Manu Korihi News for 19 December 2011

Labour's Shane Jones is back on the Opposition front bench - after the party's new leader selected his top team; The Hawke's Bay DHB's Maori Health Director says education is the key to reducing Maori infant mortality in the region; A Northland campaign aimed at encouraging communities to embrace whanau time instead of buying in to the commercialisation of Christmas hopes to be picked up across the rest of the country; Te Runanga a Iwi o Ngapuhi says the interim chief executive George Riley has been officially appointed to the position.