Julian Batchelor, who campaigns against Māori co-governance, says he ‘can’t control what other people do with what I say’
“For [Indigenous Australians] to say … we want to have special treatment, we want to have special handouts, then that’s apartheid,” he said in response.
“I am linking arms with people all across the globe who are defending democracy, free speech, one person one vote, all votes of equal value. Who are fighting against apartheid and racism.” Batchelor’s rhetoric echoes many tropes also associated with the voice, including that co-governance is the project of “elite Māori”. The claim that the voiceThe term co-governance refers to and the New Zealand government.
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