February 26, 2020
Jackson pushes back on done nothing slur
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The head of Labour’s Māori seat campaign isn’t taking shots from the Māori Party lying down.
Willie Jackson says despite the message of gloom coming from the Māori Party and National, more Māori are employed than ever, with Māori unemployment down to about 8 percent.
Labour has appointed Māori judges and has put Māori on district health boards, and its Māori MPs are in the thick of cleaning up problems created by the previous coalition such as the Ihumātao occupation.
"They supported the National Party in terms of a special housing area. We are in the Ihumātao situation directly because of the actions of the Maori Party and the National Party but the Māori Party don't like mentioning that. They just go along to the protests and say 'let's return Ihumātao.' We're giving it a good shot in terms of trying to get a resolution for everyone," Mr Jackson says.
He says it will take more than three years to fix the damage done by nine years of minimal investment by National in the country’s social and physical infrastructure.
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