We have to take a long, hard look at why the system has failed Maori despite three decades of progress in certain areas. There has been a significant growth in professional and middle-class layers amongst Maori which is a good thing. There has been an expansion in Maori-run businesses and assets under Maori control that deliver services directly to Maori people.
The bosses who are usually white use that fact to encourage us to think of them as people who we should share a common bond with. When they are more successful in these endeavors – like in the US Southern states – all working people are worse off – white and black.
The problem with the current measures being taken by the Reserve Bank to rescue the economy from an economic collapse is that they are directed at rescuing the wealth of the owners of big business not meeting the needs of the big majority of working people.
Employers in the agriculture sector who are screaming for help to pick their crops deserve to suffer a bit of pain.
Bernard Hickey’s view, worth highlighting this quote…
In just a few days thousands of Kiwis have signed a petition to give migrants stuck in New Zealand who had made New Zealand their home a pathway to residency.
A “Pathways to Residency” petition has been launched on Action Station for “normally resident migrant workers who have made New Zealand their home and deserve a place of sanctuary in today’s post-Covid world.”
By running a campaign almost devoid of policy the government has given its supporters a blank page upon which we need to write our concerns and needs, and those of the planet we live on, into a policy for our mutual survival.
An urgent priority of the new government is to end the madness of business as usual in state or local government controlled bodies.
“There is no alternative” or TINA was the famous cry associated with the former Prime Minister Of the UK Margaret Thatcher and the introduction of free-market fundamentalism into government policy.