Manu Korihi News for 6 October 2011

The prominent Maori lawyer, Donna Hall, has lost her bid to stop being named over charges laid by the Law Society; The Associate Minister of Maori Affairs, says she's been impressed since entering parliament in 1996, by the willingness of the National party to work with leading Maori among other parties; Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga has initiated a monitoring project from a Maori perspective, on two of the major streams in Hawke's Bay, which begins today.