Budget 2026 Māori Funding Cuts: Labour Slams National
Nearly $100 million stripped from Te Puni Kōkiri, no new help for housing, jobs or hauora. Labour says this is Tama Potaka’s Budget legacy.
Willie Jackson
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Waatea Budget 2026 Coverage: Māori Voices, Politics and Economy
Four hours of Budget Day analysis through a Māori lens, with political leaders, economists and commentators asking who wins, who loses and what it means for whānau.
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Treaty Principles Referendum by stealth
The Government is accused of quietly stripping Treaty protections from legislation after New Zealanders overwhelmingly rejected the Treaty Principles Bill.
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Labour Warns Māori-Crown Relations Are Collapsing
Labour says the Coalition Government’s approach to te Tiriti and education reform is driving Māori-Crown relations into dangerous territory. With tamariki Māori paying the price.
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Te Kaupapa Tackles TPM Chaos & Prison Crisis
Te Kaupapa dives into Te Pāti Māori tensions, Hone Harawira speculation, prison politics and the Maiki Sherman controversy.
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Te Kaupapa Election 2026 weekend political podcast: with Willie Jackson and Matthew Tukaki
War abroad. Power at home. And an economy that doesn’t add up. Te Kaupapa pulls it all apart.
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MEDIAWATCH: A Willie Jackson masterclass in how to take down Sean Plunket
If you’re going to take on Plunket — this is exactly how you do it.
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Willie Jackson: Government making it worse for families
Labour’s Willie Jackson says new Salvation Army data shows unemployment rising and families struggling as cost of living pressures deepen.
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Willie Jackson: Prisons need a rethink if they are to be less racist
We all understand the anger anyone of us would feel when a loved one is hurt by someone. You wouldn’t be a human being if you didn’t want to punish a person for doing something criminal or cruel to someone you identify with, but allowing anger and fear to dominate our thinking has created more problems than solutions within our prison system and it’s time we all acknowledged that.
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Time to rethink immigration
It’s time that we were honest about why the Government have opened the flood gates of immigration and it’s time we were honest about how we are going to change it.
