Seymour on Māori funding: Need over race in Government policy shift

Seymour on Māori funding: Need over race in Government policy shift

Audrey Young

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Senior Political Correspondent·NZ Herald·

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Audrey Young

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Audrey Young, Senior Political Correspondent at the New Zealand Herald based at Parliament, specialises in writing about politics and power.

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THE FACTS

  • The Government issued new directives on targeted funding last year.
  • The focus was to be on need, not race.
  • Labour says the two are very often the same thing.

David Seymour was very grumpy on Budget day, as is obvious from that much-repeated video clip in which he says, “thank-you very much for your questions, including the racist ones.”

The Act leader had been talking to reporters after the Budget and had objected

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