Maori extremists and bleeding-heart liberal non-Maori agreed with her, but the majority of NZers saw it as grandstanding.

Ah, Tariana. A friend of mine has a rather unflattering nickname for her, which I cannot recall, but is a clever pun on her name, and implies that she is not worth listening to. I found his viewpoint interesting bwecause he was one of the generation that were beaten by teachers if caught speaking Te Reo. Despite that, he does not consider himself the victim of an attempted Holocaust.