13 Dec 2013

Te Manu Korihi for 13 December 2013

From Morning Report, 6:27 am on 13 December 2013

Te Arawa has decided not to bid for the closed Rotorua sawmill, Tachikawa, because it would cost about 25-million-dollars to buy and run; The Maori Council has responded to a decision not to reform legislation that oversees the organisation - saying the government has missed the point of the act, which is for tangata whenua to decide how it works; A Massey University researcher says her studies show teachers who educate Maori special needs children have low expectations of their pupils; The Embassy of Brazil has launched a billingual publication in Maori and English about its indigenous peoples.