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.

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

They pulled the funding and thought Martyn Bradbury would disappear. One year later, The Bradbury Group is bigger, louder and heading straight into Election 2026.

Hone Harawira is not standing in Te Tai Tokerau, but he is far from silent. He names who he backs, what the Government is destroying and why Winston Peters must be stopped.

The Government is putting growth before nature. Gary Taylor says the EDS Conference 2026 is the moment to demand a better environmental mandate.

The Treaty rewrite agenda is too sweeping, too coordinated and too well-funded to simply be dismissed as populist politics.

Labour says Te Tiriti belongs in classrooms and is pledging to reverse what it calls the Government’s attacks on Māori education.

As the economy weakens and public sector cuts deepen, critics say the Government is fuelling culture wars instead of confronting inequality and corporate power.

The argument was that Treaty obligations would move to the Crown. Critics say the latest education reforms prove they were simply removed.

What children learn, how teachers are judged and who controls the profession could soon sit directly under ministerial authority.

Disabled communities say they were shut out again as the Government rushed through sweeping disability support law changes.