#Te Ao News

"THE PROPHET'S POISON: He Whāiti Kino — The Man Who Burns Your House Down and Sells You the Ashes as Hope" - 14 June 2026

The Deputy Prime Minister dismantles Māori rights by day, performs outrage about it by night, and asks a white Cambridge crowd to call it salvation. By Ivor Jones |

2026 BUDGET - THE SCRIPT AND THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE: HOW A POETRY GRADUATE, A FORMER NATIONAL MINISTER TURNED MEDIA OVERLORD, AND A CANADIAN BILLIONAIRE WITH ANTI-TREATY VIEWS ARE BURNING AOTEAROA TO THE GROUND — AND CALLING IT RESPONSIBLE MANAGEMENT

While Nicola Willis recites her Atlas Network script and Steven Joyce runs the printing press, 84,000 of our most vulnerable whānau are told to find an extra $31 a week. This is not a budget. This is …

"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.