Panicked Nats have an ugly agenda in attacking our Independent Māori Statutory Board – Wayne Brown

Opinion byNZ Herald·20 Sep, 2026 05:00 PM4 mins to readWayne Brown has been the Mayor of Auckland since 2022, and was the Mayor of the Far North from 2007-2013.‌Minister for Auckland Simon Watts addresses a conference at the Aotea Centre.We really do have a ridiculous parliamentary system with 51 of our 123 MPs being list MPs. They are solely there because their party put them there and, in almost every case, after their local voters rejected them. These voter rejects make up most of Act, New Zealand First and