HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION | A FAIR GO FOR A L L ? In order to address this imbalance, the tribunal The tribunal’s alternative pathway – one which addresses recommends the development of genuine partnership structural discrimination and inequalities for Mäori – leads bodies at the governance level and the reform of law, to a different future: policies or practices relating to (among others) health, education, resource management, conservation, the Mäori language, arts and culture, heritage, and Mäori involvement in the development of New Zealand’s positions on indigenous rights. This includes recognition of and support for traditional Mäori approaches in each of these areas. Specific tribunal recommendations related to health and education include: • establishing a Crown–Mäori partnership entity in the It provides Mäori with a positive platform from which they can address social issues and contribute to national prosperity; it moves the Crown/Mäori relationship from one based on grievance and negativity to one based on mutual advantage; and it provides the basis for a future which all New Zealanders can look forward with optimism.56 Taking the tribunal’s detailed Treaty analysis more widely, drawing on diverse cultural values and practices to inform education sector. The tribunal suggests that Mäori more responsive social services that cater to the needs representatives be chosen via an electoral college to sit of different communities is a central part of addressing on it structural discrimination. • developing some specific indicators around mätauranga Mäori (Mäori knowledge) in order to properly gauge its Mäori-focused activities • recognising that rongoä Mäori has significant potential as a weapon in the fight to improve Mäori health. This will require the Crown to see the philosophical importance of holism in Mäori health, and to be willing to draw on both of this country’s two founding systems of knowledge • incentivising the health system to expand rongoä services, for example, by requiring every primary health care organisation servicing a significant Mäori population to include a rongoä clinic.55 In the tribunal’s view, not to give serious consideration to its recommendations and work towards “perfecting the partnership” could lead to: the growth of an ever-larger cohort of poor and unproductive working-age Mäori, who are perceived, and know they are perceived, as a problem to be managed with a seemingly endless stream of taxpayerfunded programmes. This is the path of ongoing Mäori anger and non-Mäori resentment. 13