National leader Chris Luxon used his appearance at Rātana to reaffirm his party's stance against co-governance.

During his speech, Luxon said the co-governance debate has been an increasing poor discussion and he blamed the current Government for not being "upfront or transparent" on the subject.

Chris Luxon says that today's Rātana event was an appropriate opportunity to talk about the co-governance debate.

"Frankly it's been an issue that's been in conversation now for a year, I tried to talk about it last April along similar lines. And with the new Prime Minister, as he said, he's looking at it and he's potentially looking at Three Waters and other things. I thought it was entirely appropriate to come out and say where things were."

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