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Auckland DHB has a plan to stamp out institutional racism.

Busloads of activists are arriving at Ihumātao, where a protest is growing.

At the Ihumātao protest site, they're feeling sad but very determined.

The Crown has breached the Treaty by failing to improve Maori health, tribunal says.

Crown actions 'frequently' alienated native land in favour of Pākehā settlement.

It's been a long, painful process to have the grievance recognised and acknowledged.

The iwi have fought the Crown's settlement with Pare Hauraki.

The claimant groups are being heard in the Waitangi Tribunal from Monday.

New Zealand's biggest Waitangi Tribunal inquiry is drawing to a close.

COMMENT: The tribunal has decided to hear from lawyers taking the Corrections Department to task over their handling of Maori in prisons.

Kaihatu Te Kenehi Teira, of Heritage New Zealand, said a wahi tupuna is a place important to Maori for ancestral significance and cultural and traditional values.

Winston Peters sounds genuinely interested in a request from subtribes of Ngapuhi to intercede in the dispute that is standing in the way of a Treaty settlement the Northland region needs.

If the Waitangi Tribunal is right in saying the chiefs of 1840 did not cede sovereignty when they signed the Treaty, the reason was probably that they had more practical concerns on their minds.

Catherine Delahunty writes: Gareth Morgan has many interesting opinions and is well informed but his opinion piece on Maori representation on local councils requires a response.

"I'm p***ed off". Tau Henare is furious at being bumped off the speaking list at last week's Waitangi Tribunal hearing.

A recent Waitangi Tribunal decision confirmed what Ngaphui always claimed, says Te Tai Tokerau MP Kelvin Davis.

Tribunal report says Maori chiefs who signed the Treaty of Waitangi did not cede sovereignty but Treaty Negotations Minister says that doesn't change Crown's position.

Trout, deer, pigs and other exotic species would have to be culled from the Ureweras under a law change before Parliament, fishers and hunters are warning Government.

Prime Minister John Key says Sir Douglas Graham might have given up his knighthood had the Government not told him he didn't have to.

The huge accommodation block of the wrecked container ship Rena is to be removed, in a major move revealed by the ship's owners and insurers today.

Editorial: The whole country ought to be celebrating the historic settlement with Tuhoe signed at Parliament last week.

Stripping honours for reasons other than traditional crimes, is a relatively new phenomenon sparked by the global financial crisis, writes Claire Trevett.

Three more key members of Sir Owen Glenn's inquiry into child abuse and domestic violence have quit in sympathy with the inquiry's founding director, Ruth Herbert.

The Waitangi Tribunal has recommended a settlement package for Far North iwi Ngati Kahu totalling $42.518 million.

The Prime Minister was never more wrong last year than when he declared the Government could ignore a recommendation of the Waitangi Tribunal.