Stop Co-Governance director Julian Batchelor. The group’s meeting in St Kilda, Dunedin, on Saturday, was cut short after venue providers Scouts NZ intervened, saying they had been misled about the nature of the meeting. Before last night’s meeting, Mr Barrett said such cancellations were misguided, and were hampering the group’s right to free speech. Stop Co-Governance has courted controversy due to what some claim are "racist" views that "frame Māori culture as an enemy of the public". Group founder and director Julian Batchelor claims on his website that co-governance is "undemocratic" and promotes "apartheid and racism".
