There is no place for race based health care in this country....

[Praktica]

I don't see why people are whinging about this, apart from ignorance or spite. It has been known for many years that many non european peoples have less resistance to european diseases. One reason is that they are often descended from smaller remote populations, which were too small to support diseases endemic in larger european populations - those of us with european ancestors descend from populations which lived with tuberculosis, measles, malaria, influenza, smallpox, and many other ills. Maori avoided these, by living remote from europeans. When we came among them, we brought our plagues with us, and since they had no exposure to these diseases, they had little innate immunity. By providing support through Maori specific initiatives, we are enabling them to have the same sort of protection from disease that european people enjoy.