10 May 2013

Te Manu Korihi News for 10 May 2013

From Checkpoint, 5:48 pm on 10 May 2013

The Mana Party aims to win the Ikaroa-Rawhiti electorate after announcing it will stand a candidate for the upcoming by-election; A Massey University lecturer in Maori studies says a criminologist's view that the large population of Maori in Hamilton is to blame for the city's second highest number of first warnings in the country under the three strike law system, is shallow; The chair of the only Maori employment training provider in Wellington says more Maori providers must open to get results from a Trades Training Scheme for young Maori and Pacifica; Meanwhile, the Maori Affairs Minister has announced another Budget initiative, aimed at getting more Maori in to employment.