Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 13, 2019 7:11:41 GMT 12
Weekend Sun / Sunlive 13/9/19
WAITANGI TRIBUNAL TRIVIA
So the Waitangi Tribunal reports that a ban on prisoner voting disproportionally hurts Maori and breaches the Treaty.
Their report implies that Maori prisoners should be treated differently to all of the others despite the current position being equally fair or unfair on all prisoners.
Another reason the Tribunal gave is the likelihood of Maori released from prison not re-enrolling to vote. That implies that prisoners of other races are more likely to register. Why should we molly-coddle Maori ex-prisoners?
Wasting time on such trivia shows that either the Waitangi Tribunal is no longer necessary, or more likely simply over resourced, and we taxpayers are suffering unnecessarily.
This type of report and a vociferous, small number of other people, allegedly representing Maori, encourages a victim mentality which I believe is a significant part of Maoridom’s problem.
Yet there are more than enough good living and sensible Maori who are working for their people, and if those had been better listened to over the last few decades Maori would be far more ahead in a social and economic sense than they are now. [abridged for length]
BILL CAPAMAGIAN, Tauranga
ISSUES OF TRUST
Debbi Thyne [The Weekend Sun, August 30] writing on 11 Mission St, asserts the issue is about trust.
She is absolutely right. Eleven Mission St was bought by Tauranga City Council, with ratepayers’ money, with the sole intent that it be added to The Elms estate.
Ratepayers and the community have every right to expect that that promise would be fulfilled.
Eleven Mission St is on private land, part of that which was originally sold by Maori, and bought and paid for in 1838 by the Church Missionary Society.
The Otamataha Trust already has major say in The Elms having 2 of the 7 Board of Trustee members aligned with it.
For the council to renege on the promise would be simply a breach of faith and a betrayal of The Elms, ratepayers and the community.
RICHARD PRINCE, Welcome Bay
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WAITANGI TRIBUNAL TRIVIA
So the Waitangi Tribunal reports that a ban on prisoner voting disproportionally hurts Maori and breaches the Treaty.
Their report implies that Maori prisoners should be treated differently to all of the others despite the current position being equally fair or unfair on all prisoners.
Another reason the Tribunal gave is the likelihood of Maori released from prison not re-enrolling to vote. That implies that prisoners of other races are more likely to register. Why should we molly-coddle Maori ex-prisoners?
Wasting time on such trivia shows that either the Waitangi Tribunal is no longer necessary, or more likely simply over resourced, and we taxpayers are suffering unnecessarily.
This type of report and a vociferous, small number of other people, allegedly representing Maori, encourages a victim mentality which I believe is a significant part of Maoridom’s problem.
Yet there are more than enough good living and sensible Maori who are working for their people, and if those had been better listened to over the last few decades Maori would be far more ahead in a social and economic sense than they are now. [abridged for length]
BILL CAPAMAGIAN, Tauranga
ISSUES OF TRUST
Debbi Thyne [The Weekend Sun, August 30] writing on 11 Mission St, asserts the issue is about trust.
She is absolutely right. Eleven Mission St was bought by Tauranga City Council, with ratepayers’ money, with the sole intent that it be added to The Elms estate.
Ratepayers and the community have every right to expect that that promise would be fulfilled.
Eleven Mission St is on private land, part of that which was originally sold by Maori, and bought and paid for in 1838 by the Church Missionary Society.
The Otamataha Trust already has major say in The Elms having 2 of the 7 Board of Trustee members aligned with it.
For the council to renege on the promise would be simply a breach of faith and a betrayal of The Elms, ratepayers and the community.
RICHARD PRINCE, Welcome Bay
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers