When what is truly needed is equity.
Which surely, he must know. I really find it difficult to believe that he'd be so badly educated or ill informed as to be unaware of the difference.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/36059120...ox-cricket
"Wheeler said that his eldest daughter was nine, & his son was seven - evidence showed that a Maori baby born today would die at the same time as both these Maori children.
I want that to sink in for a moment. The equity gap (for average life expectancy) is eight years for males & seven years for females...if this isn't the clearest example of how we fail to meet our Treaty obligations...I don't know what is."
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/23/an-ode...f-seymour/
Which surely, he must know. I really find it difficult to believe that he'd be so badly educated or ill informed as to be unaware of the difference.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/36059120...ox-cricket
"Wheeler said that his eldest daughter was nine, & his son was seven - evidence showed that a Maori baby born today would die at the same time as both these Maori children.
I want that to sink in for a moment. The equity gap (for average life expectancy) is eight years for males & seven years for females...if this isn't the clearest example of how we fail to meet our Treaty obligations...I don't know what is."
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/23/an-ode...f-seymour/
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
