New Zealand has a bad habit of trying to do everything, everywhere, all at once. It means national-level policy takes giant swings. If something goes wrong, it goes wrong everywhere.

A Māori health board is established for the whole country, then disestablished for the whole country. Views differ on which swing was the mistake. Co-governance becomes required across the whole country, then falls out of favour.

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