he threw a rock and i threw one back.

anyway, its done and dusted. agreed, bad times and the world is certainly a better place in many ways.

i’m sure it would be difficult for a maori gp in a public institution hospital not to be paid the same as a white gp and the same probably holds true for most if not all public/government instituitons i would hope. is government your biggest employer though?

i am pretty certain than historically it would have been the case that brown ab’s received less compensation than white ab’s (in whatever form that compensation may have been given) in the present i have to agree that it probably does not happen but i am not entirely certain and neither you or i have this data at hand to show otherwise.

do the ab’s receive a set contrat length payment type dealt and on top of that match fees for winning or losing?

i thought carter was white but didn’t realise jonah was brown haha just kidding

@stew-687:
well stew, hand on my heart i can tell you that i certainly was not one of the people supposedly calling for a kiwi to coach the boks.

@Hurricane-688:
i am sorry if i offended you hurri and do apologise for doing so. no malice intended at all. it is a touchy subject and will stop.

if it makes any difference i’ll say this is a phenomena the world over and not anything particular to nz alone. also, in my defense i will say that the point was in response to nzchina baiting/goading me about sa historically denying ‘brown brother’ ab’s form playing in sa as the reason for the boks dominating nz.

dan carter again being an exceptional player in a public relations type position would eran a good salary, but again when averaged out i would hazard it is still less than white players have received. besides, carter hardly qualifies as brown.

my point was that considering the facts of race based income inequality in nz, which persists to the present, i would expect this to be reflected within nz rugby and quite probably all the way up to the ab’s.

and this point was only made in response to china taking digs at sa and its refusing to allow ‘brown brothers’ (as he says) to play in sa. he uses this and biased refs as the blame for the boks dominance of the ab’s.

it was a road he went down and i too do like go a ride every so often (we’re both chops).

@Hurricane-680:
you think whatever you like about it hurri,
its still true. not looking for a fight about it, but it is.

race based income inequality is a fact of life in nz as much as it is in many other parts of the world.