20 Sep 2013

Te Manu Korihi News for 20 September 2013

From Morning Report, 6:26 am on 20 September 2013

The South Island iwi wanting to invest in a controversial Hawke's Bay dam says it's up to the Environmental Protection Authority to deal with local iwi concerns; Maori health kaimahi, or workers, in Te Tai Tokerau are using their own time take tamariki to the dentist; The Crown has agreed to pay more than 53 million dollars up front to a group of northern iwi, so they can buy dairy farms; A Maori economics lecturer in Australia says because the first Aboriginal MP is a woman and indigenous, it's expected she'll be under more scrutiny than any other MPs.