Budget 2026 Fails Māori and Te Tiriti – Greens
Marama Davidson says Budget 2026 makes the Government’s priorities brutally clear: landlords, fossil fuels and military spending before Māori, whānau and taiao.
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Budget 2026: Where There’s A Willis There’s No Way
Māori funding goes backwards while the wider Budget grows by billions. Te Pāti Māori says Nicola Willis has chosen war, prisons and the wealthy over whānau.
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Budget 2026 Māori Funding Cuts: Labour Slams National
Nearly $100 million stripped from Te Puni Kōkiri, no new help for housing, jobs or hauora. Labour says this is Tama Potaka’s Budget legacy.
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Luxon Shields Polluters From Mike Smith Climate Lawsuit
Mike Smith won the right to take major emitters to court. Now Luxon’s Government is changing the law before the evidence can be heard.
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National Drops The Mask, Six Months Before Election 2026
National has stopped pretending to be centrist. Six months before Election 2026, the cruelty is out in the open and the target is anyone too exhausted to fight back.
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Fonterra are environmental vandals and this Government are climate criminals
The Government is moving to protect Fonterra and major polluters from climate lawsuits just as floods, droughts and climate chaos hammer New Zealand harder than ever.
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Moana’s masterclass interview with Matua Winston
Moana Maniapoto didn’t let Winston Peters dance away in fog and fury. She held the line. And exposed how thin the old magic has become.
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Capitalism Is Failing Tairāwhiti Youth
One in three young people in Gisborne are distressed, and no amount of resilience talk can hide the deeper failure: poverty, alienation and capitalism.
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WAATEA NEWS COLUMN – Who will people complain to about Māori now BSA has been shut?
The BSA became a complaints box for people furious at hearing te reo Māori. But scrapping it without stronger media standards is madness.
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NZ Unemployment Pain Hits Workers Hard
The Government can spin the numbers however it likes. But 163,000 people unemployed and 406,000 underutilised is not recovery. It is warning sirens.
