Te Manu Korihi News for 20 June 2013

The Maori Party's candidate standing for the Ikaroa-Rawhiti seat says there's a political power vacuum in the region - and he wants to fill it; Meanwhile, the Mana Party candidate for Ikaroa-Rawhiti says housing for Maori right throughout the country is at crisis point; The mayor of Kawerau, Malcolm Campbell, is suggesting the education sector should be overhauled to cater to students' individual career ambitions; Taranaki's Maori language revitalisation organisation has won national recognition for the third time in a row.