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For the final show of the year, our Maori news team reflect on the year 2022 for tangata whenua and look ahead to what the issues in 2023 might be.

This week the Maori news team are the historic apology to Ngati Maniapoto, they digest a landmark Supreme Court ruling for Waikato land; and they cover the Maori language honours.

Chatham Islands iwi look to the future with the Crown; Co-governance aspirations appear to have been put on hold by the government; and, we join a wahakura workshop in Otautahi.

This week the Maori news team look at concerns about emissions pricing for whenua Maori; is a census undercount affecting Maori representation in parliament?; and they speak to the winner of one of the premier Maori art awards.

This week our Maori news look atreforms to the Resource Management Act and The Maori Electoral option Bill.

This week our Maori news look at how Te Urewera celebrate the return of several taonga and the two new exhibitions opened at Te Papa to celebrate waka voyaging.

This week our Maori news team look at health providers planning for the next pandemic; how is Maori wellbeing improving alongside the reo; and, the country's top tohunga gather in Whakatane.

This week our Maori news team look at disgruntlement in Te Urewera; a Hawke's Bay Maori development being held back; the Crown apologises to Ngati Maru, and they're there as a kura kaupapa in Dannevirke celebrates a big milestone.

This week our Maori news team examine one of the worst cases of child abuse the Chief Ombudsman has ever seen and the repatriation of more than 60 Maori and Moriori remains.

This week our Maori news team looks into why there's still no reliable way to record targeted hate crimes despite a funded team and hundreds of audits, and why the Children's Minister was forced to apologise. Plus plenty more.

This week our Maori news team are there as Maniapoto reaches settlement with the crown, Maori fisheries take stock 30 years after one of the first major settlements, recognising mana whenua at Kura Tawhiti and plenty more.

This week our Maori news team capture all the celebrations around 50 years of the Maori language petition.

This week our Maori news team reflects on Queen Elizabeth's relations with Maori and the treaty; police photographing of rangatahi is found to be illegal and widespread; and outcry over mataora and ta moko on social media.

This week our Maori news team covers the Waitangi Tribunal hearing of tangata whaikaha, representation in resource management reforms, a chocolate debate reaches parliament, and solar panels for marae.

This week our Maori news team covers the Waitangi Tribunal hearing of tangata whaikaha, representation in resource management reforms, a chocolate debate reaches parliament, and solar panels for marae.

This week our Maori news team cover the Royal Commission into abuse in care, a controversial bill that changes Oranga Tamariki, Te Atiawa stamping its mark in New Plymouth, and tributes from the tangi of Sir Toby Curtis.

This week our Maori news team pays tribute to Sir Toby Curtis, they speak to the iwi leader who was in the supreme court continuing his fight against country's biggest climate change polluters and Maori boarding schools get a top up from the government.

Unprecedented demand for kaupapa Maori mental health services; moves to protect Maori data as the government goes to the cloud; and recognition for a frontline Maori GP.

This week our Maori news team look at mana whenua not backing down over a wharf extension in Tauranga, Maori data specialists say they are being ignored by the government, and we talk to the director who is retelling a dark period in our very recent history in Aotearoa...the Tuhoe raids.

This week our Maori news team looks at racism faced by Maori councillors, the first week of the Waitangi Tribunal's justice inquiry, and tributes to the late Northland leader Ricky Houghton.

This week our Maori news team examines the biggest Maori health reforms in a generation; ask whether a record number of wahine Maori police graduates will make a difference; And, hear a call for more Maori to step forward for local government.

This week our Maori news team has a Matariki special looking at how the motu marked the new year as a public holiday for the first time.

Fears of an equity disaster and long covid cases mount; The Abuse in Care inquiry examines state foster care; Ngai Tahu goes it alone on Whanau Ora; Making pride more inclusive; And, we mark Puanga.

This week the Maori news team look at a widow who is left distraught after the body of her husband was taken from their home to be buried north, Maori could be able to change electoral rolls at any time - and McDonalds forced to apologise to an employee after trying to censure the use or te reo.

This week our Maori news team look at the barriers preventing Maori from building on their own land; small steps as Wai262 marches forward; concerns about just how Matariki will be marked as a national holiday; and the Kingiitanga's trip to London, following in the footsteps of Tawhiao.

This week our Maori news team look at the barriers preventing Maori from building on their own land; small steps as Wai262 marches forward; concerns about just how Matariki will be marked as a national holiday; and the Kingiitanga's trip to London, following in the footsteps of Tawhiao.

This week our Maori News team pay tribute to Joe Hawke and Aroha Rereti-Crofts, and take a look at some of the post-budget announcements for Maori.

This week the team get reaction from the Government's Budget announcement and the Emissions Reduction Plan.

On Te Waonui this week, the team get reaction on climate policy on Maori and why there shouldn't be tougher punishments for youth involved in ram raids.

On Te Waonui this week, the last surviving member of the 28th Maori battalion is knighted, A Bay of Plenty councillor is coping racial abuse for his moko mataora and Act Leader David Seymour rules out supporting the Maori Party's position on Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

On Te Waonui this week, co-governance debate continues, a woman is discriminated against because of her moko kauae and after 26 year Ngati Kahungunu gets a new chair.

On Te Waonui this week, a whanau farewell Kaoss Price who was shot by police in Taranaki, next steps in how Aotearoa will uphold the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and a new chair for the Oranga Tamariki Advisory board.

On Te Waonui this week, our Te Manu Korihi team gauge Maori reaction to the traffic light change, look at new funding for matauranga Maori projects, and the quest to reunite the whanau of hundreds of Maori Battalion members with their tupuna's medals.

On Te Waonui this week, NGO's throw their support behind the Maori Health Authority and urge the opposition to rethink, Kura Kaupapa argue their case in the Waitangi Tribunal and Matariki officially becomes a public holiday.

In the final episode of the year, the Te Manu Korihi Maori News Team digest a big year in Te Ao Maori, discussing the main stories, triumphs and what's ahead.

Coming up this week on Te Waonui...a historic day for Moriori, the Waitangi Tribunal grant a special inquiry into government handling of the pandemic for Maori and Whanau Ora back in court - at yet another attempt to get data of unvaccinated Maori.

Our Maori News team looks at how the vaccination drive is going in Opotiki, it looks at kura kaupapa and kohanga impacted by government vaccine mandates and the Maori Council go to the Waitangi Tribunal claiming the covid response has left Maori behind.

Our Māori News team looks at whanau ora commissioning agency go back to court to try and get data on unvaccinated Māori, concerns about misinformation targeting Māori, and we are on the road - 'Aunty power' is deployed in Kawerau, as the town looks to drive up vaccination rates.

We check in on vaccination rates and a hikoi that wasn't welcome in Waitangi; Te Matatini is postponed again; iwi draft their plans to confront climate change, as calls grow for indigenous voices to be heard more at the international level; and we mark 186 years since the declaration of independence.

Rangatahi vaccination rates remain low; an oranga tamariki security changed his life; Waitangi tribunal release final recommendations of its ongoing health inquiry; and the first wahine maori has been sworn in as Aotearoa's Governor General....

We begin this week with the pandemic, the case numbers in Tāmaki Makaurau continue to grow rapidly, and Māori vaccination rates continue to lag. Kura and kohanga confront vaccine mandates; Te Tairāwhiti arts festival goes ahead, with an extra hauora approach; on the 25th anniversary of the first MMP election, what has it achieved for Māori; and, plans for the commemoration of the Māori language petition next year.

The country continues to grapple with an outbreak of Covid-19 that's also highlighting stark disparities for Māori; Māori organisations are working to address Covid disparities as the country changes tack in its response; we check in on Murupara, the town with the lowest vaccination rates; Ahipara mana whenua set up camp to protect a land block; and, a new Ngāi Tahu aquaculture settlement.