WAATEA NEWS COLUMN – Punts on the seven Māori Electorates
Seven Māori electorates. Multiple parties. One outcome. Whoever wins here could decide the next Government.

Seven Māori electorates. Multiple parties. One outcome. Whoever wins here could decide the next Government.

The Taxpayers’ Union used to talk about waste. Now it’s talking culture war, and people are starting to notice.

ACT loves free speech, right up until it doesn’t. Now their attack on the Greens is raising awkward questions.

Luxon wanted New Zealand to back the Iran war. Winston exposed it. Now the coalition looks like it’s tearing itself apart.

If the Government had leverage over TVNZ’s political editor for a year, this isn’t a scandal; it’s a warning. And now the timing raises even bigger questions.

Workers say the new leave law changes will make them worse off, and critics argue Brooke van Velden has already done enough damage.

A Super El Niño is coming, and it could smash through New Zealand’s climate denial, insurance system and political complacency all at once.

Trump’s Iran war is blowing out in cost and chaos, and may end up strengthening the very regime it was meant to crush.

Shane Jones wants to mine conservation land. Voters might just respond by throwing butter chicken at him on the campaign trail.

After a year of Erica Stanford’s wrecking-ball education reforms, Labour has finally put something on the table, and it’s bigger than just undoing the damage.