Seymour To Re-Write All Black Haka

ACT party leader David Seymour has volunteered to rewrite the words of the All Black haka following the team’s test match against Italy, during which haka leader TJ Perenara expressed support for the Treaty of Waitangi.

‘The haka. We all love it. We all respect it. And I’m just saying maybe it’s time for an open debate about what the words of the haka really mean and whether they are still relevant in 2024’, Mr Seymour said.

Mr Seymour said many New Zealanders do not understand the meaning of the haka – ‘apart from Māori of course, they’ve got the first-mover advantage there, along with many other special privileges’ - which was why he was offering to take charge of changing the words.

‘The sort of hard-working Kiwis I speak to say ‘It’s some kind of war-dance, isn’t it?’ Well, that’s hardly the sort of vibrant dynamic twenty-first-century vibe you want.’

Mr Seymour says he has some ideas to ‘get the ball rolling, or rucking, or whatever it does in rugby’.