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Well, for iwi Māori, I'd say it's parochial because their main concerns relate to their specific ancestral whenua.

TPM does get sucked into that nationalist stuff from broader indigenous political movement. A lot of that is rhetoric, though; despite the policy and press statements about a separate Parliament, there doesn't appear to be a massive amount of planning for a House of Lords or Scottish Parliament.

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The Kotahitanga Parliament seems to be the popular model at the moment, and that's not a formal separate state, but more like an extended hui.

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Oh God save us from another bloody hui!

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