"The Libertarianz Party believes a broadcasting service for New Zealanders of Maori descent is long overdue," said Larry
Timberlake, the Party's Spokesman on the Deregulation of Broadcasting. "Ethnic minorities may already tune into
programmes for Samoans, Tongans, Iranians, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, French, Germans and Italians. However
unlike the proposed Maori channel, these services exist either because they are commercially sound or because of support
from the target audiences.
It is profoundly regrettable that this latest attempt to establish Maori broadcasting comes at a cost of millions of
dollars, to be paid by all taxpayers - and regardless of whether they have any desire for such programmes or not. Such a
scheme is designed to engender resentment, not racial harmony. This is an election bribe payment by the Labour-Alliance
Government which patronises Maori and perpetuates the myth that Maori can achieve nothing without the aid of Nanny
State."
"If Labour is that desperate to stay in power, why don't they just hand out hangi pigs to each iwi that turns up at the
polls?," Timberlake asks. "It would be less hypocritical and far better for the average taxpayer, who has to pay for
these bribes."
"It's enough to make you vote Libertarianz!"
ENDS