19 Nov 2013

Te Manu Korihi News for 19 November 2013

From Checkpoint, 5:49 pm on 19 November 2013

More than a dozen people protested in the public gallery of parliament today - calling for MPs to help get an Indian man back to New Zealand to re-join his Maori whanau; Taranaki iwi say they are not surprised that a Stratford District Council hearing has ruled in favour of oil and gas wellsites near the Egmont National Park; Parliament's health select committee has found that pregnant Maori and Pasifika women are waiting too long before they seek maternity care; The Government is to sell-off the portion of the broadcasting spectrum that didn't sell at auction.