Election 2026 Political Podcast | Waatea Panel
Fuel prices, iwi radio cuts, the fishing bill and a housing market locked against the young — this Election 2026 political podcast goes straight to the pressure points.
Election 2026
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Government Mileage Increase For Home Support Workers “A Joke”
They’re caring for New Zealand’s most vulnerable — and paying for it themselves. Even after the increase, many say they’re still going backwards.
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Alliance Party Calls For Aged Care Investment In West Coast Bed Crisis
More than 50 beds gone. An ageing population rising. And nowhere for people to go except already stretched hospitals.
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Business confidence collapse – This Government will be roasted once fuel gridlock hits NZ Economy
The warning signs are flashing — collapsing confidence, rising costs, and a government with no plan. This isn’t stabilising. It’s building.
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I’m no Christian but Easter, Sunday & Christmas should be sacred
Three days. That’s all it was. Now even that’s too much to ask from a system that never wants to switch off.
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If new move on powers aren’t a street intelligence program why not use body cams?
If it’s about safety, why no body cams? If it’s about protection, why does it feel like surveillance?
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Another Chris Bishop backdown on urban intensification is another punch in Auckland’s face
Auckland is told to grow — then blocked when it tries. Another housing cut, another reminder of who really holds the power.
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My Final Word clip: Iwi Radio Cuts Could Cost Lives — And Silence Māori Voices
Cut the funding, lose the signal. And when the next emergency hits, that silence won’t be theoretical — it’ll be dangerous.
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Greenpeace challenges MPs to drink nitrate-contaminated water at Parliament
If it’s safe, drink it. That’s the challenge Greenpeace just laid down on Parliament’s lawn — and it cuts straight through years of political avoidance on nitrate contamination.
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Flotilla to send clear warning to Government: ban bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf – Greenpeace
They can call it fisheries management all they like, but bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf looks more like sanctioned vandalism. Now a flotilla is heading out to make that impossible to ignore.
