Point of Order: Govt is safeguarding Treaty grounds (for $3m).....

.....but Hipkins may be embroiled in spat about when he can talk about it

Politicians keen to curry favour with Māori tribal leaders have headed north for Waitangi weekend. More than a few million dollars of public funding are headed north, too.

Not all of this money is being trumpeted on the Beehive website, the Government’s official website.

Mike Butler: Clarity on Maorified protocol

It takes a visiting Danish politician to bring a moment of clarity to the rent-a-powhiri madness that occurs at any official function. Marie Krarup, who was welcomed on to the navy’s Te Taua Moana Marae last month, decried the wero or challenge, objected to being welcomed by a “half-naked” man “shouting and screaming in Maori”, and objected to being forced to touch noses.