It was a strange spectacle, the recent televised presentation of Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne with Nanaia Mahuta, whose portfolios inexplicably include the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, without her having any apparent qualifications in this role. However, chosen by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who promised to govern for every New Zealander – but has obviously only remembered the governing part – Mahuta signals with what some regard as a disfiguring facial tattoo that she’s thrown in her lot with identity politics.