11 Jul 2013

Te Manu Korihi News for 11 July 2013

From Checkpoint, 6:50 pm on 11 July 2013

A Ngai Tuhoe leader is stunned by the National and Labour parties' decision not to proceed with an inquiry into the emotional toll the 2007 Urewera police raids had on local people; The Rotorua District Council hasn't launched a self-imposed iwi consultation audit - after it was found to have misled two tribes; A campaign group in Northland is shoulder tapping Maori in and around Whangarei and asking them to consider standing for local government bodies; Waikato-Tainui Iwi are holding a dawn service at Mangatawhiri in north Waikato tomorrow to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Waikato land war which saw them loose all of their land.