Matua Kahurangi: Greens cry foul over parody billboards

The Green Party, architects of the Copyright (Parody and Satire) Amendment Bill, have found themselves in the unusual and frankly ironic position of complaining about being parodied.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has partly upheld eight complaints about six parody billboards lampooning Green MPs Tamatha Paul and Chlöe Swarbrick. The billboards, funded by the Sensible Sentencing Trust, featured slogans such as “Defund the Police” and the more pointed “Woop Woop! Defund da Police”, the latter a cheeky nod to Paul’s on-stage DJ performance earlier this year where she played Sound of da Police by rapper KRS-One.