By AAP on J-Wire…
New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has set off a frenzy for likening the previous government’s power-sharing policies with Maori to Nazi ideology.
Mr Peters made the startling comparison on Sunday during his State of the Nation speech, a campaign event for his populist New Zealand First party.
As has long been his practice, Mr Peters—first elected in 1973—railed against political correctness, the media, and immigration levels in a wide-ranging hour-long speech in Palmerston North.
A recent string to his bow has been sharp criticism of the Labour government between 2020 and 2023 under Jacinda Ardern and Chris Hipkins.
Labour’s “co-governance” practice, in which Maori tribes were invited to share power with government authorities in areas where they had a Treaty of Waitangi-mandated interest, was “race-based theory”, according to Mr Peters.
Read the full article on J-Wire here.
Read The Post story on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s response to Peters’ comments here.
