Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: National needs to stop this ACC business before it loses votes

Now, listen, I hope that this ACC business is a Scott Simpson problem and not a National problem, but I'm starting to get a little worried about it - because this is at least the 3rd case of race-based stuff still happening under National when we thought National was going to put a stop to it.

I mean, with the free GP visits in Hawke's Bay for Māori and Pasifika kids and no one else - at least that stuff could be blamed on rogue public health staff, and it was killed as soon as we discovered it was happening.

And at least with the co-governance stuff that's going on in the Waitakere Ranges - at a stretch, we may believe that the Government didn't know about it. Maybe.

But this ACC stuff, the minister knows about. And even though he was told about it, he's not gonna stop it because as I told you in the Newsroom article, he stands by ACC - and he thinks it's okay.

Now, I reckon this is gonna be just a little disappointing to a whole bunch of voters who put this Government in power to stop this race-based stuff that Willie Jackson and the Labour Party were pushing.

And who would have thought that that directive to the public service that went out last year telling the public servants to stop the race-based stuff was actually going to stop the race-based stuff?

National needs to cut the stuff out. They need to stop this.

They either need to stop it themselves or they need to go along to to Scott Simpson and tell him to stop it, because otherwise, a lot of voters are gonna wise up to exactly what ACT was warning us at the election - which is that National is not actually going to change anything.

National is just Labour in blue clothes. And if you think I'm going too far saying that, just take a look at what is going on. I'll remind you, Nicola Willis has spent more in her last budget than Grant Robertson ever spent. Scott Simpson clearly loves himself a little race-based target.

Now, what did we complain about ad nauseam with Labour? We complained about too much spending, but we've still got that going on. We complained about too much racial division - we've still got that going on. So how is this any different currently?

As I say, National needs to cut this out, or it needs to risk losing voters to its coalition partners, because the coalition partners at this stage are actually taking a tougher line on this stuff.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now listen, I hope that this ACC business is a
Scotsimson problem and not a national problem. But I'm starting
to get a little worried about it because this is
at least the third case of race based stuff still
happening under National when we thought National was going to
put a stop to it. I mean, at least with
the free GP visits in Hawkes Bay for Maori and
Pacifica kids and no one else. At least that stuff
could be blamed on rogue public health stuff and it

(00:20):
was kelled as soon as we discovered it was happening.
And at least with the co governance stuff that's going
on in the way Tuckety rangers at a stretch. We
may believe that the government didn't know about it, maybe,
but this ACC stuff the Minister knows about, and even
though he was told about it, he's not going to
stop it because, as I told you in the newsroom article,
he stands by ACC. He thinks it's okay. Now, I

(00:44):
reckon this is going to be just a little disappointing
to a whole bunch of voters who put this government
in power to stop this race based stuff that Willie
Jackson and the Labor Party were pushing and who would
have thought that that directive to the public service that
went out last year telling the public servants to stop
the race based stuff was actually going to stop the
race base. National needs to cut the stuff out. They
need to stop this. So they either need to stop

(01:04):
it themselves or they need to go along to Scottsimson
and tell him to stop it, because otherwise a lot
of voters are going to wise up to exactly what
Act was warning us at the election, which is a
National is not actually going to change anything. National is
just Labour in blue clothes. And if you think I'm
going too far saying that, just take a look at
what is going on. I will remind you Nikola Willis

(01:25):
has spent more in her last budget than Grant Robertson
ever spent. Scott Simpson clearly loves himself a little race
based target. Now, what did we complain about at nauseum
with Labor We complained about too much spending. We've still
got that going on, too much racial division, still got
that going on. So how is this any different currently?
As I say, National needs to cut this out or

(01:46):
it needs to risk losing voters to its coalition partners,
because the coalition partners at this stage are actually taking
a tougher line on this stuff. For more from Heather
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