Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 10:42 am Despite Aotearoa gaining international praise for its COVID-19 response, two independent reports commissioned by Te Pūtea Whakatupu Trust have found that Māori vulnerability and resilience to these large-scale crises remain largely unchanged for the past century. The reports analyse how COVID-19 has impacted Māori from an education and economic perspective, highlighting deepening inequalities that Māori continue to face - some of which have not improved since the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918. The reports have found that it is a combination of these inequalities which have contributed to a fundamental lack of ‘social immunity’, disabling Māori