Former Auckland mayor John Banks. Photo / Brett PhibbsOriginally published by The SpinoffVodafone, Kiwibank and Spark have suspended advertising on Mediaworks' Magic Talk radio station as talkback host John Banks is taken off air. The Black Caps have expressed their "disgust" over former Auckland mayor John Banks endorsing the views of a caller who described Māori as a "stone-age people with a stone-age culture". When Banks next spoke, he said "your children need to get used to their stone-age culture, because if their stone-age culture doesn't change, these people will come through your bathroom window". "At the end of the day, Māori culture was rich and strong before anyone else came along," said Tukaki.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 27, 2021 04:09 UTC