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Poihakena is the Māori word for Sydney. As Benjamin Pitman and Rangipumamao Hira explain in this clip, Māori have been coming across the Tasman to settle in Sydney since the end of the 18th century. In the last 40 years their numbers have grown and when this programme was made in 2009 there were over 120,000 Māori living there. It was their hope to build a marae so that Māori culture could flourish in their new home.
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