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# Divisive Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/divisive-face-of-the-day/
- Published: 2021-07-01T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-02T08:36:41.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Environment, Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

Greens Party co-leader **James Shaw** described the farmer protest group [Groundswell NZ](https://goodoil.news/a-howl-of-a-protest-friday-16-july-2021/) based in Southland as

> “a group of **pakeha** farmers down south’’

He is also claiming that the statements that they have made about the the National Policy Statement for National Biodiversity are

> ” misinformation.”

But he has failed to explain what it is that they got wrong about the policy statement.

> Shaw \[…\] stuck by his comments the group was spreading misinformation.  
>  
> But he has still yet to say in great detail what the misinformation is.

> \[…\] When asked why he **defined the group by race**, Shaw said: ‘’I was on Ngati Hine FM and we were talking about why Maori were concerned about it. A lot of the misinformation doesn’t come from Maori, they are not the origin of it.’’  
>  
> McKenzie said it was obvious Shaw had not visited Southland to talk to the group, which had a membership that included Maori, Pasifika and Indians.  
>  
> \[…\] “Perhaps if they’d come to us \[farmers\] and asked us how we could help fix the problem, we’d be a bit more supportive, instead of them making up unworkable rules.’’  
>  
> Stuff

[Read the article in full here.](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/125478487/minister-shaw-appears-not-to-be-happy-with-southland-farming-activists-groundswell-nz?ref=goodoil.news) Comment on it on *The BFD.*