The party’s Te Tai Tonga MP, Takuta Ferris, was told to apologise to the House last month for denying he had called other MPs liars (an apology he made, but in te reo), and he was also heard calling submitters from the New Zealand Centre for Political Research “fucking racists!” when he was sitting on the Justice select committee on the Marine and Coastal Area Amendment Bill last October.
He also picked his nose and ostentatiously ate his lunch with his mouth open while half-listening to former TVNZ broadcaster Peter Williams — who spoke in support of David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill last month — in what appeared to be a display of undisguised contempt. His response at the end was to deride Williams’ knowledge and effectively tell him that his opinion wasn’t needed because all the relevant discussions had already been had over many years.
Most famously, in November, three of the party’s MPs left their seats in Parliament —at the instigation of 22-year-old Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke — to perform a haka to express their hostility to Seymour’s bill. Their highly choreographed performance included co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer pointing her fingers at Act’s leader in a manner that was widely interpreted as mimicking a gun.
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