The Maori Party's often controversial MP Hone Harawira says the Prime Minister was "pandering to rednecks" over the foreshore and seabed deal.

Maori groups awarded customary title in the foreshore and seabed will be the legal owners of it and the minerals beneath it.

The Govt will introduce a new property title that can be claimed over the foreshore and seabed.

National has relaxed the threshold for claiming customary title but the iwi leaders want it relaxed even further.

It is not up to the Minister of Sport to investigate allegations of racial team selection, says Murray McCully.

Rugby World Cup ambassador Andy Haden should reveal who told him about a cap on Polynesian players at the Crusaders, or resign, the Maori Party says.

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John Key says giving Te Urewera to Tuhoe could have opened the way for other iwi to put strong cases for ownership of national parks.

International media are having a ball with John Key's Tuhoe "cannibalism joke" and "passive-aggressive" apology.

'Cabinet is not so different from a marae committee meeting,' Tuhoe representative Tamati Kruger says.

Tuhoe are holding emergency hui to discuss John Key's announcement that iwi ownership of the Urewera National Park is off the negotiating table.