Barrie Davis: Better Together

We, the people of New Zealand, are being forced apart by our own representative Parliament into two groups – part-Maori and non-Maori. Here is my understanding of the situation:

Paul Paynter: The Te Tiriti o Waitangi journey

I didn’t vote for David Seymour.

Jacinda Ardern may be right in that he’s “an arrogant prick”, but at least he has courage. Seymour’s End of Life Choice Act was a remarkable achievement. It’s the sort of issue that upsets a lot of people, me included. To confront difficult issues requires you to put your political capital on the line.

And so it is with any discussion about the Treaty of Waitangi. Seymour has the cojones and Luxon doesn’t. One of the best parts of MMP is it brings us fringe parties with fringe ideas and the courage to air them.