National Party Leader, Christopher Luxon is struggling to make sense in the race relations debate we are currently having in this country.
At Ratana he had the audacity to describe the 3 Waters and Co-Governance debate as ‘divisive and immature’ but with the NZ Right being the loudest and most toxic voices in that debate, it’s a bit like an arsonist blaming the matches for the fire he has lit.
Christopher doubled down by questioning why we have the Māori Electorates and then managed to denounce the Māori Health Authority as speartisim while promising Iwi the health cash.
Christopher knows your average ACT and National voter have no idea what the Māori Health Authority actually is. Most of them think it’s an actual Māori Hospital that won’t allow white people into it which couldn’t be further from the truth.
The Māori Health Authority is simply a bureaucratic structure that attempts to prioritise better health outcomes for Māori, out of a Health budget of tens of billions it is a mere $170m.
Christopher is denouncing it and painting it as separatist while then promising the cash go direct to Iwi health providers.
While Iwi Health providers SHOULD be given extra funds, replacing the Māori Health Authority simply means National will ghettoise Māori Health.
Our public health services must be attuned to providing Māori with culturally appropriate services that lead to better outcomes but by handing the money directly to Iwi providers, a National Government could simply shrug off criticism that the public health services are failing Māori because we’ve given Iwi providers the money.
Māori health isn’t either or.
We need more funding of Iwi health providers AND we need more Māori Health Authority influence in the Public health system.
National are playing political games with Māori health and that is as deeply saddening as it is outrageous.
First published on Waatea News.
I watched a weird disjointed tv ad on Sky Sport with a Maori physio about to treat a Maori patient….wtf was that all about??? Typical…”let’s do a tv campaign and blow heaps of budget.”
Highly likely using elements of Rongoa Māori on his/her charge. I expect same physio would be well familiar with what you think of as physio.
Such treatment need not necessarily be restricted to Maori, my pakeha as daughter has completed her first Rongoa Maori course.
Do we need a MHA to have people go to a physio? Those that want to go, go anyway.
This guy is definitely White, Pale and Stale. Typical Sheep Sh****** from Canterbury IMHO.
Luxton, Seymour and Winston all appealing to the Red Neck Voters.
Consider the broader picture? Maori are being cynically exploited to create friction where their could very easily be none. I’ve been interested politics long enough now to see patterns forming in the ol’ political divide to concur strategy. That hideous, nasty, little bully, pig muldoon, was a master of that particular dark art.
The only thing luxon will be having a difficult time with will be keeping a straight face at how easily we are at being manipulated.
The real issues we face is of who’s got the money, how did they get the money and how come nine multi billionaires and four foreign owned banks stealing record multiples of billions dollars out of our economy in net profits have the bulk of it?
Luxon has no interest it Maori, that’s why he’s ignorant of Maori. Luxon’s interests are in this order. Himself, his head polish supply and getting his hands on more and more and more of our money.
By the way. *We need a public inquiry into ‘Ag Action’, ‘Groundswell’, Federated farmers and their relationships to the national party , banking and the wealthy urban elite. ( They’re not that elite really. They’re just wankers with no conscience.)
* More important than you could believe.
The old “Divide and Rule Principle”, start a Race War when there isn’t one.
Luxton stealing Seymour and Winston’s thunder, time to roll out the old dinosaur Dr Don Brash to really get the ball rolling.
Agree +100%
Just silly.
100% again Countryboy. More in depth analysis to this shows a deeper understanding than many on this site.
“‘Ag Action’, ‘Groundswell’, Federated farmers and their relationships to the national party , banking and the wealthy urban elite.”
Follow the money.
Silly always agrees with silly.
Both policies are wrong.
What will “ghettoise Māori health” is leaving everyone living in a ghetto!
Of course the neoliberals seem to have banned any discussion of slum clearance, Full Employment Policy, or desegregationist housing projects.
Social Security was supposed to provide entirely free healthcare: medicines were originally free, and primary care clinics were supposed to bulk bill the government for G.P. appointments (which meant those were free also).
The mistake M.J. Savage made was that he didn’t make primary care clinics a permanent part of the national health service. At one time there were free primary care clinics being operated by the hospitals, which should have become the centre of the entire system.
Native language services is one area where something “separate” is required. The Department should liase with the tribes to ensure this is available at major clinics.
Maybe Luxon feels the Māori Health Authority is just another bureaucracy that soaks up cash that could go to the front line. We are committed to delivering culturally sensitive and effective health services to Māori but don’t give a shit about the Asian Indian and other ethnic groups who have been here as long as the colonial pakeha. If we are going to pursue good health results for Maori who may be disadvantaged economically and with language, surely these other groups are just as deserving. Maybe an Ethnic Health Authority might be appropriate. Somehow these other groups manage with our existing health care as much as possible with the broken system that it is. Like with most systems we already have they just need better funding and administration.
@ new view. ( The view from your 18th ‘investment property’ have a better view than the previous 17? )
“…Maybe Luxon feels the Māori Health Authority is just another bureaucracy that soaks up cash that could go to the front line. …”
Which front line? Do you mean the now nine multi *billionaires front line? Or the foreign bank front line? Or the myriad hangers on to the false economy, house-price con-job, front line? There are so many front lines it’s hard to know which greed infested, otherwise illegal, crooked, insider-trading grab-fest you’re talking about.
Try reality? Give that a go? Maori are treated like dirt. That’s a fact. Maori are a minority not of wealth or social privilege like their abusers, but of being an indigenous people being pushed into the ocean for a power freaks frisson and to turn over good coin. Aye Boys?
* A million dollars is one thousand, thousands. A thousand dollars looks fucking awesome when you need to buy groceries and get a WOF on the car.
A billion dollars is a million, millions and each million remember is a thousand, thousands. That’s a fuck load of bread and milks and a lot of WOF’s.
Now, not wanting to single out graham hart necessarily but fuck it. graham is 67 years old. He can smell money. He’s the guy with quite the Kiwi Saver account. He is AO/NZ’s wealthiest man if wealth were to be measured in how much of the money one had piled up in a spare room. He was around ten of the billions of dollars which is ten times one thousand millions which are one thousand millions each which is one thousand thousands. Now, call me old fashioned if you must but graham? Really? And luxon… You’re starting to look like dicks. Especially you, luxon. Heard of toupee’s dear?
The rich have spun us a line of logical fallacies which we, in our innocence while under manufactured ignorance have swallowed and all washed down by a rich wanker influenced/owned MSM. We think that it is, in fact, our own fault that we’re their playthings to appease what ever psychologists might label their dysfunctions aka narcissistic madness’s. New View and his mate luxon work hard to splatter their logical fallacies around but when viewed with cold, Spock-like logic all we’ll see is sad gas bags self legitimising their greed at the expense of the powerless and vulnerable. Personally, I don’t think that’s right. Well, it IS Right though isn’t it and that’s the problem.
Mandate voting. Commission of Inquiry up everything Blue please, cheers, ta very much.
Agree NV.
Brilliant as always Countryboy. Informative and intellectual.
I think you might find a lot of it has to do with Māori health outcomes being shockingly bad. Those of Asian and Indian descent don’t stand out as being disproportionately represented in the statistics.
There are many people at the delivery end that think a separate authority makes sense whereas a lot of the noise comes from the rest of us that probably don’t have much of a clue and make it all about segregation in a negative context. It’s a bit like healthy people saying (less so now days) PHARMAC is awesome. Wait until you get a serious illness/disease in some therapy areas and see what you think.
New view there is a difference Maori are indigenous to New Zealand. All the rest of us come from other countries we are the immigrants. With respect there are many more immigrant nurses and doctors in our health services than Maori. Thats the difference. There will always be someone in the public health service able to translate the many different ethnic languages as needed, however unfortunately we can’t say that for Maori. There are compulsory culturally sensitive ethnic programs for all health personnel and treaty of Waitangi training for all health personnel . We all have the right to be treated with respect and respect means understanding peoples many differences. It does not mean pitting one against another and shamefully this is becoming the narrative in 2023 New Zealand .
I’m not against the Māori health authority and their existing clinics, I just don’t understand why it’s become necessary to have it. If our mixed race health professionals are so racially and culturally incompetent that they are causing the majority of Maori not to attend existing facilities surely the problem is to educate the health professionals and better fund what we have. They may not be the majority but there are still many Māori in existing health areas. I do understand the need in rural areas. Encouraging any race only to be served by their own, seems to be educating them to think only they can help themselves. Or only Maori can help Māori. It seems to me it’s more about self determination and possible sovereignty. If there are problems with our existing services why aren’t we fixing them.
The NZ Health system definitely needs fixing that Clown Key & National opened the flood gates on Immigration and forgot about Housing, Education & Health for the 600k+ new immigrants. Labour have been trying to play catch up over the past 5 years. Anyway it’s all Jacinda and Labour’s fault.
But he’s partially right – “describe the 3 Waters and Co-Governance debate as ‘divisive and immature’ ” is correct – there has been no attempt by Labeen to debate this or gain electorate buy-in, just pushing it down NZ’ers throats.
Just look at the crap they’re trying to force in to the science curriculum, all in the name of the so-called ‘principles’ of the Treaty, which don’t exist.
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/12/13/new-zealand-starting-a-curriculum-that-gives-indigenous-knowledge-equal-weight-to-the-traditional-world-view-of-science/
https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/12/peter-winsley-science-matauranga-maori.html
Nuke, wouldn’t you say Luxon is one of the reasons the debate is divisive? Agree the communication has been bad but National have been happily scaremongering despite implementing/overseeing co governance arrangements while in power
Maori Health Authority just sounds like money for bureaucrats. Probably what is really needed is just a lot more maori doctors and nurses. Especially nurses so that maori have first contact with scientific medicine through a nurse in their family, family friend circle, local community.
We can barely manage one health system without waiting lines, people fundraising and going overseas for treatment and the likes, but now we can have two and we base them on race. So inclusive. So progressive.
Oh RB you unwittingly hit the nail on the head. One of the reasons there are problems with our Health service are the disproportionate Maori patients with serious illnesses. The job of the new health authority is to fix these issues, in fixing these issues the health authority saves money for other things because our Maori population is overall healthier , a win win situation for NZ
Quite correct Queeny.
You need to remember Graham Hart was initially gifted a State Asset “The National Printing Press Business”, for a pittance by Roger Douglas and his cronies. That’s how he started on the road to his fortune, right place at the right time, knowing the right people, nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
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