Rawiri Waititi, Māori politician - and the newest member of the New Zealand Parliament.

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image showing Rawiri Waititi, Māori politician - and the newest member of the New Zealand Parliament.

sangriya on October 18th, 2020 at 00:12 UTC »

I like his earrings

Anjuna25 on October 18th, 2020 at 00:19 UTC »

Love NZ, Maori and kiwis in general are cool as hell and real friendly. 5 stars, would return

Ephemeral_Drunk on October 18th, 2020 at 02:30 UTC »

Apart from Rawiri looking daper in this pic, the real story is not a Maori getting into parliament. Maori are very politically engaged, to the point that there are more in parliament proportionally than in the general public. The impressive achievement of Rawiri was to bring the Maori Party back into parliament are the decimation in the election prior, and to do so against a few popular and visible incumbent who's party (Labour) had seen a historic swing that had resulted in seats going their way for the first time in generations. Rawiri must have worked phenomenally well for his result. Great to have the Maori Party back. May they learn their lessons this time round.