This weeks Waatea news column – When is consultation a joke? When Maori are concerned

This weeks Waatea news column –  When is consultation a joke? When Maori are concerned

Speaking with the co-leader of the Maori Party, Marama Fox last week on what the supposed comprehensive consultation with Maori that John Key offered up in defence of criticism that National have rammed through the TPPA with little if any negotiation with Maori looked like in practise, she said,

“What that consultation looks like is someone coming to tell us –this is what we are doing”.