Kate Hawkesby: People are choosing to ignore Waitangi Day because of petty point scoring

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Feb 6, 2023 · 2m

So another Waitangi weekend done and dusted.. and what did we learn?

Well, not much. I think part of the disconnect around it these days is the coverage of it. Why does it always have to get so petty?

What we learned was – who spoke with notes and who didn’t, who spoke te reo and who didn’t, who attended what and who didn’t. How is that taking us anywhere or telling us anything or bringing us closer as a nation?

We are not being well served here when we let the sneerers on the sidelines get news headlines out of their pettiness.

David Seymour went to the trouble of doing his entire speech in…