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New Zealand's growing Asian population is putting pressure on an already overloaded court system, a prominent lawyer says.

Minister of Māori Development Tama Potaka says he didn't know about the coalition ruling out the Treaty clause in its RMA reform.

The government is reaching across the aisle to identify any common ground with its political opponents on its overhaul of the Resource Management Act.

Frustrated senior doctors say millions of dollars of taxpayer money going to private hospitals to do elective operations could help many more patients, if it was invested in the ailing public system.