Kate Hawkesby: How much faith do you have that Kiwis can behave themselves respectfully in public?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Mar 26, 2023 · 3m

The Posie Parker kerfuffle at the weekend in Auckland, I see the whole thing as so unnecessary. Her coming here, the publicity and noise around her coming here, the reaction when she got here, the vitriol and protests —from both sides— when she tried to speak, the fallout after it.

How on earth did we end up with this much hubbub over a virtual nobody? How have we ended up with JK Rowling involved, MP’s involved, everyone seemingly imploding on each other. All over someone who should never have been given this much oxygen in the first place.

Like I said last week, how many of us had even…