(20-04-2022, 09:30 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Money.BINGO! In a nutshell; they're really not interested unless there's a financial gain of some kind - for them & their mates, obviously.
This is the party that requires a 'return on social investment' - a financial profit over a social wellbeing one. Heaven help them if someone comes up with a valid way of accounting for wellbeing, their poor little heads will explode.
He's apparently also quite keen to get rid of Labour day, which wasn't going down too well with some. Unsurprisingly.
There's no way at all to be able to be 100%certain that these changes will improve Maori health or not. The point though is that what we've been doing up till now just does not work, & it seems unlikely that more of the same will make any difference.
Therefore it's well worth at least trying something different, & if that works & does no harm then we continue with it. It may mean ignoring those of a racist turn but that can be done, & in any case whatever is tried can't possibly please everyone.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)