Ngāti Kahungunu open letter says events amplify ‘hateful rhetoric’
A Stop Co-Governance meeting has been cancelled after the chair of Ngāti Kahungunu sent an open letter urging the Havelock North Function Centre not to host the meeting of the controversial political movement it accuses of amplifying “hateful rhetoric” towards Māori.
The Stop Co-Governance Tour, which has already been subject to protests and controversy at venues in other New Zealand cities, was due to convene at the centre on May 17.
Another Hawke’s Bay meeting is pencilled in for May 15 on the tour’s website, but does not appear to have secured a venue yet.
Ngāti Kahungunu iwi chair Bayden Barber said the Havelock North event would have been a talk that was a “thinly veiled guise for encouraging hateful rhetoric towards Māori”.
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