‘..In a country where 77% of the people are European (perhaps a bit less, as the 2006 Census brackets European with Other, including ‘New Zealander’) and 15% are Maori, the committee is stacked 50-50.
Now that may be even. But it’s hardly fair. The only New Zealand population that remotely resembles is our prison population..’        source and the rest of the sordid details