Kate Hawkesby: Kelvin Davis' 'how Māori are you' routine yesterday was a disturbing trip backwards

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Sep 28, 2022 · 3m

Kelvin Davis' 'how Māori are you' routine in the House yesterday was a disturbing trip backwards for a country now so bogged down in race politics that it's actually a distraction.

And one I think most of us are rightly sick of. There appears to be more race division and race baiting going on inside the Beehive, on our behalf, than there actually is out here in the real world.

The co-governance spewing forth at a rate of knots, the push for more te Reo inside media, on every signpost, every corporate email, every event, every school.

You can argue it's good for us, or it's long overdue or…