Waatea’s Weekend Political Podcast Te Kaupapa with Shanan Halbert, Merepeka Raukawa-Tait + Bomber

🗳️🔥 TE KAUPAPA ELECTION ’26 — THE BIG ISSUES, NO DUCKING THE QUESTIONS
This weekend on Te Kaupapa Election ’26, we’re putting four big election issues on the table:
🔴 Māori unemployment — with unemployment at 11.5%, what are the political parties actually offering Māori whānau, rangatahi and workers?
🗳️ The youth vote — is the Electoral Commission doing enough to get young people enrolled and voting this election?
🏛️ Te Pāti Māori and constitutional reform — if major Te Tiriti and constitutional change is a bottom line for coalition negotiations, what could that mean for the next Government?
🩺 ACT and Māori medical school pathways — ACT wants Māori and Pacific preferential entry pathways gone. What could that mean for the future Māori health workforce?
Joining Matthew Tukaki on the panel are Labour MP Shanan Halbert, political commentator Merepeka Raukawa-Tait, and our resident token Pākehā, The Daily Blog editor Martyn Bradbury. 😁
Four issues. Three panellists. And with Election ’26 getting closer, plenty to debate.
📻 Te Kaupapa Election ’26 — this weekend on Radio Waatea.