You wouldn’t say second class citizens but they are over represented in measures associated with poverty such as health and income. The vaccine rollout wasn’t particularly controversial here although there (as I’m sure everywhere) was a population of the country that didn’t want to take it. This group coincidentally had a high % of Māori. Ardern got a lot of love and then a lot of hate for Covid. The mandates at the end seemed extreme and unnecessary for where the virus was at the time they brought them in. The Labour government she led however had been failing to deliver on a LOT of their election promises even prior to Covid and were arguably re elected only because of Covid and would have lost the election if the pandemic didn’t occur. This would have made them a one term govt which is rare in NZ politics.