Tariana Turia – lovely lady, don’t get Alf wrong – seems to have overlooked half of her whakapapa in her valedictory speech this evening.
We heard something about the Whanganui river and the mountains and umbilical chords and all that spiritualĀ stuff that tells us Tariana has a different world view from Alf’s.
We got to hear about other bits of her heritage. But only the Maori bit.