If a stalwart advocate of Maori economic and social advancement has been left shaking his head, then the UNDRIP draft plan must be as near as dammit to He Puapua as makes no difference.

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Known principally for his political commentaries in The Dominion Post, The ODT, The Press and the late, lamented Independent, and for "No Left Turn", his 2007 history of the Left/Right struggle in New...