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Hill said the focus might involve supporting skills programmes being run by the council-backed Southern Initiative in Manukau, which helped the hardest-to-employ, into construction work and other trades. The agency is also involved in revived discussion about Te Papa developing a new facility in Manukau, perhaps with a strong Māori and Pacific Island flavour. Hill said that could boost creative enterprises in the area. "Pasifika, Māori, the whole cultural creative piece is something that is very strong and at the centre of what they are about," he said. Young entrepreneurs in Manukau have previously argued ATEED had not recognised the economic potential in the area's creative strength. - www.stuff.co.nz