The Waitangi Tribunal is meeting this week to hear a long line of complaints from Māori health providers over their inability to do their job when it's come to getting Māori vaccinated. What it achieves I have no idea, given the tribunal don’t make law or can't enforce decisions. The bits we all agree on are a lot of money has been handed out to vaccinate Māori and that the Māori health agencies have broadly argued it’s a Māori problem that needs a Māori solution. And their seeming defiance in the face of at least two court decisions against them would seem to back up the Māori providers in their claims of obfuscation. Given that bit is irrefutable, could it also be argued that it was naive to say that only Māori can vaccinate Māori even if, as it turns out, Māori don’t actually want to get vaccinated.

Source: New Zealand Herald December 09, 2021 21:58 UTC