The Māori Party and Greens are benefiting from the demographic change
The median age of a Māori voter is 25 and it is 39 for Pakeha.
This election will see GenX + Millennials become a larger voting block than Boomers for the first time in NZ history.
This means the Māori Party and the Greens are benefitting from a demographic change National can’t compete against.
One of the reasons National is failing to get significantly ahead of Labour is because they are not resonating with the new demographics of the electorate where as ACT are stealing National’s youth vote.
The question is will this new demographic come out to vote? They are very connected online but does that extend to the Ballot box?
Will the new demographics be apathetic to politics altogether or will they be disillusioned with the lack of actual gains?
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As a pakeha I see many Maori that do not vote do not take part in cencus do not get their children vaccinated or push for their education . What needs to be done to get them involved more ?
The Waipareira Trust does all that and more. What you can do is give your party vote to the Maori and support Whanau Ora funding. Have a nice day friend.
Trevor, I doubt that there’s anything we Pakeha can do. Many years ago, in the course of my work, I met the “it’s too Pakeha for me” attitude. It seems to have escalated, rather than diminished.
Some people see by-Maori for-Maori services as the answer. But there are two things wrong with that approach.
Firstly, it’s apartheid, a concept considered to be pernicious in the extreme when I was younger, and against which my generation campaigned.
Secondly, it appears not to have been successful, at least where education is concerned. We’ve had kohanga reo since the very early 80s, and kura kaupapa since not long after. School attendance rates have been as low in the kura as elsewhere, I believe, and the language has fallen off a cliff since the first kohanga were established. Even though they were set up to preserve and promote the language.
Amy strategies for turning around dire statistics must come from Maori themselves, it seems.
I’m glad you mentioned ACT is stealing Nationals youth vote because people are going to be shocked by how libertarian GEN Z and GEN A are compared to GEN Y.
At the moment members of gen Y and older members of Gen Z are still the dominant voices in pop culture and media and we tend to lean left wing and for bigger govt and are pro censorship to protect people from being offended.
But every generation rebels against the previous generation.
Younger members of gen z tend to trend more libertarian ie pro drug reform and LGBT+ but are anti censorship and because they missed much of their formative years in high school and uni to COVID restrictions have a different view on this than gen y.
I think ACT is going to be the party of choice for libertarian gen z’ers and gen a-ers cos national is too beige and the Greens lost their libertarian streak when Nandor left
2023 is going to be mostly older gen z but 2026 and 2029 is going to be interesting to see where gen z and gen a go if there’s no liberertarian left party
Baby boomers all take that drug that makes them live longer.
Adrenachrome? Taken from abducted children?
I’ve always believed in increased Maori representation in parliament and one reason for this is the hope that it will spur on more Maori involvement and engagement in undertaking the census and in voting.
Mark: “How about inclusion in political policy making.”
Maori have had as much right to have a say over the political process as have any other group in society. That’s how a representative democracy works.
If Maori were to have more say than any other part of society, this would cease to be a democracy.
Today, we had a glimps, of what a Maori, sepratist rule would look like, and the speaker, openly angerd, with insult and frustration i assume, about his limitations in constitution that he could do, not for Pakeha or Maori, but for the respect of our place Aotearoa New Zealand.
Today, we had a glimps, of what a Maori, sepratist rule would look like, and the speaker, openly angerd, with insult and frustration i assume, about his limitations in constitution that he could do, not for Pakeha or Maori, but for the respect of our place Aotearoa New Zealand.