NZME

“Well, that was short-lived!” wrote Don Brash in a distraught email regarding the publisher's decision to cancel an advertisement it was set to run.

It follows nearly a week of mounting pressure after the news publisher ran an ad from the right-wing lobby group of the front-page last Wednesday.

It follows a front-page advert last week from Hobson's Pledge, calling for the restoration of the foreshore and seabed to public ownership.

In a decision released today, the authority has described her comments as “serious” and “inflammatory” with the potential to cause serious harm to Māori and Pacific people.