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Recent interview with Te Hiku radio https://tehiku.nz/te-hiku-radio/potitanga-2023/40720/maori-development-matt-kingi?fbclid=IwAR0d_VB52OqFJHJxNs_u0DSk0kfFXD3ZMn57VJLvW_SxwXb2P6fYxJmJwcw

Today’s Stuff article is a great example of gutter journalism. Here is the original photo that was cropped and shared by one of the now former candidates (also in this photo), to insinuate something that it’s not. This photo was taken in Feb 2023, after a successful meeting. To twist it into something it’s not, is sinister. It’s sad that we’ve reached a stage in politics where it gets dirty - it’s not about sharing policy or a contest of robust ideas and solutions that help us progress as a country - it’s become about mud-slinging and slander. It’s wrong, and it’s appalling that the people perpetuating this are members of another political party vying for votes. It’s dirty politics at best, and we won’t stoop to this level. DemocracyNZ has not imploded. ACT has recently lost the same number of candidates that we did four months ago, and they have not imploded. It happens in politics. DemocracyNZ has plenty of support on the ground, and this hit piece five days before E Day is a desperate move to discredit us. We must be a threat, or they wouldn’t want to try to take us out! A note worth mentioning here too. If an individual wants to be private, particularly women - it is wrong to breach that right to privacy. Sometimes there are safety reasons, other times there are equally valid reasons. Time changes things and circumstances, and ultimately - in a free and democratic country, an individual’s right to privacy is not unreasonable. It’s time to start being adults in politics - our country has major issues that need to be fixed, and these high school bullying tactics are pathetic.

Over 11,000 New Zealand medical staff were granted a 12a Medical Exemption for #CovidVaccines fyi.org.nz/request/23284/… They were deemed "indispensable" by Ashleigh Bloomfield, and permitted to continue their jobs without taking the injection and were muzzled accordingly.