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Māori news stories for the week ending 16 December 2011: omnibus excerpt

Sir Henare Ngata passed away on Sunday aged 93 years. Sir Henare served with the Māri Battalion’s Company C during the Second World War. In 1982 he was knighted for services to Māori. Sir Henare Ngata passed away on Sunday aged 93 years. Sir Henare served with the Māri Battalion’s
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Quality of the policy agreements: omnibus excerpt

From week ending 16 December 2011  Of the fifteen proposed policy agreements, in our view ten are relatively bland and non-directional; as they either restate existing services objectives (e.g. insulate state houses), or are written too generically to drive meaningful policy change (i.e. improve results for Māori learners at school,