What’s in a Māori name?
Atakohu Middleton (Photo: Simon Smith) What’s in a Māori name? Often, a great deal. In the past, tūpuna had a single name, but they often took new names to mark…
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Tōku tuakana hou: My new sister
Atakohu Middleton and her sister Wendy, meeting for the first time in February 2025 at the domestic terminal at Auckland airport. (Photo supplied) Atakohu Middleton discovered a sister this year…
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Asking the hard questions
Atakoha Middleton explores how Māori journalists balance tikanga and manaakitanga with asking hard questions. (Photo: Simon Smith AUT) What makes Māori journalism distinctive? Atakohu Middleton, an award-winning journalist, has explored…
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Balancing tikanga and journalism
Dr Atakohu Middleton (Photo by Simon Smith). How does tikanga affect the work of Māori journalists? Atakohu Middleton, a former journalist turned academic, on her PhD research into reo-Māori journalism….
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Learning te reo as an adult: Tips for success
…personal, social and environmental factors that help adult learners become fluent speakers. Atakohu Middleton, who was 36 when she finally started applying herself to te reo, asked Matiu about his…
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Māori media revamp: Where’s the focus on quality journalism?
…Māori broadcasters, journalists, and commentators for their view on what’s working and what’s not. Atakohu Middleton, a former print reporter who’s writing her PhD thesis on reo-Māori journalism, joins the…
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Breaking through the biggest barrier to learning te reo
…efforts to learn te reo Māori. Atakohu Middleton gets advice from Dr Awanui Te Huia, an expert in the psychological factors that can affect Māori learning te reo in later…
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The Māori war hero still held in Tunisian hearts
…when he first visited Takrouna last year, Haane is still remembered and revered there by one family, 83 years later. Here’s Atakohu Middleton with the story. In March last…
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Balancing dreams
…April, Veisinia talked to Atakohu Middleton about what it means to follow her dream. You have to admire young people who have the confidence to rock up to a…
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The war beneath their feet
…awareness and galvanise support for victims. Here’s Tuki and Cleo having a kōrero with Atakohu Middleton. Solomon Islander Maeverlyn Pitanoe will never forget May 9, 2021. It was a…
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Tackling the questions in ‘the too-hard basket’
…up for discussion. She introduces Atakohu Middleton to the Too-Hard Basket. Dr Heather Came, a public health academic and antiracism educator, takes a small but important prop to her…
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Constellations: a Matariki play
…has reimagined the celebrated British play Constellations for Aotearoa, setting it among the stars of Matariki. Atakohu Middleton reports. It’s dawn on top of a chilly Maungawhau (Mt Eden,…
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Having the end-of-life kōrero before it’s too late
…Here she tells Atakohu Middleton about her new book, He Aroha Te Aroha, which helps whānau Māori to have early conversations about end-of-life wishes. Have you thought about whether you’ll…
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Tīpene: A legacy reborn
…it was closed, it’s now a charter school, and officially named Tīpene, as it was always known by generations of former students. Filmmaker Kimiora Kaire-Melbourne talked to Atakohu Middleton about…
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Thirty years of the state of Māori rights
…Atakohu Middleton why, despite the frustrations the book records, she remains hopeful. Way back in 1995, Margaret Mutu inherited a job from the late Ranginui Walker, a colleague at…
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The magic of music therapy
…and their six-year-old son, Dean, who is autistic and considered non-verbal. Here they are talking to Atakohu Middleton about how music has helped their only child to connect. Dean Fainu,…
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‘Dad made me, but drama saved me’
…Auckland Theatre Company’s Mt Eden base to kōrero with Atakohu Middleton. Beer. Methylated spirits. Anything with alcohol. Vela Manusaute’s father, Saute, drank them all. And when Saute had a…
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A love letter to Hokianga and its people
…as a GP, “Kahurangi Rata Clare” — the esteemed Dr Clare — has written a memoir, A Place to Stand: A country doctor’s life. She spoke with Atakohu Middleton about…
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Waenga — a family and community affair
…weeks. Here they are having a kōrero with Atakohu Middleton. Connie, a teenage wahine Māori, is busking outside a block of shops, singing with her guitar, when shopkeepers complain…
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Samuel Mataele: A personality of steel
…on July 11. (Photo: Hagen Hopkins) Teenage opera singer Samuel Mataele took the top prize in the Kiri Te Kanawa Song Quest last month. He tells Atakohu Middleton that life…
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Taking reo-Māori opera to the regions
…to Kerikeri next weekend. Such concerts are rare, and this weekend’s will be particularly poignant, as Atakohu Middleton reports. A concert that fuses opera masterpieces in their original languages…
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Human zoos in the digital age
…of the 20th century. She talks to Atakohu Middleton. Lindah Lepou was a teenager when she read about “human zoos”, and was fascinated and repelled at the same time….
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Reckoning with reo revival
…injustices that we’re experiencing in our society. As Atakohu Middleton reminds us: “The work we do to support our reo is inextricable from the work we do to reclaim what…
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What happens when Māori have more control?
…from The State of Māori Rights Revised Edition, written by Margaret Mutu and published by Huia. See also this interview with Margaret, in which she tells journalist Atakohu Middleton about…
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Once upon a time in Whirinaki
…Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand, RRP $37.99. Out June 16. See also Atakohu Middleton’s interview with Clare here. Dr Clare Ward, 77, has been a GP in Hokianga since the early…
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