Mike's Minute: Why is National not releasing reports on race-based issues?

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1:00No, it hasn't. Why not? Could it be the net's art all that gripped by race-based issues and don't want to rock the boat before polling day? Now the Med School program is a scam, of course. It's defended by the universities because they want to close that gap in terms of race. The representation of medical studies. Now in simple terms, if you're a Maori or Pacific Islander, your entry to Med School is easier than if you are not. That is indisputably discrimination. What makes it worse is access to Med School for non-Marion Pacific Islanders is, of course, extraordinarily high. You need to score something in the very, very high 90s to even get close. Now there's been much debate over the years as to whether that actually produces great doctors or not, and as it turns out Auckland as a result take a slightly different approach to a targo over admissions. But be that as it may, the truth remains, race gives you an easier pathway. The defence also suggests that once in you still have to achieve no matter who you are, and that they also run a rural program that favour students from regional backgrounds.

2:00Now, my argument is race and geography should play no role. What I want in a doctor is competence, of course. Competence and professionalism. Do they know what they are doing? My GPs over the years have been women, Asian, Indian, male, British, Irish, older, younger, none of that mattered. Some were quite obviously good, some were not. The medical acumen was and is what I'm interested in. I assume it's even more relevant by the time you're on a surgery table about to get cut open. It'll be interesting to see what the report actually says if we ever see it. I mean, I find it hard to believe the conclusion isn't inevitable. I.E. race is discrimination, and this government promised that sort of thing would stop. So where's the report? And why isn't it public? The Mike Harsking Breakfast, 6-9 weekdays on NewsTalk's IP.