Waatea News Column: The magnitude of ACT’s policy platform
The magnitude and scope of ACT’s attack on the State is as breathtaking as it is alarming. ACT believes in…
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Waatea News Column: Why banning anti-Maori petitions is true democracy
The decision by the Government to step in and stop the anti-Māori petition law from derailing Māori representation at Local Council is true democracy at its best.
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Waatea News Column: Bewildering political blunder by Kelvin Davis & Labour over Prison riot
Kelvin’s lack of leadership and the stepping up by the Māori Party is a seriously damaging political blow in the first days of 2021.
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Waatea News Column: Where the Waipareira Trust pandemic response goes, NZ should follow
One of the biggest dangers we have right now with the pandemic is the lack of effective community-wide testing.
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Waatea News Column: Letting beneficiaries suffer during a pandemic is no solution
We have much to be grateful about regarding Jacinda’s calm and graceful leadership during this latest crisis.
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Waatea News Column: Pandemic will hit Māori hardest
Māori are prone to respiratory disease at far higher levels than Pākehā, this pandemic will hit them hardest as it also targets people with chronic illness, which Māori again are over-represented in.
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Waatea News Column: Armed police trial a terrifying failure of public policy
The results from the armed Police trial have been made public and the numbers suggest a terrifying failure of public policy.
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Waatea News Column: Māori vote will decide election 2020
On the latest polling, the Government is likely to be National/ACT, but that is a knife edge majority that could easily flip to Labour come September.
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Waatea News Column: Another report highlighting structural racism met with the usual silence
Māori don’t need to know the justice system is racist, they live that reality and have lived that reality since the mounted constabulary was established in New Zealand.
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Waatea News Column: National’s new draconian Oranga Tamariki welfare reforms are anti-Māori, anti-women and anti-human
It’s difficult to know where to begin in attempting to sift the outright spite and maliciousness of National’s new welfare reforms. Firstly, let’s just acknowledge that while National say beneficiary and gangs, their angry voters hear Māori.