Te Manu Korihi News for 17 September 2014

An Auckland tribal leader is threatening legal action to stop one of the Government's new fast tracked housing developments, if the council doesn't consult with mana whenua. The United Sub-tribes of Ngapuhi says the Minister of Justice, Chris Finlayson, should be ashamed of himself for criticising the Waitangi Tribunal. The Green Party says people with new-born babies will get a flax woven sleeping pod, called a wahakura, if it's voted into Government. The Maori Party has launched its new Whanau Ora policy.