Debbie Ngarewa-Packer Breaks Silence on TPM Chaos
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer finally addresses Te Pāti Māori’s internal turmoil, Hone Harawira speculation and the stakes of Election 2026.

Debbie Ngarewa-Packer finally addresses Te Pāti Māori’s internal turmoil, Hone Harawira speculation and the stakes of Election 2026.

The Te Tai Tokerau Party may have intended to shake up Māori politics — but critics fear it could end up helping Labour more than Te Pāti Māori.

Labour says National’s crackdown on rough sleeping won’t solve homelessness, it will just push vulnerable people out of city centres and into the suburbs.

National collapsing to 25% should terrify Luxon. The polls suggest younger voters are abandoning the Right while Winston cannibalises National’s base.

When media outlets stop reporting elections and start narrating inevitability, polling becomes less about democracy and more about manufacturing consent.

A Māori electorate once expected to stay comfortably with Te Pāti Māori is suddenly wide open after Mariameno Kapa-Kingi’s dramatic split and new party launch.

A catastrophic earthquake, war in the Pacific, economic collapse or Winston going full Farage. Are these the only scenarios where National and Labour unite?

UK Labour’s electoral punishment is a warning shot for New Zealand Labour: voters hammered by inequality want change, not managerial drift.

More Kiwis are out of work, wages are falling behind inflation and entire communities are being hit by closures. And Labour says National has no answer.

For decades New Zealand relied on migrant workers to prop up the economy, while trapping many in a temporary visa system with little long-term security.