by Ani O’Brien

Maki Sherman is suspended from Parliament for 5 days

The Maiki Sherman saga has now expanded well beyond the original “faggot” incident. The TVNZ Political Editor is alleged to have used a homophobic slur toward Lloyd Burr at a ministerial event in 2025, an incident confirmed by Finance Minister Nicola Willis, who said she heard “offensive language” and shut the event down.

The story, which had circulated privately for months, became public this week when I wrote about it on this Substack. This has triggered scrutiny not just of the incident itself, but of how it was handled and essentially covered up. The fact that TVNZ issued legal threats to another media outlet who was investigating the matter, raises massive concerns.

Sherman has now also been suspended from Parliament for five days after breaching press gallery rules in another unrelated incident and is not travelling with the press gallery to Singapore.

Meanwhile, I received some confusing legal threats from Stuff too.

Read my first article here and second article here.

Ani should feel flattered that the far left Stuffers think her blog is so widely read that they need to threaten her over what she says. Good on her for telling the Stuffers where to go. —Eds