Why support Māori self-governance?

There is some debate over the general value of iwi-led corporate bodies, but nevertheless that is how most of the reparations have been handled. Kai Tāhu are billionaires. The regions that are predominantly Māori are largely the most economically and socially deprived regions in the country, and a lot of people think that this isn't helped by the colonial settler attitudes of the old money that owns the councils. We have Māori councillors, but the current government is seeking to remove those. - It's worth a go. Everything else has failed. - For the foreigners: in Jacinda's second term as Prime Minister, there was a national debate about proposed 'co-governance' legislation that would give Māori what the coalition of delusion called unequal rights because they had guaranteed board seats on most of the infrastructure boards. Given New Zealand's awful sewerage problem, this was a big issue, and one of the things that intersected with the anti-mandate protests. There was a feeling of Pākehā keenly feeling their lost supremacy, and confronting that reality. I'd been told years ago by prominent historian Jock Phillips that New Zealand would be majority non-Pākehā by the mid-2030's. We were discussing a book he'd written on the 19th century settlers, which is well worth reading.