Mike Hosking: Why do we have race-based flood funds?

Can you tell me how the weather that has affected certain parts of the country has somehow become race-based?

Does the rain fall differently on Māori? Does a flood affect you differently depending on your race?

If your home is yellow-stickered or red-stickered, is that dependant on whether you identify as Māori?

If your apples aren't getting picked, what role has race played in that?

This is the absurdity we deal with, as yet again the Labour Māori caucus strikes with another of their inexplicable hand-outs based purely on race.