Te Manu Korihi News for 27 June 2013

The government is attempting to re-start Treaty settlement talks with an eastern Bay of Plenty tribe fiercely opposed to deep-sea oil drilling; The government says it will work to bring down the high price of insurance for marae - some of which pay more than 12-thousand-dollars a year in premiums; The Green Party candidate for the Ikaroa-Rawhiti seat will today launch her plan for how the eastern Maori electorate will benefit from 'green jobs'; Two Maori-owned dairy operations have received Crown funding to develop natural probiotic dairy milk products - which are to be sold in Asian and New Zealand markets.