Brash fires Maori MP who criticised his speech
Angry Maori leaders attacked the dismissal of feminist trailblazer Georgina te Heuheu - the National Party's only Maori MP and the first Maori woman to obtain a law degree - as an insult to her people.
She was replaced with an MP who does not speak the Maori language, deputy National leader Gerry Brownlee.
Don Brash, who headed the Reserve Bank of New Zealand from 1988-2002 and took the helm of the National Party late last year, said Ms te Heuheu had refused to back a speech last week in which he vowed to end all special funding for the Maori and seize ownership of New Zealand beaches for the Crown to prevent Maori land claims.
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