Equality before the law means everyone has to live by the same legal requirements – NOT that everyone has to be the same. To explain this, any sector of society ( race, religion, sex) can organise their affairs to suit themselves, as long as they stay within the one law that applies equally to everybody else. So a New Zealand woman or man of any descendent lives by the same rules as a Maori woman or man. No entitlement, preference or different rules based on their ancestral descendent.

Welfare or taxpayer-funded subsidies are based on need, not ancestral descendent.