To the rural news with Sally Murphy. Could New Zealand be doing more to grow and process enough wheat for our own consumption?

In this week's Te Waonui - - Justine Murray joins Ratahi Cross, the chairman of Ngai Tukairangi Orchard Trust in Tauranga. The trust is one of three finalists in this year's Ahuwhenua Trophy - Excellence in Horticulture, competition. Ratahi talks about the trusts forty-year history, and Neil Te Kani talks about the devastating impact of their Hastings orchards - following cyclone Gabrielle.

This week, our Maori news team look back on a big week in parliament; the latest round of kura kaupapa hearings, the countdown to Matariki, and they visit Wairoa three months on from Cyclone Gabrielle.

This week the Maori news team follow a Waitangi Tribunal inquiry into who has authority over how kaupapa Maori schools are run and Maori leaders come together with the world's Indigenous at the UN.

Tairawhiti takes its forestry concerns to the UN; does a plan to change Russell back to Kororareka have the support needed; and, a new approach for te taiao. Plus...A Maori paediatrician is warning of a looming child health emergency, with immunisation rates falling to some of their lowest-ever levels.

This week the Māori news team get reaction on the three waters shake up and follow the appointment of a new tumuaki to the Rātana faith.

This week, Taranaki iwi sign the deed of settlement for Taranaki Mounga, the Maori electoral option opens, the launch of Te Pouhere Korero, and a Ngai Tahu wharenui celebrates a century.

Our Te Manu Korihi team get reaction to new figures showing the child poverty rate remains unchanged and the longest running festival in Tuhoe set to make a return.

Maori communities on the East Coast continue their recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle; calls for more to be done to restrict vaping amongst rangatahi; and a maara kai reconnecting Taranaki whanau to traditional practices.

We look back at the life of the country's first openly transgender mayor and MP Georgina Beyer; and the Dargaville community's reaction to a meeting opposing co-governance and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

On Te Waonui this week, reporter Pokere Paewai follows a group from Dannevirke as they travel to Te Matatini festival for the first time.

Our Maori news team visit a marae helping with the aftermath of the floods in Wairoa, plus reports and interviews from Te Matatini kapa haka festival.

Te Waonui a TMK for 12 February 2023.

This week our Maori news team speak to some of the Maori providers helping whanau impacted by flooding in Auckland and they're on the ground at Waitangi.

This week our Maori news team commemorate the life of the late Titewhai Harawira and they're at Ratana for both the political pitches and morehu celebrations.

In the first Te Waonui of the year, our Maori news team gauge reaction to the prime minister's resignation, and Jacinda Ardern's relationship with tangata whenua; reaction to a significant Waitangi Tribunal inquiry; and they're at the waka ama sprint champs.

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.