1Budget 2007 - what does it mean to the average Maori trying to make ends meet? A case study of a mother of three who has just bought a home in Auckland. She says the Budget has abandoned Maori whanau.
2Government press releases this week resembled a menu for Maori to feast on - $530,000 for the Treaty 2U Exhibition, $13.9 m for Kohanga Reo, $102m for Kura and Wharekura and $23.1 m for Maori Television Service. All up, around $170 million ear-marked for Maori. Not that the Maori Party were impressed, dismissing it as an "offering of peanuts" to fight poverty. Were they thinking of all those newly-employed Maori - the same ones who like every other worker, continue to scrounge for tax-cut crumbs under the government's table?