Greens co-Leader Marama Davidson has magically reappeared and taken credit for the aforementioned signing move. Her next step? Compulsory Māori language in schools. She is backed by Nanaia Mahuta who says it's a case of when, not if.

Learning in schools must be about more than promoting things, Maori is not an international language it is not a language of trade or business so why should it be forced on all?

Advocacy, the promotion of an idea is one thing, using your office to impose it is something else.