The morning after the voting down of the Treaty Principles Bill, you were meant to open the New Zealand Herald and see a giant full page ad calling out Christopher Luxon and the National Party for their failure to support democracy, equality, and a New Zealand based on unity – not racial division.

Instead, NZME clearly making up rules on the hoof introduced new creative restrictions at the very last moment and refused to print it unless we complied.

We told them to get stuffed. We are not playing their games.

You can see our ad below – tell us if it is somehow unworthy of publishing.

They were set on finding any excuse not to publish an ad that supported the Treaty Principles Bill.

Their decision to yet again reject one of our ads is appalling. It’s prejudiced, censorious, and it’s wrong.

Not only is National selling New Zealand out and embracing divisive policies, but mainstream media are just as bad.

Hobson’s Pledge is committed to being the voice for New Zealanders who want unity and equality. While politicians and media will do their best to ignore you, we are going to ensure your voice is seen across the country.

We are not taking NZME’s pathetic decision lying down. That is why, we have reworked our newspaper ad and are going to put it out on billboards across the country. And you best believe we are going to make it clear that NZME refused to publish it.

But a decent billboard campaign is more expensive than the newspaper ad we were going to run. We hadn't accounted for this in our budget for the Treaty Principles Bill campaign. Will you chip in to make up the difference?

We have booked as many billboard sites as our budget allows, but depending on the level of support we get this for, we will ask LUMO to expand the campaign more widely. Can you contribute so we can plaster the country with the face NZME didn't want to publish? 

Let's hold Christopher Luxon, National, and legacy media to account. They don't want the message that New Zealanders are disappointed and angry that they voted down the Treaty Principles Bill to be spread. 

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