This is not welfare based on hardship. It is not assistance based on income. It is funding allocated primarily on ancestry.
The document shows grants for housing, tourism, export businesses, technology ventures, cultural events, governance programmes, business expos, and even overseas brand expansion — all through Māori-targeted funding streams.
Examples include:
New Zealanders were once taught that public money should be distributed according to need and merit. Increasingly, that principle is being replaced by ethnicity-first governance, where ancestry determines eligibility before hardship, contribution, or capability are even considered.
A country cannot remain socially cohesive while the state openly favours one ethnic group over another. Equal citizenship means exactly that: equal treatment under the law, equal access to opportunity, and equal standing as taxpayers.
If a business grant, housing subsidy, or development fund is genuinely worthwhile, it should be open to every New Zealander — not reserved by bloodline.
Geoff Parker is a passionate advocate for equal rights and a colour blind society.
Examples include:
- $440,000 to upgrade a hotel owned by Ngātiwai Holdings Limited.
- $865,000 to explore green hydrogen exports.
- Millions for papakāinga housing developments restricted to Māori land structures.
- $2.46 million connected to Wai 262 mātauranga Māori capacity building.
- Hundreds of thousands for festivals, cultural celebrations, awards events, and Māori business promotion.
New Zealanders were once taught that public money should be distributed according to need and merit. Increasingly, that principle is being replaced by ethnicity-first governance, where ancestry determines eligibility before hardship, contribution, or capability are even considered.
A country cannot remain socially cohesive while the state openly favours one ethnic group over another. Equal citizenship means exactly that: equal treatment under the law, equal access to opportunity, and equal standing as taxpayers.
If a business grant, housing subsidy, or development fund is genuinely worthwhile, it should be open to every New Zealander — not reserved by bloodline.
Geoff Parker is a passionate advocate for equal rights and a colour blind society.
5 comments:
Thank you for making this comment Geoff. It is quite wrong for a number of reasons and remains a puzzle to me for a number of reasons. Fundamentally , of course is the matter of taxation.
Yet just another public entity that should be scrapped saving even more million$
To echo Senator Pauline Hanson's catchphrase in Australia but applied here: Mr Luxon, Please explain!
Luxon said he would stop this.
He hasn't even tried, in fact , it gets worse.
Not even a flimsy excuse.
So , if Maori welfare is separate and Maori development funding is increasing , what exactly are Treaty settlements funds used for by Iwi and Hapu? Is Mr Luxon being held to ransom - such as demands for ancestry-based funding to avoid unrest?
PS
Anyway, clearly unsustainable long term Anyone under 40 will read this and leave NZ.
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