15 Jun 2015

Te Manu Korihi News for 15 June 2015

From Te Manu Korihi, 8:52 am on 15 June 2015

Documents released under the Official Information Act show Maori have only held about 15 percent of the Defence Force's most senior leadership appointments since 2003; Six million dollars is to be made available to groups that want to improve the health of the Waikato River; Iwi in Tai Tokerau are fighting to keep their rohe free of Genetically Modified Organisms; Two thirds of Australia's indigenous people are dying before the age of 65, compared to 19 percent of deaths among non-indigenous people.