The Bradbury Group: Marama Davidson And Mike Smith
Marama Davidson, Mike Smith, John Tamihere, Matthew Hooton and Matthew Tukaki walk into The Bradbury Group. New Zealand politics may not survive the hour.

Marama Davidson, Mike Smith, John Tamihere, Matthew Hooton and Matthew Tukaki walk into The Bradbury Group. New Zealand politics may not survive the hour.

Teanau Tuiono says Budget 2026 makes the Government’s priorities brutally clear: Pasifika wellbeing is cut while landlords, fossil fuels and military spending win.

Marama Davidson says Budget 2026 makes the Government’s priorities brutally clear: landlords, fossil fuels and military spending before Māori, whānau and taiao.

Treasury’s own numbers show child poverty targets slipping out of reach. The Greens say National has chosen to leave tamariki behind.

The Greens say young people leaving state care should never be abandoned into homelessness while emergency housing systems collapse around them.

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

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.

Young people can’t find work, can’t afford study and are leaving the country in record numbers, yet the Government is still cutting education support.

Young New Zealanders are leaving, unemployment is climbing, and the Government’s answer is to make tertiary education harder to afford.