Manu Korihi News for 29 September 2011

A lecturer at Victoria University's School of Maori Studies, says an online survey of Maori living in Australia, shows the majority feel deprived of their voting rights; A political inquiry into the status and well-being of Maori children will examine public investment in tamariki across the health, education, social services, and justice sectors; Swapping fields of squash for cows is being offered as one example of how Maori can make more money off their own land; Organisers of a charity auction being held in Napier tonight, hope to raise at least a hundred thousand dollars for a new marae at Waiohiki, on the south west outskirts of the city.