Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 13, 2023 6:27:48 GMT 12
FOON CALLS FOR ACTION OVER POOR MĀORI HEALTH OUTCOMES
Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon is calling for a more targeted approach to healthcare funding to address poor outcomes for Māori living in Tairāwhiti.
Speaking to Local Democracy Reporting, Foon said Māori continued to bear the brunt of inequality, the result of historical injustice that had led to poverty.
“Māori had land and they had wealth. They had the economics, therefore they could provide for their . . . health and educational wellbeing,” Foon said.
“Since the signing of Te Tiriti, all of that has diminished. It’s intergenerational.”
He pointed to the Tohunga Suppression Act 1907 — legislation intended to stop tangata whenua using traditional healing practices of a spiritual nature — as an example of the way Māori had been oppressed through colonisation.
“It really suppressed Māori health and wellbeing.”....
www.gisborneherald.co.nz/foon-calls-for-action-over-poor-maori-health-outcomes
Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon is calling for a more targeted approach to healthcare funding to address poor outcomes for Māori living in Tairāwhiti.
Speaking to Local Democracy Reporting, Foon said Māori continued to bear the brunt of inequality, the result of historical injustice that had led to poverty.
“Māori had land and they had wealth. They had the economics, therefore they could provide for their . . . health and educational wellbeing,” Foon said.
“Since the signing of Te Tiriti, all of that has diminished. It’s intergenerational.”
He pointed to the Tohunga Suppression Act 1907 — legislation intended to stop tangata whenua using traditional healing practices of a spiritual nature — as an example of the way Māori had been oppressed through colonisation.
“It really suppressed Māori health and wellbeing.”....
www.gisborneherald.co.nz/foon-calls-for-action-over-poor-maori-health-outcomes