#Dismantling Māori Health: A Colonial Legacy Resurrected

"THE BURNING HEALING HOUSE" - Budget 2026 - 29 May 2026

How Simeon Brown Burned Our Healing House, Pocketed the Insurance, and Called the Ashes a Billion-Dollar Investment

Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern·May 28·19 min read

"THE COMFORTABLE THIEF" - 28 May 2026

How Louise Upston Robs Whānau Blind with a Smile, a Mortgage-Free Apartment, and $52,000 of Your Money — While She Cuts the Floor from Under the Poor

Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern·May 27·22 min read

Louise Upston ‘comfortable’ with rules allowing her to collect $1000 a week to live in own apartmentUpston is the minister responsible for lifting the eligibility threshold for homeowners claiming an accommodation supplement.RNZJo Moir RNZ and reported across multiple outlets Paula Bennett: The Architect of Systemic Betrayal Scoop documented and named bluntly in 2012

"They Gave Them a Permit to Destroy It - The Waiaua River swimming spot" - 21 May 2026

Bay of Plenty Regional Council handed landowners the legal cover to erase a community swimming place in the rohe of Whakatōhea — no public notice, no community consent, no shame.

Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern·May 20·13 min read

Loss of swimming hole a blow to communityBeacon Media Group Te Ara — The Encyclopedia of New Zealand Te Ara confirms Te Ara

"While They Poisoned the Pātaka, I Picked Up the Taiaha: How a White Supremacist Neoliberal Government Declared War on Māori Truth — and Lost" - 17 May 2026

They demolished the watchdog, bought the newsroom, starved the tamariki, and came for my platform — and I kept publishing. Over 1,000 essays later, the taiaha has not been laid down.

Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern·May 17·21 min read

The Māori Green Lantern 8 November 2025 PSA's analysis of the Atlas Network 18,000 interested parties called the Regulatory Standards Bill "constitutional warfare"