Te Waonui a TMK for 5 November 2017

Northland has the highest percentage of Maori in the country but somehow have managed to end up with just one Maori face at a council table; The Government has been criticised once again for negotiating with an iwi mandated body that did not have the backing of one of the hapu it claimed to represent, there's new hope in Ngapuhi of rebooting the pre-settlement talks that stalled before the election and three generations of urban Maori from 23 different whanau have shared their struggles and successes of living in West Auckland.