Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 12, 2023 9:37:21 GMT 12
THE 2023 ELECTION IN RETROSPECT – Michael Bassett.
However, over the last twenty years the tribal elites began inventing arguments that under the Treaty of Waitangi Maori were entitled to more and more from the taxpayer. A growth industry in Treaty fiction emerged. Before long, a 1987 Court declaration that the Treaty of Waitangi was “something akin to a partnership” between Maori and the Crown developed into a call for a 50-50 split in governance over all resources, despite Maori numbering barely 17% of the population. There was no notion amongst the noisy elites that they might encourage their followers to acquire skills. It’s all been a one-way street. Tribal governance by its very nature is undemocratic. And as all governments have learned to their cost, when privileges and cash are being distributed, there is a supply and demand problem: demand outstrips the taxpayers’ capacity to supply.
The Ardern-Hipkins government with its big numbers of Maori in the Labour caucus bought into the tribal elites’ argument that special assistance, to be enjoyed by no other ethnicity, should be delivered to Maori. Nanaia Mahuta was allowed to embark on her Three Waters scheme, intended eventually to deliver control over all water to Maori. In the health sector where it was obvious to everyone that Maori were less careful with their lifestyles than others, and showed fewer signs of giving up smoking, or eating more carefully, or properly parenting their children, a new separately funded health structure was put in place to try to ensure Maori lived longer. There was nothing stopping them from taking greater care of themselves, or making sure that their children received the multiple services already available to them like childhood vaccinations and free GP visits.....
www.nzcpr.com/the-2023-election-in-retrospect/
However, over the last twenty years the tribal elites began inventing arguments that under the Treaty of Waitangi Maori were entitled to more and more from the taxpayer. A growth industry in Treaty fiction emerged. Before long, a 1987 Court declaration that the Treaty of Waitangi was “something akin to a partnership” between Maori and the Crown developed into a call for a 50-50 split in governance over all resources, despite Maori numbering barely 17% of the population. There was no notion amongst the noisy elites that they might encourage their followers to acquire skills. It’s all been a one-way street. Tribal governance by its very nature is undemocratic. And as all governments have learned to their cost, when privileges and cash are being distributed, there is a supply and demand problem: demand outstrips the taxpayers’ capacity to supply.
The Ardern-Hipkins government with its big numbers of Maori in the Labour caucus bought into the tribal elites’ argument that special assistance, to be enjoyed by no other ethnicity, should be delivered to Maori. Nanaia Mahuta was allowed to embark on her Three Waters scheme, intended eventually to deliver control over all water to Maori. In the health sector where it was obvious to everyone that Maori were less careful with their lifestyles than others, and showed fewer signs of giving up smoking, or eating more carefully, or properly parenting their children, a new separately funded health structure was put in place to try to ensure Maori lived longer. There was nothing stopping them from taking greater care of themselves, or making sure that their children received the multiple services already available to them like childhood vaccinations and free GP visits.....
www.nzcpr.com/the-2023-election-in-retrospect/