Govt considering separate welfare programme for Maori

Jan... another Maori radical with a big mouth. I don't live on Maori land. Try stepping onto my land... I'm sure my dog will tell you otherwise, and he aint a racist Maori. If you want to split hairs, I believe you stole this land from the Mori Ori's. You are a racist and it's people like you who are creating more separatism in this country. I bet you are one of the Maori's screaming poverty and "poor me". Yeah, I would go to another country but unfortunately I rely on welfare as my MAORI husband took off when our son was 6 and hasn't bothered seeing him since (with no financial contribution except his $12 p/wk to IRD). Oh I know, let's make it that the Maori don't have to pay child support either - afterall, they are all living in poverty. I went to WINZ just yesterday about work but apparently they don't have careers advisors, yet I bet you will get what you want (as someone suggested, laptops etc).
Might I even venture to say that you are prob one of those Maori with a stiff arm - and no doubt passing the same attitudes onto your kids. And don't forget your separate justice system Maori is pushing for, that one will be priceless. Only one racist I can see in these comments Jan - must be a Maori aye!!!! You poor helpless, poverty stricken elitist.

Bex your comment is out of control this is Maori land is all they have and who are you to question the matter..
The Maori culture is nothing like the corruption you brought into our country today..Get real Bex..

Racist Racist Racist. This is excluding people, then everyone else misses out

well..i think Waipareira trust from personal experience with them are full of sh*t..i went there for help as a maori and got nothing but promises they would help me with this and that and they did absolutely nothing! no programs, no assistance with work, no assistance with medical issues ..no assistance with nothing..
I'm a maori and i can tell you i am very supportive of maori issues of all sorts as anyone who reads any of my other comments in the Opinion section will tell you.
But i dont support this stinkin trust at all. If the government wants to use this trust to initiate whanau ora then god help all of us maoris, good rort though John Tamihere and all you others working there.Your all a joke!!
The government can use there money to help maori in other ways but not with Waipareira Trust.

No-one seems to have noticed that we already have separate government funded health care (tikanga maori needs assessment, disease prevention, health promotion & medical care)and schooling (pre-school, primary, secondary & tertiary)for Maori (as well as a separate political party based on race); so why, now, waste so much energy criticising the proposed introduction of tikanga Maori in our welfare system??? The issue is much larger than discussed here; and so increadibly well-immersed into our political, economic and social persona that the only way to realistically respond is to break away from the priveledge-based constitution under the British monarch and establish an independent, republic constitution.

Whanau Ora is for evey family in NZ. It is about the holistic aproach for families in need not just the single issue at hand.If all the services eg medical social workers, victim support agencies: did their job effeciently then there would be no need for Whanau Ora and extra funding. For some reason people of NZ will not offer advice/help for families in need. Why? There are agencies that deliver every service for all issues one could ever want in NZ, so why is it whanau/families are not connected with them? In my opinion the social workers need to be trained to adopt the holistic aproach, the whole country will benefit then. High time NDers got off their backsides and put more effort into their work. Then there would be no need for Whanau Ora.

The majority of Maori need to learn to hear one word : NO!
Why should a whole society suffer for the selfish greedy wants of one culture?
The government needs to lead by example and say NO! No more hand outs, no more treaty money, no more short cuts to easy money.
The truth is that if any other culture were disadvantaged years and years back, they would get up and celebrate their freedom and work for a better life and therefore have a better life. Have some MANA!

Absolutely ridiculous. Wait for it to all go on administration and the fat cats on top and a tiny % to those in need. Why do we keep going on about making all NZers separate instead of working together as one country all aiming to help NZ

A dangerous move in a lot of respects and a system that would need close auditing for years to come.
The maori and part maori population would belong to tribes that were paid out huge settlements for a past grievences, therefore with diligent investment these would be able to support and nuture their reciptents ie members of those tribes, wouldn't it not?.
Questions need to be asked why hasn't the money recieved from those settlements reached EVERY tribal member not just those at the top of the food chain,enough is enough bring on accountability for those who are reaping the benefits of those settlements and not dispersing money to those members who are in dire need,after all that is what the settlements were ment to do, wasnt it?

Yeeeeah riiight..basically, the National party gives a chunk of $ to some joke Maori outfit (e.g. a 'Trust'), they will spend a large % of $ on the incompetent administration of the service and a tiny % on actual welfare - sprinkling a few scraps for a few poor Maori people, with no real change for them, and take the rest and invest it for themselves - this is how tribal Capitalist's operate - worse than the State administration of welfare.