WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Māori Queen’s multi-million-dollar investment platform outshines safe Labour policy announcement
Two big political events over weekend with the Labour Party Conference in Auckland and the inaugural Ōhanga ki te Ao Māori Economic Summit in Hamilton.
Labour’s conference launched safe sensible policy to a fired up Party Membership but it was the Māori Queen’s multi-million-dollar investment platform that really caused heads to turn.
How Māoridom leverage their $126 billion economy when this current Government have done all they can to undermine the Treaty and denigrate Māori is now a real challenge for the Māori economy.
This new investment model promoted by the Queen had real heavyweights attending from Air New Zealand chief executive Greg Foran to former Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr.
This was a serious and robust conference highlighting the real economic muscle Māori now have and without a clear partner in terms of the Crown, they are seeking their own Investment Funds and Economic sovereignty.
The chief executive of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds, Duncan Bonfield, manages $10 trillion in assets and he was at the Māori Economic Summit in Hamilton. A major player like that appearing alongside NZ’s own cream of the crop CEOs and Economic minds shows how important the Māori Economy now is.
Labour had a safe conference with very mild policy ideas to win the middle, the Queen however showed she had no reservations in promoting transformative change.
I think New Zealand’s economic dynamism will be Māori led.
Maori are leading the change NZ needs even though the political wing has collapsed in a pile of shit .They will be better off without the Tamihere party input any way .
The younger generation are now clearly leading the way with the Queen and Hanna showing the way .The Queen should appoint Hanna to a lead roll in place of Tuku, who has done his time ,there by saving Hanna from being lost in the political mire .Even Time magazine sees her as a strong future leader .
Well done and long may you reign .
The Maori Queen will show that Maori can achieve great thinks without the disgusting display put up by TPM.
You said it Trev and the thinking and the expertise and morality will have to be watched on the basis that everybody can get carried away by lots of noughts, and can be naughty. So no favourites, no cozzies who get excuses made for them, as that has been a downfall in the past.