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Rawiri Waititi on Newshub Nation. Credits: Video - Newshub Nation; Image - Newshub.
Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi thinks Aotearoa could be the best nation in the world - but not necessarily as a democracy.
His comments come after the Government launched consultation with iwi on the controversial He Puapua document - an independent report into how New Zealand could fulfil its obligations to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), which the country signed up to in 2010.
ACT and National have slammed the report, the former calling it a step towards New Zealand becoming an ethno-state and National leader Judith Collins saying it contained a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi , despite her own party being in charge when New Zealand backed UNDRIP.