Graeme Spencer: The South Canterbury Museum promotes matariki as a special day.

 Special day - what a joke - it wasn't, still isn't, it was relatively unknown until comrade Jacinda promoted it in an effort to bestow Maori wonderfulness on an unsuspecting public. It didn't bother her that it costs NZ businesses around $450 million per year.

Matariki was never a maori "thing". The so called maori new year is just a woke cultural appropriation of something that never was. Do people not wonder why it's never been celebrated before and all of a sudden it appears on the scene and nobody questions it?

So what are we celebrating here ?