Police acted "unlawfully, unjustifiably and unreasonably" in establishing road blocks, and detaining and searching people during the Urewera raids six years ago, the police watchdog says.

Police involved in the Urewera dawn raids had still not fully co-operated with the agency investigating their actions five years after the controversial operation.

The lawyer for Maori activist Tame Iti is confident his application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against his conviction and sentence will be successful.

Paul Rush tramps the Great Walk around the fabled 'Sea of Rippling Waters'.

With its ever-unfolding ranges of thick primordial forest, Te Urewera is a treasure.

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.

The 2007 'anti-terror raids' reaffirmed old suspicions and helped quicken the enthusiasm for a "Tuhoe Nation", writes historian Paul Moon.

Tuhoe representatives believe they had Cabinet numbers to secure ownership of Te Urewera National Park but say a nervous prime minister acting unilaterally stood in the way.

National's decision to rule out giving Tuhoe the Te Urewera National Park as part of its settlement was prompted by 'a failure of nerve', the tribe says.

National's stack of agreements with the Maori Party may spark Cabinet dissent.

A body found near the Urewera National Park by hunters last month has been identified as that of a 1982 murder victim.