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“Silencing the Kaitiaki: How Simeon Brown’s “Clarification” Dismantles Māori Health Partnership” - 16 December 2025

Newsletter

“Silencing the Kaitiaki: How Simeon Brown’s “Clarification” Dismantles Māori Health Partnership” - 16 December 2025

The taiaha hums with familiar fury. We have seen this pattern before—colonial logic wrapped in bureaucratic language, the systematic dismantling of Māori authority disguised as “streamlining.” But Minister of Health Simeon Brown’s Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Amendment Bill represents something more insidious than mere policy reversal. It is

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Ltn