the foreshore issue by legislating to return to the previous status quo ? the settled legal situation before the Court of Appeal decision. That is a position where for the most part the Crown owned the foreshore. ? A National Government will continue to fund Te Kohanga Reo, Kaupapa Maori, Wananga and Maori primary health providers ? not because we have been conned into believing that that is somehow a special right enjoyed by Maori under the Treaty, but rather because National believes that all New Zealanders have a right to choice in education and health. ? We must build a modern, prosperous, democratic nation based on one rule for all. We cannot allow the loose threads of 19th century law and custom to unravel our attempts at nation-building in the 21st century. Cut and pasted from nationals website ( just giving credit so no copyright laws are infringed yadda yadda) It is unacceptable that an elderly woman with heart problems was asked to give up her bed in a public ward at Tauranga Hospital because she was not Maori, says National?s Health spokesperson Dr Lynda Scott. Nurses at the Hospital attempted to move Elva Cooper, 69, after a request from other patients who wanted to be in an all-Maori room. Ms Cooper was left upset and disturbed by two attempts to move her in what she believed was an unacceptable form of racism. ?Ironically, Mrs Cooper is of Maori ancestry but because she does not look Maori she was