Ōrewa meeting a battleground

A Stop Co-Governance meeting in Ōrewa last Saturday highlighted divisions within the community, sparking an angry protest.

The co-governance that meeting organiser, Julian Batchelor, is opposed to, is sharing power and decision making with Māori in the public sector, as part of the Treaty of Waitangi partnership.

Batchelor told around 150 people, mostly aged 60 plus, that NZ is at war. Among the groups he opposes are the media, “Māori activist journalists, elite Māori or tribal representatives, education activists and woke Christian churches”.

Batchelor said the reason his talks ...

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