Please explain what provisions have been put in place and how the Maori elites have prevented those provisions from filtering down to those that need it.
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You could start with Ngapuhi. That's a biggie. It's not the pie that has been at issue, it's the divvying up amongst competing internal interests. Treaty settlements Minister Finlayson wasn't shy on calling them out. Andrew Little got nowhere either (perhaps to be expected in that case).
E.g., Shall we see how successful the Maori Health Authority was?
No budget planning and breached the State Owned Entities Act by not having a financial statement yet employed over 400 FTE's! They had zero measurements and zero KPI's. There was no plan for activities, time frames and resources accountabilities and performance. There was no overarching plan yet was a half billion dollar enterprise and multiple ten's millions set aside for the equivalent full time employees. These so called employees were being pulled out of the Ministry of Health and into Maori Health Authority because they were Maori and not based on merit, i.e. race based employment policies. These employees were not front line staff but were all "administrative". The board interfered with operational activities. The upshot is they employed redundant administrative staff based on race without merit that performed zero positive outcomes for Maori with zero accountability and performance outcomes using $500m of tax payer funding.
If this isn't race based troughing by Maori elites I don't know what is. Textbook gravy train
Edit: double post
We could indeed start with Ngapuhi if we were discussing settlements under TOW, but that has nothing to do with a discussion of how "Maori Elites" are responsible for preventing some (unspecified) provisions that have been put in place from filtereing down to those in need.
So a program involving the complete reorganisation of a huge proportion of Govt expenditure and service delivery is set up by a centre left govt, but has not been more than partially implemented when the govt changes and a move to the right scraps the changes. It is a matter of argument whether the shambles we are currently facing is because it was a bad idea in the first place, whether it was very badly impemented, whether yet another reorganisation was a bridge too far, or whether it would have come right if the govt hadn't changed. We can agree that the result is a shambles.
But I can't see how you can argue that the shambles is the fault of a "Maori elite".
Winners from the budget will definitely include landlords while everyone else has cuts.
Having a protest won't stop their after-budget party. But a blackout might.
At a minimum it would make a difference as to whether the champagne is served chilled, or at room temperature.
Not in my house, I have a wood fire that cranks up a good amount of heat so bring it on Panda.
It would also show the ineffectiveness of the ridiculous Labour policy of no exploration for Oil and Gas, and also highlight how renewables, or should I say unreliables, are inept.