‘The unelected Maori Statutory Board will cost Auckland ratepayers $3.4 million a year to run after its budget was rushed through under urgency yesterday.
Councillors were given virtually no time to consider the budget, which has blown out from a $400,000 estimate – by the agency that set up the Super City – to a multi-million-dollar cost.
……..The Auckland Council also operates a Maori strategy and relations department with 19 staff.
IT ALL ADDS UP
* Pay and expenses for nine board members: $494,500
* Pay and expenses for non-board members sitting on council committees: $50,500
* Staff costs: $946,500
* Legal, communication, professional advice, tikanga: $470,000
* Engaging and reporting to Maori community: $280,000
* Audit of council performance relative to Treaty of Waitangi: $175,000
* Research on wellbeing of Maori: $650,000
* Council support services: $369,000
* Total: $3,435,500 ‘ SOURCE
This bullshit will continue for as long as Kiwis lack the courage to stand up and speak out about it. For as long as they tolerate things such as being forced to attend workplace “cultural sensitivity” courses and speak only furtively about their anger and humiliation in the face of institutionalised racism. Speaking up is the kiss of death career-wise because not enough people have the courage and self-respect to do so. From personal experience working in an environment where this kind of PC intimidation was rife I know how much anger there is out there–and how few people express it openly. The problem is us–this crap can only survive and grow with our complicit, spineless silence.
