The cunning plan for co-governance – give it a te reo name!

NewstalkZB reports:

Co-governance could be in for a re-branding from the new Prime Minister.

Chris Hipkins met with the Iwi Chair forum this morning at Waitangi, and told reporters there had been a lack of clarity around co-governance.

Hipkins says he likes to think of it as mahitahi: working together.

Newstalk ZB’s Chief Political Reporter Aaron Dahmen told Heather du-Plessis Allan that it could be a way to introduce a new word into the political conversation.

He suspects Hipkins will stick to the idea of co-governance, but won’t call it that. Instead it may be called mahitahi, or “working together”.

This is the sort of article that should be satire, but is sadly true. They really do think Kiwis are that stupid.