Waatea News Column: Crown admits Māori health vandalism was purely political to win 2023 election
The Crown’s admission that scrapping the Māori Health Authority, minus any consultation with Māori, was nothing more than a political campaign to win the General Election in October is astounding and shocking.
This remarkable admission of the true motivations for dismantling the Māori Health Authority has come to light from the Crown’s own legal position on the issue after Lady Tureiti Moxon and Janice Kuka filed in the Waitangi Tribunal seeking an urgent inquiry into the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora.
The Crown’s response to this legal challenge is to admit Māori weren’t consulted, acknowledge they have no actual plan to deal with low Māori health outcomes and concede the entire decision was politically motivated to win an election.
Don’t believe me? The Crown in its’ memorandum to Lady Tureiti Moxon and Janice Kuka’s Waitangi Tribunal filing conceded “the decision has been made by the Government at the political level following political parties campaigning on this issue”.
So vandalizing public Māori Health was just a tactic to win an election?
The mainstream media should be leading with what Lady Tureiti Moxon and Janice Kuka have revealed here, their silence highlights just how much has changed since this hard right anti-Māori Government took power.
First published on Waatea News.
Of course it was, just like the coalitions bullshit approach to the use of Māori names. Forget that Nat Act were once championing the use of Māori, introduced co governance models etc. They are just full of it. They are not conservative or centre right, they are just arseholes pure and simple.
Nothing but outright racism from start to finish.
Wait, what… you’re trying to tell us that a bunch of politicians did something politial to win an election. Hold the presses… this should be front page news.
You call it political, I call it vindictive. Scrapping something that is there to solve a problem with Maori health without providing an alternative is callous & shows that this government only cares about those wealthy enough to support it.
This is so disgusting but will the MSM pick it up.
Any number of media channel presenters and pundits–need they be named really? from Mi Cockskin to the guy previously known as ‘man bun’, are all breezy and relaxed at the moment, because they have their tory heroes in office, and people to suck up to and brown nose rather than openly attack.
Māori health statistics in this post colonial era are obviously still the reason the new Health Authority was and is needed. Academia has scores of studies describing lower prescription rates for Māori (according to poncy Pākehā docs because they “won‘t take the medicines anyway”…could poverty be a factor…), low intake of Māori for doctor and nursing training…it just goes on.
The new Govt. is into guns, ciggies, paid prescriptions, and some very bad outcomes for the bottom 50%–so there will be blowback for Baldrick, Incel Dave and Winfield.