Election 2026: How Labour’s Māori Caucus can win back Māori voters
As Election 2026 approaches, Labour’s Māori Caucus faces a strategic choice. Targeting Māori voters who backed National may matter more than fighting the Māori Party for electorates.
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WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Election 2026: The Government’s anti-Māori agenda vs the double standards of natural disasters
There is a fundamental double standard at the heart of this Government. For the last 2 years the National, ACT and…
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Waatea News Column: What latest Poll means for the Maori Party?
TVNZs latest Poll shows the same trend the TV3 Poll did, the National Party is in meltdown as the country…
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Waatea News Column: With NZ First sliding into political irrelevance, can the Maori Party save Jacinda?
The latest political poll spells real danger to the Labour-led Government. After ruling NZ First out as a possible coalition partner by National, NZF has slumped to 3%.
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Waatea News Column: Oranga Tamariki review: Deplorable, despicable and unacceptable !
The Whānau Ora report into Oranga Tamariki is out, and it is a deplorable, despicable and unacceptable read! 14 armed…
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Waatea News Column: The 5 big political issues for Maori in 2019
2019 was a difficult year politically with the promise of much but the delivery of little.
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Waatea News Column: It’s been 40 days since the Oranga Tamariki footage and the PM + her Minister have still not seen it
What possible excuse could the PM and the Minister directly in charge of the agency under scrutiny not have viewed this appalling footage?
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Waatea News Column: Our damaged, racist Prison Industry is the legacy of hate and spite as social policy
32 years after the Roper Report told us that our Prison system wasn’t working by jailing and punishing too many, we get another Justice Advisory report once again highlighting our debased prison system as deeply damaging, deeply racist and deeply counter productive.
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Waatea News Column: How is anyone surprised by the bullying report in Parliament?
How were any of us surprised by the bullying report into the toxic culture within Parliament? Look at how the…
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Waatea News Column – White supremacy and terrorism
Our SIS & GCSB are supposed to protect us from this type of act, yet despite being warned about the shooter and the Muslim communities own complaints about ratcheting violence, white supremacists weren’t seen as a threat and according to the last decade of SIS reports, have never emerged as a specific danger.
