Treaty Principles Referendum by stealth
The Government is accused of quietly stripping Treaty protections from legislation after New Zealanders overwhelmingly rejected the Treaty Principles Bill.

The Government is accused of quietly stripping Treaty protections from legislation after New Zealanders overwhelmingly rejected the Treaty Principles Bill.

National claims the NCEA replacement will lift standards, but critics see something far darker… An education system rebuilt around competition, conformity and private interests.

New Zealand panics about immigration while making it economically impossible for working people to have kids. Erica Stanford’s comments touched a nerve because nobody wants to admit the system is broken.

KiwiBank was created to protect New Zealand’s economic independence. Selling it off now would hand even more power to Australian banks already extracting massive profits from Kiwi households.

Kāinga Ora is being accused of abandoning its public housing purpose as developments are scrapped, properties sold off and homelessness deepens.

Rocket Lab’s soaring profits and expanding US military ties are forcing a bigger question: has New Zealand quietly become part of America’s war machine?

The Government may have lost the public fight over the Treaty Principles Bill, but critics say it’s now dismantling te Tiriti protections quietly through changes buried across legislation.

The Waitangi Tribunal has delivered a brutal warning over the Government’s education reforms, and the Greens say Luxon can no longer hide the ideological agenda underneath them.

With petrol and diesel prices surging, Labour says National’s planned fuel excise increase would pile even more pressure onto families and businesses already stretched to breaking point.

Labour says the Coalition Government’s approach to te Tiriti and education reform is driving Māori-Crown relations into dangerous territory. With tamariki Māori paying the price.