Media Watch

There are real political dangers in the drive-by Labour and the Greens to remove the tail coating rule within MMP.

We need WAY more chiding from Helen Clark and far less anything from Kate Hawkesby.

With the Māori Party picking up a second MP after the count of the specials, a possible new political alliance opens up for Labour and Māoridom.

The steady rise of conspiracy theories spread on social media platforms risks undermining our society while creating a toxic polarisation and we see external powers manipulating debate on social media to influence elections.

Nanaia faces her first challenge as Foreign Minister with the Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank.

The incredible line reality that Māori make up a quarter of the new Cabinet makes the Māori Caucus the most powerful in NZ political history.

The preliminary cannabis referendum results have just come in and with over 480 000 specials still to be counted, 46% have said yes to cannabis reform while 53% said they were happy with racist drug laws.

With the Warehouse dumping jobs, no one is getting a bargain and claiming that ill made imported products are somehow ‘sustainable’ is eye rolling.

If the only solution that we arrive at with the mutation that is Oranga Tamariki is to divert funding to a Māori Authority to run, then we have failed miserably in this crucial debate.

One of the most interesting changes with a majority Government is the re-emergence of the importance of the factions inside a Party.