Ngāi Tahu
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Oct 25, 2026
David Perenara-O'ConnellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
all located under the open skies of Kaitorete on the east coast of Te Waipounamu, New Zealand's South Island, identified as one of the best places in the world to take flight.
David Perenara-O'ConnellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Like that ancestor who, according to the legend of Ngāi Tahu, ascended to the heavens, brought back knowledge for his people and planet.
David Perenara-O'ConnellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This set the standard for all of our mahi, And our organization has been named for this bold character who personifies our values and aspirations.
David Perenara-O'ConnellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Tāwhaki the ancestor was known for his good looks and his daring.
Ollie NeasHOST
To explore these questions, I'm joined today by two guests, Matthew Scobie and Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey, whose words I quoted earlier.
Ollie NeasHOST
Matthew is a Kaitahu and To'iwi academic at the University of Canterbury, where he teaches Indigenous economics and corporate responsibility.
Ollie NeasHOST
He's also the co-author with Anna Sturman of the 2024 book, The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation, which explores the relationship between tangata whenua and capitalism.
Ollie NeasHOST
Jane Kelsey is a renowned academic and activist who has spent more than four decades exploring Māori sovereignty, globalisation and neoliberalism.
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Matthew ScobieGUEST
We'd had some really bad experiences down here.
Matthew ScobieGUEST
We also had had, by then, a lot of intermarriage and lots of different relationships.
Matthew ScobieGUEST
That's where I come from, a kind of British whaler and a Kaitahu wahine.
Matthew ScobieGUEST
You know, those are economic relationships, right? That intermarriage is bringing settlers into the new communities and kind of communities emerging out of those and different economic activities emerging out of those.
Jane KelseyGUEST
that was funded in part from money from the Crown Forestry Rental Trust that enabled research to be done and negotiations to occur.
Jane KelseyGUEST
Interestingly, the first couple of big settlements, Tainui and Kaitahu, had ratchet provisions that meant that if others got kind of proportionately more in a settlement, then theirs would go up, which was a very effective constraint on what the Crown was prepared to negotiate with other entities.
Jane KelseyGUEST
And then you had increasingly difficulties about hapu and iwi base, because the Crown said, we want to create these iwi structures that are easier for us to deal with, which cut across hapu rangatiratanga.
Jane KelseyGUEST
and created quite significant internal tensions, most obviously in terms of Te Tai Tokerau and Ngapuhi, but elsewhere as well.
Jinjara MitchellGUEST
And Peary was like, no, no, I know.
Jinjara MitchellGUEST
I know I'm Ngai Tahu and all the rest of it.
Jinjara MitchellGUEST
And Hightfall was like, oh, okay, okay, put it down.
Jinjara MitchellGUEST
And so I remember saying to my mum, what's our iwi? What's our tribe? And, of course, she knew, and that was my first connection with the fact that I was Ngati Porou.
Jeremy WellsHOST
Yeah, so him and the US biotech company Colossal Biosciences helped secure its return, and the egg was bought at auction in 2026.
Jeremy WellsHOST
It's being returned to New Zealand under the guidance of Ngāi Tahu research advisors.
Manaia StewartHOST
Yeah, so the idea with Colossal Biosciences is they want to Jurassic Park this thing back into existence.
Manaia StewartHOST
So they've already done this with some sort of species of wolf the dire wolf oh the wolf they're bringing the wolf back uh they want to do the dodo they want to do the woolly mammoth they want to do the more and i for one am all for it i would love to see that i mean it's pretty harmless i mean again you know my history with birds
Ingrid HipkissHOST
A rare South Island giant moa egg will be returned to Aotearoa after being bought from a private collection in the United States.
Ingrid HipkissHOST
The egg's been bought by Colossal Biosciences and will be returned to Ngai Tahu research leaders as part of the giant moa de-extinction programme.
Ingrid HipkissHOST
Paul Schofield is a moa expert and a senior natural history curator at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch and joins us now.
Ingrid HipkissHOST
Kia ora, good morning, Paul.
Nick PalmiterCORRESPONDENT
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has described it as a...
Nicola WrightHOST
Ngai Tahu hopes Trade Me's ban on raw pounamu will curb the massive black market for its taonga.
Nicola WrightHOST
The iwi which owns all raw pounamu says the ban by a website is a major breakthrough in its long battle against the illegal trade.
Nicola WrightHOST
Poutini Ngai Tahu Runanga co-chairperson Francois Tumahai says the volume of raw pounamu being uncovered is growing.
Francois TumahaiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The price of gold now, and everybody wanting mining permits on the Taipotene, pounamu is getting found more and more often.
Francois TumahaiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We can't pin it down to tonnages, but we know for a fact that what we have recovered over the years, we're exceeding around 6,000 to 7,000 tonnes.
Beth ShapiroGUEST
That's people and that's healthy and it's useful to have these discussions.
Beth ShapiroGUEST
Our MOA de-extinction project is led by the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre in the South Island of New Zealand.
Beth ShapiroGUEST
And the Ngāi Tahu are our main advisors.
Beth ShapiroGUEST
And in fact, they are the deciders of this project and this work.
Beth ShapiroGUEST
They're very excited about the utility of this project, both to bring MOA back to the South Island in New Zealand, but also to inspire habitat restoration and protection in preparation for the return of the MOA.
Selmanu UlalimamaitiHOST
Earth scientist Simon Cogg says little minerals inside the stone, which are only found in te wae pounamu can tie it to a specific location.
Simon CoggSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's a lot of news at the moment around the illegal trade of pounamu and the tracing to its origin and, and we're getting much, much better at doing that and being able to support Ngāi Tahu in their wishes to cut down the illegal trade of and, and the theft of pounamu.
Selmanu UlalimamaitiHOST
Simon Cogg says the research has other applications, such as in archeology.
Selmanu UlalimamaitiHOST
Australian politician Helen Haines remains in a critical condition in a Melbourne hospital after what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is calling an attack near her office in rural Victoria.
Nivariti ManuHOST
A rare moa egg is being returned to this country after years offshore.
Nivariti ManuHOST
De-extinction company Colossal Biosciences has bought the specimen for an undisclosed price from an American collector and gifted it to Ngāi Tahu.
Nivariti ManuHOST
The egg will be tested for age and location to figure out exactly where it came from.
Nivariti ManuHOST
Canterbury Museum senior curator of natural history, Paul Scofield, a collaborating scientist on the moa program, says it shouldn't affect the project to bring back a moa from extinction.
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