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When asked if comments such as “climate hysteria” would lead people to believe he is a climate change denialist, Jones said he ‘wasn’t going to be cancelled’, with Davidson interjecting that she thinks he is one.
“This is the new religion, if you have a different approach to how New Zealand should manage the cost of coping with volatile weather and changing climate, you’re cancelled,” he said.
“A million years will pass before any politician will cancel Matua Shane Jones,” Jones added, to a chorus of laughter from the audience.
When asked if they would support Maori Language Week, Jones said we should be speaking it every day, but was over “the vanity signalling stuff.”
Davidson, who was next in line to answer, replied “I’m vain as, yes.”
Talking about co-governance, Jackson said Jones should “hang his head in shame” for not supporting it.
“We just want to work with our pakeha brothers and sisters, Shane should hang his head in shame, because he comes from an area that has supported these partnerships…” he said.
“Kia tupato (be careful), Winston is going to send you back to Hawaiki if you keep talking like this,” Jones replied.
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