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Tim Dower: Te Pati Māori are shooting themselves in the foot
So, a Day of Action called by Te Pati Māori. Organisers promise they'll target busy roads and even try to jam the motorways.
They're talking about gridlock on roads into central Auckland, and gleefully suggesting this will cause millions in lost productivity.
Wow. What a useful and worthwhile objective that is.
Now, this is supposedly about an assault by the new Government on tangata whenua and the Treaty.
That assault as they see it comes in the form of dialling back the extensions to smokefree laws, scrapping the Māori Health Authority, and repealing Three Waters.
It's probably worth…
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