Bob Edlin: Māori Party on the warpath against landlords and seabed miners

Let’s see if mystical creatures come to their aid

The Māori Party has been busy issuing a mix of warnings and threats as its expresses its opposition to interest deductibility for landlords and the plans of seabed miners.

It remains to be seen whether they follow the example of indigenous litigants in Australia, whose scuttling of an offshore mining venture was aided and abetted by mythical whales.