\u201cApparently co-governance scares people so we might give it a new name.\u201d <\/p>\n
That prompted an online political attack from New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, who deemed co-governance equivalent to \u201cseparatist\u201d and \u201cracist\u201d, echoing criticism Labour faced while in Government. <\/p>\n
Jackson told reporters at Parliament today he accepted the concept wasn\u2019t adequately explained before the last election and acknowledged there were instances where it got \u201cout of kilter\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t have co-partnership or co-governance stuff here, there and everywhere, right?<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got a rubbish contract, you don\u2019t need a co-governance relationship but if it\u2019s M\u0101ori health, it\u2019ll pay to have a co-governance relationship with M\u0101ori, if it was M\u0101ori education, in certain areas, it\u2019s particularly important.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes entities can just get on with picking up the rubbish \u2026 who wants silly co-governance arrangements then?\u201d<\/p>\n
Jackson said co-governance should be explained as it applied to \u201cmajor kaupapa\u201d such as the management of lakes or parks. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe National Party have always supported that, they brought that in, we would continue that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do have to take that time out to explain what it actually means.\u201d<\/p>\n
Challenged on whether his Sunday comment sufficiently explained the concept, Jackson conceded: \u201cYeah, I probably could have done that better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if Labour would publish a comprehensive co-governance plan before the election, Jackson said: \u201cYeah, I would like to do that\u201d.<\/p>\n
Labour leader Chris Hipkins, asked about a potential plan, referred to the party\u2019s impending M\u0101ori development policy and said, \u201cwatch this space\u201d. <\/p>\n
He said the co-governance debate became a \u201cdominant part\u201d of discussions concerning water infrastructure and was a \u201cdistraction\u201d. <\/p>\n
Adam Pearse is the Deputy Political Editor and part of the NZ Herald\u2019s Press Gallery team based at Parliament in Wellington. He has worked for NZME since 2018, reporting for the Northern Advocate in Whang\u0101rei and the Herald in Auckland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cApparently co-governance scares people so we might give it a new name.\u201d That prompted an online political attack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[275377,105309,177293,2837,5903,78,30505,76,6721,685,2720,111,43,139,69,15767,4753,4762,10269,7254,32260,42877,312,68616,61,5977,1533],"class_list":["post-586675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-cogovernance","tag-develops","tag-divisive","tag-during","tag-election","tag-in","tag-instances","tag-issue","tag-labour","tag-last","tag-mori","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oppose","tag-partnership","tag-party","tag-policies","tag-policy","tag-proved","tag-relating","tag-says","tag-silly","tag-to","tag-which","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}