Manu Korihi News for 19 December 2011

Some of Labour's Maori MPs have been given key roles in the party; For Shane Jones, it's a return to the front bench; The Hawke's Bay DHB's Maori Health Director says education is the key to reducing Maori infant mortality in the region; Te Runanga a Iwi o Ngapuhi says the interim chief executive George Riley has been officially appointed to the position; A Northland campaign aimed at encouraging communities to embrace whanau time instead of buying in to the commercialisation of Christmas hopes to be picked up across the rest of the country.