ACT's David Seymour, with MPs Karen Chhour and Nicole McKee, releases the 'Democracy or co-governance' policy paper. Iain McGregor/Waikato Times Winston Peters, circa 2005, giving a speech to an appreciative, mostly white, mostly elderly audience. Stuff Winston Peters in 2022, still leveraging cultural discomfort after all these years. Stuff writer Andrea Vance recently observed that co-governance may earn the right to be 2023’s word of the year. Neither Winston Peters nor David Seymour are going to help, but surviving the severe test coming up in 2023 would mature us as a multicultural society in a bicultural nation.
