Ngāti Toa has just launched a new Whānau Ora commissioning agency to funnel “health and wellbeing” funding to Māori and Pasifika only. Not the poor. Not the vulnerable. Not the struggling. Just Māori and PI. If you don’t tick the right ancestry box, you can get stuffed.
This is apartheid. Full stop. Race-based public funding, race-based agencies, and race-based eligibility. It doesn’t matter how it’s packaged. It doesn’t matter how many te reo words they throw over it. If this was happening in reverse, if there was a system "for Pākehā only", people would be marching in the streets.
The state is pouring millions into building a parallel system where access to basic services is determined not by need, but by race. This isn’t "culturally responsive care". This is institutionalised racism rubber-stamped by the government. Whānau Ora is no longer about helping families. It’s a political tool to carve out power and privilege for iwi elites while the rest of the country drowns in a broken, underfunded health system.
The worst part? You’re still paying for it. Every taxpayer in this country is helping fund a race-exclusive model that their children may never be allowed to use.
This is not "equity". It’s apartheid dressed in an expensive korowai, which was probably made in India in the first place. This is a segregated system designed not to help the most vulnerable, but to divide us further under the sick logic that some lives matter more than others because of who their ‘whakapapa’.
Minister Tama Potaka seems proud of this direction. He wants more race-based commissioning agencies. More separate pipelines. More apartheid. And not a single mainstream journalist is asking why we’re building two healthcare systems in one country. You're in luck. I’m not, and never will be, another puppet working for the mainstream media.
The people defending this mess will tell you Māori need different solutions. That white people can’t understand. That colonisation is why Māori suffer today. That’s all very convenient, but it’s not good enough. We’re not in 1840. We’re in a country where poor Kiwis of every colour are getting screwed by the same broken systems. The idea that only Māori deserve a special lane is not only racist, it’s bloody repulsive.
Every child in this country should be equal in the eyes of the state. Every sick person should be treated based on urgency and need, not whakapapa. But Whānau Ora has thrown that out the window. Now it’s bloodlines first, healthcare second.
While all this money is being handed out to race-based agencies and iwi bureaucracies, Māori children are still being murdered, neglected, and abused in their own homes. That’s the brutal truth none of the iwi wants to talk about. I hardly believe this funding pipeline will reach the kids who actually need saving. Where is Tama Potaka when it comes to that? When is he going to front up and talk about the Māori children being buried instead of being helped?
I guess it’s easier to launch yet another glossy agency than to deal with the uncomfortable reality that the real crisis is happening behind closed doors, and all the Whānau Ora branding in the world won’t stop it.
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
The state is pouring millions into building a parallel system where access to basic services is determined not by need, but by race. This isn’t "culturally responsive care". This is institutionalised racism rubber-stamped by the government. Whānau Ora is no longer about helping families. It’s a political tool to carve out power and privilege for iwi elites while the rest of the country drowns in a broken, underfunded health system.
The worst part? You’re still paying for it. Every taxpayer in this country is helping fund a race-exclusive model that their children may never be allowed to use.
This is not "equity". It’s apartheid dressed in an expensive korowai, which was probably made in India in the first place. This is a segregated system designed not to help the most vulnerable, but to divide us further under the sick logic that some lives matter more than others because of who their ‘whakapapa’.
Minister Tama Potaka seems proud of this direction. He wants more race-based commissioning agencies. More separate pipelines. More apartheid. And not a single mainstream journalist is asking why we’re building two healthcare systems in one country. You're in luck. I’m not, and never will be, another puppet working for the mainstream media.
The people defending this mess will tell you Māori need different solutions. That white people can’t understand. That colonisation is why Māori suffer today. That’s all very convenient, but it’s not good enough. We’re not in 1840. We’re in a country where poor Kiwis of every colour are getting screwed by the same broken systems. The idea that only Māori deserve a special lane is not only racist, it’s bloody repulsive.
Every child in this country should be equal in the eyes of the state. Every sick person should be treated based on urgency and need, not whakapapa. But Whānau Ora has thrown that out the window. Now it’s bloodlines first, healthcare second.
While all this money is being handed out to race-based agencies and iwi bureaucracies, Māori children are still being murdered, neglected, and abused in their own homes. That’s the brutal truth none of the iwi wants to talk about. I hardly believe this funding pipeline will reach the kids who actually need saving. Where is Tama Potaka when it comes to that? When is he going to front up and talk about the Māori children being buried instead of being helped?
I guess it’s easier to launch yet another glossy agency than to deal with the uncomfortable reality that the real crisis is happening behind closed doors, and all the Whānau Ora branding in the world won’t stop it.
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
6 comments:
When will Whanau Ora get to building the cook straight tunnel? Will it be known as our Chur-unnel?
Incredibly, hardly a hint of the above fact and reasoning appears in the msm. Turia used her political tuition under Clark, her mastery of English, and benign motherly image to swing the Whanau Ora fraud.
The Luxon/Potaka plan includes NEVER allowing a referendum on democracy or an ethno-state. Democracy would win - for now.
But their attitude could cost Luxon and National the 2026 election. ACT is the only way to support democracy - whether voters like Seymour or not.
Other than a few Government Ministers, this Government is a sham. They are worse than the Labour lot because at least with Labour you knew what you would get. Socialist racist incompetence. Voters sent a clear message which has been ignored. Unfortunately many voters will stay at home and not vote next year
I would love to think that, on the whole, the Nats are genuinely good chaps just trying to do their best for a struggling nation. Sadly, that is now impossible to sustain. The Nats are just a more up-market, more cunning version of the Labour ideologues, driving the nation towards the precipice at a slightly slower pace. We cannot vote our way out of this. ACT and NZfirst are just the conductors on the bus. What to do? Complain loudly and interminably, threaten their gravy train, and get secondary passports for your grandkids.
I've been looking at the last 5 polls - all post-budget - & doing some arithmetic. Since the election, the combined share of the total coalition vote for Act & NZ First has gone from 37.4% to 50.2% - almost entirely because of National's fall in the polls. It looks like the voters are trying to tell them something.
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