The new govt's policies on various things will set back race relation by decades according to commentators.
David Syemour seems to be either an uninformed idiot or he's a racist; I wonder which it is...
'They've burnt the house down': Commentators fear new Govt will set race relations back by decades (msn.com)
"Three parties have come together, but some fear their policies will tear the country apart.
"I think they've burnt the house down and literally repealing everything that they assume to be race-based," Māori affairs commentator Mihingarangi Forbes said.
"We've got to get away from the idea that all Māori are disadvantaged, they're not. And we've got to get away from the idea that disadvantaged people are Māori, that's not true either," said ACT leader David Seymour.
Several of the ACT Party and New Zealand First's policies being adopted by the new Government that relate to Māori and the Treaty of Waitangi include:
Critics say yesterday's announcements put Aotearoa's progress on race relations back several decades.
"Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a legislative, legal document, so I think we need to treat such documents the respect they deserve. They should be protected from Governments going this way or that way," said senior emergency medicine doctor Elspeth Frascatore.
"I think the Treaty has been robustly analysed and defined by our most brightest legal minds in the country, and historians both Māori and Pakeha," Forbes said.
"If it's up for more discussion, the place for that is with them not so much with the general public."
Throwing out 16 months of work creating the Māori Health Authority is devastating for Frascatore.
"It makes you worry, for will any health initiative be able to survive changes in Government? I strongly believe that health needs to follow the evidence," she said."
David Syemour seems to be either an uninformed idiot or he's a racist; I wonder which it is...
'They've burnt the house down': Commentators fear new Govt will set race relations back by decades (msn.com)
"Three parties have come together, but some fear their policies will tear the country apart.
"I think they've burnt the house down and literally repealing everything that they assume to be race-based," Māori affairs commentator Mihingarangi Forbes said.
"We've got to get away from the idea that all Māori are disadvantaged, they're not. And we've got to get away from the idea that disadvantaged people are Māori, that's not true either," said ACT leader David Seymour.
Several of the ACT Party and New Zealand First's policies being adopted by the new Government that relate to Māori and the Treaty of Waitangi include:
- removing co-governance for public services
- introducing a Treaty Principles Bill to define the Treaty
- disestablishing the Māori Health Authority
- re-writing the school history curriculum
- scrapping the use of te reo Māori in Government departments
Critics say yesterday's announcements put Aotearoa's progress on race relations back several decades.
"Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a legislative, legal document, so I think we need to treat such documents the respect they deserve. They should be protected from Governments going this way or that way," said senior emergency medicine doctor Elspeth Frascatore.
"I think the Treaty has been robustly analysed and defined by our most brightest legal minds in the country, and historians both Māori and Pakeha," Forbes said.
"If it's up for more discussion, the place for that is with them not so much with the general public."
Throwing out 16 months of work creating the Māori Health Authority is devastating for Frascatore.
"It makes you worry, for will any health initiative be able to survive changes in Government? I strongly believe that health needs to follow the evidence," she said."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)