Te Manu Korihi News for 26 February 2013

The Minister of Education, Hekia Parata, is downplaying her treatment at Te Matatini when the crowds heckled and booed her on stage in Rotorua; A former editor of the New Zealand Herald, Gavin Ellis, says organisers of Te Matatini placed impossible restrictions on media trying to cover the kapa haka festival; Despite Te Matatini being partly funded by Government agencies, the Minister of Maori Affairs, Pita Sharples, supports the organisation making its own media rules; The National Party says it's 'dreadful' and 'incredible' that no-one on the new Labour front bench is responsible for Treaty settlements.