Govt vetos race restrictions on Whanau Ora scheme

01 Mar 2010 04:49p.m.

Dan wrote:

Tariana Turia's $1.6 billion dollars would have meant $400 each from everyone in New Zealand paid to Maori every year. So a family of four non-Maori would pay $1600.00 every single year to fund it. Individual Maori would receive $3,200.00 each per year. (1.6 billion dollars divided by 500,000 Maori head of population.) So a four person Maori family would gain $12,800 per year. Every year. A Maori child born into Whanau Ora will accrue $32,000.00 at the age of ten. A non-Maori child will pay $4.000 of that so it will take take eight non-Maori children to generate this legacy. Whanau Ora is a lie and the reason Tariana Turia has gone quiet is because she doesn't want the public to start asking about the rest of it. The Maoris have come to accept the other races as their ATMs and are only interested in taking as much money as possible from a nation that doesn't owe them anything. Maybe it's time the government ran a review of just how much unfair money is being paid to Maori.

21 Feb 2010 08:30a.m.

Brent wrote:

Anyone Read the Task force web page? Good job John Keys!

17 Feb 2010 09:27a.m.

Vince wrote:

Maori party racism, no surprise there, why out of curiousity why, when we vote do I have to say I'm not Maori, do we answer to a different government? Maori's get a special vote? If someone can't get in the General elections, which include various diffent Asian communities and European communities, should they lead despite not getting a majority vote for their place? We see paper after paper offering preferential treatment to Maori, how many millions have we paid for the Treaty now? Oh and promoting a large Maori logging industry only free for Maori. Hone, his racism, you know how this went, they talked about it, the party responded correctly threatening to boot him from the party, a few weeks later, a slap on the wrist and a racist MP keeps on his way. My family came here on the Randolf (one of the first four ships) I'm a sixth generation of that family, odd that I don't get to be a New Zealander, I can be a New Zealand European, despite having never seen any of europe or ever having left the islands. This is just a continuing racism, that has long been present and needs to change. Are we New Zealanders? Or are the Maori the Maori and we're European? If thats the case the treaty has been wrong and Maori should give back all the technology we brought them and we'll go back and live in other countries and leave you with your grass skirts.