As embattled NZ First Minister Casey Costello faces increasing scrutiny over her ties to the tobacco industry via her association with the Atlas Network and tobacco industry-funded Taxpayers’ Union prior to becoming an MP, we can share a video clip of her interview last year with the Australian Institute of Public Affairs (another Atlas Network think tank that successfully campaigned against the recent Voice to Parliament referendum).
Appearing as the co-founder of the far-right lobby group Hobson’s Pledge, she shares her “insights into New Zealand’s experience with race-based co-governance and the failed Māori Voice to Parliament, the Waitangi Tribunal” to lend her voice to the No campaign.