That's just dimes and nickles Felix.

The convergence of National and Maori Party interests around the outsourcing of social service delivery will undoubtedly be an area to watch over the coming year. But I think that National has some work to do.

How do you credibly pursue this line when your best days in opposition have spent hounding Waiparera, the Wananga, and any other community based organisation receiving govt money beginning with 'Te'?

It also seems to me that Maori community organisations have been making their own way fairly well in recent years, with an alternate funding stream in place through the Treaty settlement process.