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# Discrimination of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/discrimination-of-the-day-6/
- Published: 2021-07-05T03:50:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-05T04:29:38.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, Press Releases, Science, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

**Taxpayers’ Union**

The *Taxpayers’ Union* is responding to reports that the Government has quietly changed the rules so that the [Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF)](https://www.tec.govt.nz/funding/funding-and-performance/funding/fund-finder/performance-based-research-fund/?ref=goodoil.news) will now pay Maori researchers **2.5 times the rate** of non-Maori, while Pasifika academics will be paid **two times** the non-Pasifika rate.

*Union* spokesman **Jordan Williams** said:

> “The Government needs to immediately pull back from its latest move to politicise science research on racial grounds.”  
>  
> “The PBRF, in the Government’s own words, was established to encourage and reward excellent research based on performance. It was never meant to be dependent on the ancestry of academics.”  
>  
> “New Zealand has spent years building up a framework where the quality of research can be objectively assessed across disciplines. The *Union* has had issues with the PBRF in the past, but the Fund was heading in the right direction – a focus on the science. **This latest move undoes all that and takes research in a dangerous direction.”**  
>  
> “The $315-million-a-year fund needs to be laser-focused on the performance part of its name, not ethnicity of researchers.”

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**Let’s highlight the racism and discrimination inside New Zealand together because it is NOT OK!**

> There is NOTHING positive about discrimination.

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