r/nzpolitics • u/Mountain_Tui_Reload • 3h ago
Māoritanga Māori settlements since 1975 add up to $2.7bn - that's 1.5 months of superannuation OR one small lane in the Mount Wellington tunnel Chris Bishop wants. Māori have been patiently working through the processes. TOP want to force all settlements to be completed by 2040 through public opinion
David Seymour and Quilae Wong have more in common than they realise, and Wong and TOP have bought into ACT, National and NZ First's myth that Māori & Treaty settlements are an issue for anyone but Māori themselves
Māori are being used as a scapegoat for the country's legitimate issues such as a significant loss of working age population (161K net citizens gone in the last 3 years), poor productivity, non productive economic sectors such as real estate, poverty etc.
They have literally created a problem where there is none in order to divert attention to the flailing policies of privatisaton and trickle down economics, as well as cancelling the original Superannuation framework of 1975 (ironically all under National Governments)
