Children's Minister and deputy Labour leader Kelvin Davis has apologised for comments aimed at an ACT MP.
Davis told Karen Chhour to "cross from her Pākehā world into the Māori world", in response to questions about Oranga Tamariki contracts.
He said she was "looking at the world from a vanilla lens". But Chhour is Māori and did live in state care.
RNZ political reporter Anneke Smith has the story.