maori protest first day of parliament

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The issue is its not an efficient way to spend the money with two separate health systems and for what purpose?
It also doesn't look good when patients race is taken preference for waiting lists, etc.
You can see why the public were mad about this don't you?
Most hospitals have maori wards anyway and generally I got the impression that maori needs were catered for quite well.
I really hate the division and I hope luxon can address it.

Two points...

I have never heard of there being separate hospital wards for Maori - given that hospitals are generally laid out by medical need, it would seem impractical to have specific maori only wards?  

The division you talk of has been caused by historical injustice decades in the making - the only way to truly fix the problem is to address the historical injustice.  Platitudes and burying your head in the sand only delays the process and can never fix the division in such a way that ALL New Zealanders will not feel marginalised.