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Thursday, 22 November 2012, 4:30 pm
Press Release: Marae Investigates

This week on Marae Investigates - We go inside the secretive world of the Notorious Mongrel Mob who speak candidly about the detox programme they say is saving lives. In the studio mental health campaigner Mike King talks about a new initiative that aims to take the suicide rate to zero and we have an exclusive interview with the retiring CEO of Te Puni Kokiri about his 11 years heading the Ministry. We also have the first airing of the trailer for Stan Walker’s debut movie ‘Mt Zion’.

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