On every issue important to Māori this government is failing
Only in its absence do I miss the Māori party, which achieved huge amounts despite a system stacked against it
New Zealand is probably the only country in the Anglosphere where the Indigenous people make up a disproportionate share of the parliament. Māori make up only 16% of the country’s population, but make up 23% of our representatives, holding 27 seats in the 120-seat House. Māori lead every single parliamentary party as well, bar Jacinda Ardern’s Labour.
You might struggle to find a country where a minority exerts more governing power, and demographic defiance, than Māori in New Zealand.