Tamaki Makaurau MP Peeni Henare says Maori know well the disastrous consequences likely from Australia’s new policy of cutting support from remote Aboriginal communities.
Tony Abbott’s Government has decided the states rather than the federal government should have responsibility for providing essential services to the communities, and Western Australia is already working on a list of communities it wants to close.
Mr Henare says it will be a human disaster.
" We know that this kind of planning and this kind of thinking by the Australian administration is not the way and its not the go. We know what happens when you take your people away from their land and alienate them from all of their culture and what they know. And they get lost in the large masses of Sydney and the major centres of Australia
Peeni Henare says Maori MPs want to speak out, even if the Government may want to stay quiet.
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