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# Labour Deserves to LOSE Every Maori Seat This Year
- URL: https://goodoil.news/labour-deserves-to-lose-every-maori-seat-this-year/
- Published: 2020-02-05T21:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-19T17:07:12.000Z
- Author: Press Releases
- Tags: Education, Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

Press Release: **ACT Party**

“After its dismal performance on Maori issues in government, Labour deserves to lose every single Maori electorate this year”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour.

“Labour’s Maori caucus of 13 is a record and the Ministry is almost a third Maori. **What have they achieved?**

“ACT’s [charter schools were closed ](https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/09/labours-fails-series-education/?ref=goodoil.news)to appease the teachers’ unions without any regard for the Maori students who had been so badly failed by the state education system.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/screen-shot-2018-02-10-at-11.10.35-am-630x584.png)

The BFD. Photoshopped image credit Luke

“**Whanau Ora** is a mess and Labour is now attempting to undermine the programme by giving more control to Wellington bureaucrats. **Oranga Tamariki** is accused of abusing its power and is being lambasted by senior Maori figures. **Kohanga Reo** languishes, with enrolments declining every year.

“There are more Maori dependent on welfare than when this Government took office. Child poverty statistics aren’t far behind.

“ACT did more for Maori through charter schools than 13 Labour MPs have managed to achieve in more than two years in government. Charter schools changed the lives of Maori students who had been completely failed by state schools.

“Labour ended what has been described as the most innovative social public policy in the past twenty years.

“If there was any justice in the world, Labour would lose every Maori electorate in 2020.”