewind time

“I’d die with both of those options”

How to make boil up on a budget

Here’s a cheap recipe from Aunty Trish to help feed your flat or whānau.

‘It’s like disappearing’: what it’s like to go to prison in NZ | True Justice

In the first episode of True Justice, we hear about what it’s like to be arrested.

How do we build a world without police and prisons | True Justice

“It means giving support to people so that they can live their best lives.”

What it’s actually like inside prison, and how you survive | True Justice

In Episode 2, hear the history of prisons in NZ, what day-to-day life is like on the inside.

‘I'm not delivering my baby in a court cell’: pregnant in prison | True Justice

Listen to the third episode of our new podcast series, True Justice.

‘I did the crime. I deserved the time. But when does that end?’ | True Justice

“It affects jobs, it affects travel, it affects insurance - it doesn’t go away.”

Climate activist Txai Suruí on indigenous solutions to saving our planet

“It is not enough just to protect the forest, we have to give back to her what we took from her."

Guessing kupu Māori: Whisper Challenge

“For me it was easy.”
“Don’t lie, bro.”

Māori weather presenter Te Rauhiringa Brown reacts to public feedback

Te Rauhiringa Brown is a reporter at TVNZ and since July, she been presenting the weather.

Kiwi doesn’t represent everyone in Aotearoa

Kiwi has been a national identifier in New Zealand since the early 1900s.

What it feels like to have your reo beaten out of you

Watch this clip from the new documentary 'Speak No Māori' available to watch now on TVNZ+.

A behind the scenes look at the actual Māori Language Petition

The Māori student groups took two years to collect 30,000 signatures.

Why I created a 5-storey mural of Hana Te Hemara, pioneer of Te Wiki o te reo Māori

“I knew it would challenge people's thinking, but that’s another day in the office for me”

‘There’s no B in te reo Māori’: Whisper Challenge

Here’s a fun way to add some new kupu to your kite this Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori.

How colonisers went from learning te reo Māori to trying to exterminate it

“We were taught that everything they were doing was good and everything we were doing was bad."

Disabled, unable to work and on the benefit | Show Us Your Money

“We don't go on these benefits because we want to. … We literally don't have any other choice.”

How to make fry bread on a budget

“It’s definitely a treat - but one you won’t regret later.”

We fell in love in a VR chatroom

"In VR we can be whoever we want or whatever we want."

Your fear of sharks is irrational but not your fault

More New Zealanders are injured every year by alpacas and rabbits than by sharks, according to ACC. 

1 in 3 drugs sold in NZ aren’t what you think

"There’s no cocaine in the sample”

How to cook hāngī on a budget

"If we can make yummy kai like this on a reasonable budget, we’re winning.”

Asking people how much their outfit costs

"We love a thrifty queen."

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