A cartoon published in a West Coast newspaper has been labelled “racist and abhorrent”. The cartoon by Hokitika cartoonist David Thomas Healy was published in the Greymouth Star on Thursday. In 2020, the Greymouth Star published another Healy’s View cartoon depicting Māori as cannibals about to eat then Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage in a hāngī. “I am appalled the Greymouth Star has published such racist and abhorrent cartoons which should never have been drawn, let alone published,” she said. She called the Three Waters cartoon disgraceful, but also factually incorrect.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 17, 2022 02:36 UTC