The extremism visible at the parliament protest has been growing in NZ for years – is enough being done?
- Written by Paul Spoonley, Distinguished Professor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Massey University

It has been interesting to watch media and public commentators come to the realisation – sometimes slowly – that the siege of parliament was not simply an anti-vaccine mandate “protest” but something with more sinister elements.
While researchers and journalists have noted the toxicity of some of the politics on...