December 20, 2023
Crown admits Māori health vandalism was purely political to win 2023 election
Posted On December 20, 2023
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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.