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 hangi. “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. He said it was not the first time Healy had drawn racist caricatures of Māori in an unflattering, racist and ugly way.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 17, 2022 01:07 UTC