Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 26, 2022 3:22:39 GMT 12
NEW ACT PARTY POLICY BRANDED 'DIVISIVE' AND 'BIGOTED' BY MĀORI PARTY
A new ACT Party policy calling for “a referendum on co-governance” has been branded “divisive”, “bigoted” and “appealing to racists” by the Māori Party.
ACT leader David Seymour has proposed that the next Government should pass legislation “defining the Principles of the Treaty [of Waitangi]” and then hold a referendum on whether it should become law.
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said the policy proposal was deliberately divisive and based on a “really bigoted opinion of tangata whenua”.
“He is trying to appeal to racists,’’ she said......
www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300549600/new-act-party-policy-branded-divisive-and-bigoted-by-mori-party
A new ACT Party policy calling for “a referendum on co-governance” has been branded “divisive”, “bigoted” and “appealing to racists” by the Māori Party.
ACT leader David Seymour has proposed that the next Government should pass legislation “defining the Principles of the Treaty [of Waitangi]” and then hold a referendum on whether it should become law.
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said the policy proposal was deliberately divisive and based on a “really bigoted opinion of tangata whenua”.
“He is trying to appeal to racists,’’ she said......
www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300549600/new-act-party-policy-branded-divisive-and-bigoted-by-mori-party