Manu Korihi News for 6 September 2011

The Auckland Council for Civil Liberties says the dropping of charges against most of those arrested in the Urewera raids, raises serious questions about human rights; Meanwhile, the Maori lawyer Annette Sykes, says she believes the public is entitled to know why the police have dropped charges against most of those arrested in the Urewera raids of 2007. The Auditor General has found the Crown has failed to break down barriers to allow Maori to build housing on their own whenua; An adviser to the country's largest inland restoration project - converting dairy farmland into native bush - says the initiative will help increase the number of rare native species.