Poll: Do you support Matariki becoming a public holiday?

Labour is promising to make Matariki New Zealand’s twelfth public holiday. It would be the first new public holiday since the Third Labour Government made Waitangi Day a public holiday in 1973, although then Prime Minister Norman Kirk called it “New Zealand Day”.

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Do you support Matariki becoming a public holiday?

65.2% Yes

65.2% Complete
34.8% No

34.8% Complete

437 votes

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