WAATEA NEWS COLUMN – Punts on the seven Māori Electorates
Seven Māori electorates. Multiple parties. One outcome. Whoever wins here could decide the next Government.

Seven Māori electorates. Multiple parties. One outcome. Whoever wins here could decide the next Government.

In a rare moment of unity, MPs back a bill that puts saving lives ahead of punishing drug use.

He scaled a cliff under fire for the Crown. Decades later, Te Pāti Māori says the Crown must finally honour Sgt Haane Manahi.

Te Pāti Māori is demanding the Crown correct a historic injustice and award Sergeant Haane Manahi the Victoria Cross he was denied.

Labour’s support for the India free trade deal may secure the numbers — but opens the door for Winston’s race-baiting politics.

The numbers are shifting — and suddenly the left has real options. A four-party progressive government isn’t just theory anymore. The question now is what they’d actually do with it.

Fuel prices explode, storms keep coming, and once again Māori communities are left to fend for themselves. Debbie Ngarewa-Packer joins 1-on-1 in 10 for a hard look at who pays when government planning collapses.

Labour up. National down. Wild swings like this don’t just happen — something has broken.

When Shane Jones is the one calling your anti-Māori meltdown “pathetic”, you’ve wandered well past dog-whistle politics and into full public embarrassment.

If education reform sidelines Te Tiriti, it’s not reform — it’s regression. The Tribunal hearings could force that truth into the open.