House of C****
Annabelle Lee-Mather, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire assess the fallout from the proposed suspension of three Te Pāti Māori MPs, before rewinding to last week’s theatrical parliamentary controversy – all of which stemmed from a C-word in a newspaper column.
21 May 2025
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Unprecedented punishments imposed on Te Pāti Māori MPs, and the scramble to avoid banning them from the budget debate, is top of the agenda this week. Annabelle Lee-Mather, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire assess the fallout, before rewinding to last week’s theatrical parliamentary controversy, all of which stemmed from a C-word in a newspaper column, and led Winston Peters, doyen of parliamentary decorum, to deplore a “House of Chaos” (by which he did not mean the popular monthly techno night at Firecrackers nightclub in Ashburton).
All of that, plus: we exclusively read the full text of tomorrow’s 2025 budget.
