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Te Kaupapa Election ’26 – Waatea’s Weekend Political Podcast with Dale Husband, Teanau Tuiono, Georgie Dansey and Bomber Bradbury
Joining us this week for Te Kaupapa Election ’26 – Waatea’s Weekend Political Podcast is host Dale Husband, Green MP Teanau Teanau Tuiono, Labour MP Georgie Dansey and Political Commentator Martyn Bradbury Move on powers Citizen arrests The report into Pay Parity by the People’s Select Committee and its impacts on workers, women, Pacifica and Māori?
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The Need For Schools to Develop Creativity
There seems to be a lull in the outpouring of educational nonsense from the government so I thought I’d take…
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GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – Class War: Leadership Counts
Class War: Leadership Counts There are tens of thousands of people in New Zealand without secure housing. Over 150,000…
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GUEST BLOG – Seeby Woodhouse – The Discombobulator
When Maduro was captured 6 weeks ago, I didn’t write an article, because frankly it was a fairly depressing prospect…
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The Need For Schools to Develop Creativity
There seems to be a lull in the outpouring of educational nonsense from the government so I thought I’d take the opportunity to start a series of articles outlining alternative visions for primary schooling in New Zealand. While my own…
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Epstein files flooding the zone and rewriting history
How will history record this moment in time – the opening months of 2026? For the North, the winter of…
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Why are so many people are concerned about Education & Training (System Reform) Bill?
I could write for many weeks about the Education & Training (System Reform) Bill that is making its way through…
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Analysing Ukraine: Starlink down, Ukraine attacks
The land campaign is evolving quickly, primarily driven by Russia’s recent communication problems: the loss of Starlink, and their decision…
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Has Trump painted himself into an Iranian corner?
The real danger from Trump kidnapping Maduro was that he thought he could just get away with unilateral force. There is a world of difference between Venezuela and Iran. Trump confusingly asked one of his advisors why Iran was refusing to fold. He doesn’t understand religious fanatics choosing death over…
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Chris only cares about Mary and Chuck and he doesn’t listen to experts
The naked contempt our Rich Christian Prime minister feels towards the bottom feeders is so surprising sometimes… …Chris only cares about Mary and Chuck and he doesn’t listen to experts. The experts told him that cutting food banks, cutting outreach, cutting transitional housing and changing the rules to the Emergency…
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Luxon hiding his quarterly KPI reports
Well, well, well… Government scraps its quarterly action plans The government appears to have scrapped its quarterly action plans, after not releasing one so far this quarter. At the start of the term, the prime minister released the things the government planned to do in its first 100 days. Once…
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Government Policy is exacerbating Child Poverty
No annual change in child poverty rates for year ended June 2025 No statistically significant movements occurred in child poverty rates in the year ended June 2025, compared with the year ended June 2024, according to figures released by Stats NZ today. Stats NZ Let’s be VERY clear. Government…
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Labour’s low expectations give Greens and TOP oxygen
It was a very interesting interview with Kieran McAnulty on The Bradbury Group this week, where he categorically ruled out…
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Wow, even for a cross burning, banjo twanging whero-neck local council politician – that’s racist
Even for a local council politician, this is appallingly racist! Mayor considering action after community board member shared ‘blatant racist’…
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Walking away from Trans Rights is a culture war revenge fantasy
The middle class woke, their fourth wave feminist allies and non-binary activists have really managed to ostracise and alienate everyone…
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Te Kaupapa Election ’26 – Waatea’s Weekend Political Podcast with Dale Husband, Teanau Tuiono, Georgie Dansey and Bomber Bradbury
Joining us this week for Te Kaupapa Election ’26 – Waatea’s Weekend Political Podcast is host Dale Husband, Green MP Teanau Teanau Tuiono, Labour MP Georgie Dansey and Political Commentator Martyn Bradbury Move on powers Citizen arrests The report into…
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MEDIAWATCH: The NZ Free Speech Union is the sound of one hand clapping
The NZ Free Speech Union is nothing but a Zionist Apologist Front that weaponises Free Speech for the right! They are part of the Taxpayers’ Union Stable of clients and are Atlas Network connected. They are bad faith actors who…
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WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Why Winston’s Māori Electorate Referendum is so dangerous
Matua Winston Peters has done a Seymour and called for a highly controversial and divisive race referendum, this time on the Māori Electorates. Matua Winston, who has run in Māori Electorates and has clean swept them for NZ First in…
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MEDIAWATCH: AI Bryce goes full alt-Right Elon Musk on Andrea Vance’s Twitter virtue signal
The man who still claims Chris Trotter is left wing, AI Bryce (we call him that because he’s admitted to using AI enhancement to write his posts), the great transparency campaigner has gone full Elon Musk on Andrea Vance’s Twitter…
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The Bradbury Group with Kieran McAnulty on Labour’s State of the Nation + Matthew Hooton, David Cunliffe and Quilae Wong political panel
A former Labour Leader, a NZ Herald columnist, the leader of a Political Party, the Shadow Leader of the House and a Marxist all walk into a bar. The barman looks up and says, ‘What do you think this is?…
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A Mini-Hoon with Ben Reid on Citrini's report about AI that unnerved global stocks
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The Weekly Hoon: Good climate policy better for economy & affordability; Housing the homeless better than hiding them
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- The GOP May Block Regulation of Corporate Landlords
- Keir Starmer Richly Deserves This Defeat
- Labor’s FOI bill is back from the dead — unchanged and still friendless
- Trump’s Cruelty Is Strangling Cuba
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- On a dancefloor at 2am, I heard Jacinda Ardern’s husband say they were moving to Australia. I don’t blame them | Johanna Cosgrove
- If Iran Kills US Troops, The Blame Rests Solely On The US And Israel
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Liberal Agenda
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The Liberal Agenda – Basement Theatre
In the Theatre, catch The Ruckus, a DIY fantasy nerd punk show. Part D&D, part improvised gig, three performers…
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The Liberal Agenda – Basement Theatre
In the Theatre, don’t miss Potluck: A Smorgasbord of Drag Talent, a high-energy showcase with a different line-up every night…
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The Liberal Agenda – Gig Guide
Bringing the best music + live entertainment to Aus + NZ since ’79 This month in music In February 1984,…
Daily Gallery
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Political Caption Competition
Would Jesus arrest the Homeless or Politicians?
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Political Caption Competition
The total disconnect between the fantasy world of privilege and wealth Luxon lives in vs the reality
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In Occupied Palestine – 23 February 2026
In Occupied Palestine Zionism in practice Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land Sanction Israel Gaza‘s growing…
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GUEST BLOG – Seeby Woodhouse – The Discombobulator
When Maduro was captured 6 weeks ago, I didn’t write an article, because frankly it was a fairly depressing prospect that we’re now at the stage of history where the USA is just going to start randomly capturing foreign heads…
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Guest Blog: Ian Powell – What do they know of balance sheets who only balance sheets know?
I’m a self-confessed ‘cricket nut’ or, as former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern once said of her finance minister Grant Robertson,…
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GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – RBNZ confessions
The Reserve Bank of NZ doesn’t decide what Money builds New Zealand doesn’t have a monetary policy problem. It has…
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GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – Ruthenasia, honoured. Why?
To my horror, I see Ruth Richardson got the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit last year. Personally,…
The Bradbury Group
The Bradbury Group – Treaty, Gas and Global Tensions
Live from Waatea, The Bradbury Group brings together politicians, journalists and commentators for Aotearoa’s most fearless weekly political debate. Tonight: Winston Peters’ proposed Māori electorates referendum, the Government’s controversial gas policy, the India free trade deal amid rising anti-immigrant sentiment, and what New Zealand should do if conflict erupts between America, Israel and Iran.
Raw News
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Political Caption Competition
Archaeologists in the Holy Land just uncovered a 3,000-year-old Israelite tablet… It reads: “Iran is only weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.”
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In Occupied Palestine – 25 February 2026
In Occupied Palestine Zionism in practice Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land Sanction Israel Gaza‘s growing death, injury and sickness 08:00, 25 February 2026 until 08:00, 26 February 2026 The total numbers of killed and wounded…
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Govt. Science Jobs Exodus Ramps Up – 134 Jobs Going At New Bioeconomy Institute – PSA
The Bioeconomy Science Institute, in existence less than a year, is shedding 134 jobs in the latest blow to the science workforce already gutted by hundreds of jobs losses since the Government began overhauling science and research agencies. The Bioeconomy…
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PSA And NZNO To Host Pay Equity Rally At Parliament
Workers belonging to the Public Service Association and New Zealand Nurses’ Organisation alongside public supporters will rally in support of pay equity at Parliament this Monday. Care and support worker Kate Halsall is bringing along a trolley of groceries to…