Geoff Parker: Taxpayer Money Should Never Be Allocated By Race

The eyewatering 2024 - 2025 list of Te Puni Kōkiri investment recipients exposes just how deeply race-based funding has become embedded in New Zealand’s public sector. Tens of millions of taxpayer dollars are being distributed through programmes available only to Māori organisations, Māori trusts, Māori businesses, and Māori landowners.

This is not welfare based on hardship. It is not assistance based on income. It is funding allocated primarily on ancestry.