New NZ PM ‘well-received’ by public despite media painting his govt as ‘racist and uncaring’

The Platform Journalist Sean Plunket says New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has been “well-received by the public” despite some in the media painting his government as “racist and uncaring”. Mr Luxon has received criticism about his government’s proposal to dissolve the country’s Maori Health Authority, with critics dubbing the decision to ditch policies seen to favour the country’s indigenous people as anti-Maori. “He’s been well-received by the public and he was voted into office and the strange three-way coalition seems to be working well,” Mr Plunket told Sky News Australia. “There is a major problem with what one might call legacy media in New Zealand, who have given the new administration – Luxon, Winston Peters – no wiggle room, no honeymoon whatsoever. “But a poll just out, a Roy Morgan poll, has the new government in total up five per cent, Labour, the previous government, down nearly six per cent to historically low levels – just 21 per cent support. “While the news media might be painting this government literally as racist and uncaring, the New Zealand public seems to be responding very positively to what has been a very fast start in terms of policy turnarounds and a reset of the liberal mood or progressive mood, of the country to a more conservative and considered one.”