New Zealand First minister Shane Jones says future government funding for the Waitangi National Trust shouldn’t be given unless they “buck their ideas up” after what he described as a “circus” pōwhiri for Parliament.
National minister Paul Goldsmith says he doesn’t support the idea of restricting funding based on such a premise, while Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson described it as an “abuse of power” but didn’t call for Jones’ sacking.
Jones, the Minister for Regional Development and a known advocate for Northland, made the comments to journalists after he and other Parliamentarians were welcomed on to the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi – the group including Act leader David Seymour, who had his microphone taken from him twice by one Northland Māori leader during his speech.
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