Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 15, 2020 14:04:01 GMT 12
Bob Edlin: RACE-BASED AGING POLICY
“Older” New Zealanders have been defined for policy purposes in a press statement that emerged from the office of Health Minister David Clark at the weekend.
And guess what? Being “older” depends not on when you were born but on your ethnicity, which is something we define for ourselves.
A distinction between “older” Maori and Pacific people, compared with the rest of the country’s “older” people, was drawn at much the same time as the government was affirming its funding of another race-based programme.
The 2020 Budget will include support in the mental health domain for services by Māori for Māori.
But what’s going on with “older” New Zealanders and the way they are being officially defined?.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2020/05/bob-edlin-race-based-aging-policy.html
“Older” New Zealanders have been defined for policy purposes in a press statement that emerged from the office of Health Minister David Clark at the weekend.
And guess what? Being “older” depends not on when you were born but on your ethnicity, which is something we define for ourselves.
A distinction between “older” Maori and Pacific people, compared with the rest of the country’s “older” people, was drawn at much the same time as the government was affirming its funding of another race-based programme.
The 2020 Budget will include support in the mental health domain for services by Māori for Māori.
But what’s going on with “older” New Zealanders and the way they are being officially defined?.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2020/05/bob-edlin-race-based-aging-policy.html