accountability for the funds needs to happen according to the Maori way
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Claiming it is "the Maori way" is simply a guilt trip to throw people off the scent of corruption.
The encroaching tide of globalization threatens to expunge the last vestiges of the Maori way.
They apparently stopped reading after they read the words "the Maori way".
We have already had a huge number of signals throughout this debate about the Maori way.
Still nothing official from anyone stating that this is not the Maori way.
Perhaps that wasn't his meaning of the "Maori way".
They don't seem to think it's the Maori way.
That is not the kaupapa Maori way.
The critics' argument is that the style of the investigation is not in line with tikanga, loosely translated as the Maori way.
His throw-away line about it being "the Maori way" is a last resort statement he has used to blame all Maori, than to come back with an acceptable reason why he kept the money.