By this charter a disgruntled Maori will be able to take TVNZ to court for all manner of things. Another form of political correctness has spread to medical research. The forty million dollar research budget of the Health Research Council has been captured by the Treaty police. It buys a wide range of health research including biomedical, clinical, public health, Maori and Pacific Islands research. Throughout history, the benefits of medicine were supposed to have been universal and have nothing to do with race, colour or creed.
Medical research is supposed to be carried out for the good of ALL humanity.
That noble concept has just been changed this year, courtesy of the Treaty of Waitangi. Attached to this speech is the investment strategy where those engaged in medical research are now told that all research proposals will be assessed on their ability to demonstrate their responsiveness to Maori. It is clear that the approval process will be loaded in favour of applications that meet the approval of Maori. It is wrong that a racially selected part of the population should have a special input into medical research. It is institutionalised social engineering gone mad.