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When is being Māori not enough? Why Māori politics are always personal

  • Written by Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll, Senior Lecturer Above the Bar, University of Canterbury
When is being Māori not enough? Why Māori politics are always personalMP Karen Chhour, criticised for seeing things through a 'vanilla lens'.Getty Images

The truism that the personal is political and the political personal is very much the case with Māori (identity) politics. We’ve recently seen several incidents in which Māori government ministers have criticised other Māori MPs or public...

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