2 x Articles - Whanau Ora, Te Mata peak

[Kiwi Frontline]

TAXPAYER MONEY WILL BE SPENT UNFAIRLY VIA WHANAU ORA

Race-based spending initiatives announced in the Wellbeing-Budget (such as an extra $80 million for Whanau Ora) will lead to wasteful and unfair outcomes, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union.

“When taxpayers’ money is used on welfare, health services, or educational assistance, it should be laser-targeted towards areas of need, taking into account individual circumstances. In this Budget, spending is too often targeted through the single lens of race.”.....

www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1905/S00459/taxpayer-money-will-be-spent-unfairly-via-whanau-ora.htm

[Kiwi Frontline]

INFAMOUS TRACK ON TE MATA PEAK EXPOSES RACISM

Ngāti Kahungunu iwi and hapū members have been subject to racism following their support for the removal of the highly contentious Craggy Range track on Te Mata Peak, but Ngāti Kahungunu Chair Ngahiwi Tomoana says there has been a shift in public opinion, with strong support now to have it removed.

“When the Pākehā carved the track on Rongokako, things got quite heated between the Māori and the Pākehā community,” says Tomoana.

Ngāti Kahungunu opposed the track that had been cut on their ancestral mountain Rongokako, but, in doing so, received an outpouring of public backlash and vocal remarks of racism.

“Due to their ignorance at that time, racist and difficult comments were made every day towards Māori families and tribal members. They were yelling at us and shouting at us,” he says......

www.maoritelevision.com/news/regional/infamous-track-on-te-mata-peak-exposes-racism