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Logan Hagoort
Minister at Covenant Presbyterian Church
Editor of Founded in Grace
Logan Hagoort
Minister at Covenant Presbyterian Church
Editor of Founded in Grace
The law makes it clear: parliament could abolish the Māori seats tomorrow with a simple majority – no referendum needed, no special entrenchment – yet a politically convenient referendum is being offered instead.
Transforming the revenge fantasies of anti-immigrant populists into enforceable public policy will not be easy.
You’re much better off visualising how you’re going to get there. But then that would mean actual work.
Tamatha Paul is responsible for the positions she advocated, the amendments she moved, and the prioritisation she helped secure. That is the level at which accountability properly sits. And insisting on that level of accountability is not racism. It is politics.