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Luxon on surgery waitlists, wife's Tesla
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English - June 20, 2023 19:47 - 9 minutes - 8.9 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The Green Party has accused the opposition of whipping up racism over a tool which prioritises surgery waitlists, partly based on ethnicity.
The tool looks at clinical priority, time on the wait list, rural isolation, deprivation, and ethnicity - priorising Māori and Pasifika over other ethnicities.
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson was ejected from the house when she refused to apologise after saying questions being asked were intended to raise racist opinions.
National's health spokesperson, Dr Shane Reti, a Māori man, had been questioning the Health Minister, as had several Māori members of the ACT Party.
National Party leader Christopher Luxon spoke to Corin Dann.