Call for Action on Creating More Health Roles for Maori

Call for action on creating more health roles for Maori

Donna Matahaere-Atariki. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY Calls for the government to create more roles for Maori in health in the Southern region will mean nothing if they are not followed by action, the leader of a major Maori health organisation says.

There is no 'Māori problem', there is a 'white people problem'

Pākehā author Elizabeth Cook has learned that people like her need to see and understand that they are white.    I was born in 1956 in Whangārei into a white, middle-class family. This is just a fact, not a negative. My father milked cows in the morning by hand before he went off to his day job, where he eventually became the circulation manager at the Northern Advocate newspaper. My mother was a stay-at-home mum who dreamed of being an artist. …