This government does not like Maori. They demonstrate this at every turn. From trying to stop the normalisation of the use of the language (not to be used in signage or discourse), to the TPB (and trivialising the strong and loud feeling shown by the hikoi and nationwide submissions against it), to the RSB (removing reference to the Treaty of Waitangi and promoting the paramountcy of property rights over the social and common good), raising age of Maori eligibility for colonoscopies in spite of the prevalence of bowel cancer in that group at an earlier age, and so much more. And now this. Enforcement by this Coalition of the most harsh punishment ever recorded by the Privileges Committee, out of all proportion to the misdemeanour which incurred it . This government is despicable. We must vote them out.
This government does not like Maori. They demonstrate this at every turn. From trying to stop the normalisation of the use of the language (not to be used in signage or discourse), to the TPB (and trivialising the strong and loud feeling shown by the hikoi and nationwide submissions against it), to the RSB (removing reference to the Treaty of Waitangi and promoting the paramountcy of property rights over the social and common good), raising age of Maori eligibility for colonoscopies in spite of the prevalence of bowel cancer in that group at an earlier age, and so much more. And now this. Enforcement by this Coalition of the most harsh punishment ever recorded by the Privileges Committee, out of all proportion to the misdemeanour which incurred it . This government is despicable. We must vote them out.