Separatism v ethnicity

P Dey (The Weekend Sun, March 2) is quite right when he claims ‘Maori would not want to run their own affairs with their own funding'. Maori want to run their own affairs with non-Maori funding! Example: co-ownership of Mount Maunganui with Maori making decisions and ratepayers paying.

The current government is made up of many list MPs who nobody voted for ­– they mostly have no experience, what a shambles! Labour, NZ First and National party leaders and deputy leaders – five of the top seven are Maori, with Greens to still decide if their prospective co-leader is also Maori. So why do we also need Maori wards since Maori can get to the top under their own steam? Maori simply only need to stand for a position and it's theirs, thanks to Winston Peters, who incidentally claimed prior to the election that he was doing away with race-based politics. Yeah right.

J Hill, Tauranga.

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