So the Waitangi Tribunal reports that a ban on prisoner voting disproportionally hurts Maori and breaches the Treaty.

Their report implies that Maori prisoners should be treated differently to all of the others despite the current position being equally fair or unfair on all prisoners.

Another reason the Tribunal gave is the likelihood of Maori released from prison not re-enrolling to vote. That implies that prisoners of other races are more likely to register. Why should we molly-coddle Maori ex-prisoners?

Wasting time on such trivia shows that either the Waitangi Tribunal is no longer necessary, or more likely simply over resourced, and we taxpayers are suffering unnecessarily.

This type of report and a vociferous, small number of other people, allegedly representing Maori, encourages a victim mentality which I believe is a significant part of Maoridom's problem.

Yet there are more than enough good living and sensible Maori who are working for their people, and if those had been better listened to over the last few decades Maori would be far more ahead in a social and economic sense than they are now.

Bill Capamagian, Tauranga [abridged for length]