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![App offers new way to learn Maori](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
App offers new way to learn Maori
The internet and mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets could be the difference for the survival of Te Reo Maori, says a senior Maori academic.
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Audit inquiry clouds award nomination
Maori language stalwart Dame Iritana Tawhiwhirangi has been named as one of three finalists for the Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year awards.
![Urgent Kohanga Reo audit ordered](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Urgent Kohanga Reo audit ordered
An urgent audit has been ordered by the government into the spending of state money intended to help Kiwi kids learn te reo Maori.
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Kohanga Reo summoned to Beehive
The Kohanga Reo National Trust has been summoned to the Beehive tonight to discuss allegations of the misuse of funding.
![PM: Full Kohanga spending inquiry](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
PM: Full Kohanga spending inquiry
Prime Minister John Key has warned that any state-funded organisation found to be misspending taxpayer money will have "the book thrown at them.''
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Kohanga Reo National Trust investigated
There are allegations of financial mismanagement at the top of a Government-funded organisation whose objective is to help children learn Te Reo.
![Book awards veto Pakeha author](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Book awards veto Pakeha author
An author of a popular Maori children's book series cannot enter a national library award because she is Pakeha.
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Disbelief at reaction to kia ora email
A publisher was "gobsmacked" to receive a complaint about using a Maori greeting in an email to a prospective client.
![Mum blows whistle on te reo tool](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Mum blows whistle on te reo tool
Look up "policeman" in an online Maori dictionary and you used to find a suggestion that police carrying warrants should be "kicked in the backside" and thrown out.
![Google calls on Te Reo speakers for help](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Google calls on Te Reo speakers for help
With Maori Language week in full swing, tech giant Google is calling for Te Reo enthusiasts to check out the service's language translation tool.
![Parents' te reo challenge](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Parents' te reo challenge
Kahurangi Maxwell carries a dictionary wherever she goes - the result of having a curious toddler and a decision to speak only te reo to her daughter.
![Iwi charged with saving language](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Iwi charged with saving language
The Minister of Maori Affairs, Dr Pita Sharples, is calling for more iwi investment in te reo revitalisation and a wider acceptance from Maori that the language still stands in a precarious position.
![Twelve Questions: Stephen Sinclair](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Twelve Questions: Stephen Sinclair
Your latest play Intimacies is about how technology is warping our lives and relationships - how is it affecting you?
![Peter Calder: Trying to get Maori on the menu](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Peter Calder: Trying to get Maori on the menu
The kids in Room 19 at Takapuna Normal Intermediate School seem riveted to their chairs as the woman at the front of the class belts out a song that makes the steel rafters ring.
![TPK boss confident on te reo targets](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
TPK boss confident on te reo targets
The leader of Maori Development Ministry Te Puni Kokiri says new official government targets, such as increasing the proportion of te reo speakers, is achievable.
![Redneck fears over naming move](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Redneck fears over naming move
Cultural commentators hope for a reasoned debate on a move to recognise alternative names for the North and South Islands - but one says it's likely to bring out rednecks.
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Media: SPCA joins with Jackson
Peter Jackson is said to be enthusiastic about monitoring off-set conditions for animals used in film productions, writes John Drinnan.
![Peter Calder: Language on knife edge](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Peter Calder: Language on knife edge
It's a sobering experience to be in a room where no one is speaking your native language.
![Paul Little: Benefits rare in short term solutions](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Paul Little: Benefits rare in short term solutions
It's not the education system that is at fault, but the economic and social systems which, if they were doing their job, would be identifying and helping those who start life on the back foot.
![Return of the moko](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Return of the moko
A group of Tainui women are spearheading a revival of the art of the moko.
![[PHOTOS] Talking Heads: Maitreya and Te Awanui Reeder](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
[PHOTOS] Talking Heads: Maitreya and Te Awanui Reeder
For Talking Heads, Maitreya and Awa talked about their relationship with te reo Maori.