About 25 percent of prisoners have been refused leave to attend a tangi or funeral in the past five years; The Maori Party has launched its health strategy, which includes calling for a review in to how to implement Maori medicines in to government legislation; National has pushed its Treaty of Waitangi settlements deadline out by another three years; The new Maori Trustee, Te Tumu Paeroa, has announced it will invest in a bio pharmaceutical company that creates products using honey and bee venom.