#Waatea News

"THE LANDLORD PARLIAMENT: HOW AOTEAROA'S RULING CLASS VOTED ITSELF RICH WHILE WHĀNAU SLEPT IN CARS" - 28 May 2026

They passed the laws. They bought the houses. Our people paid the rent, paid the tax, paid the trauma — and this white supremacist neoliberal government called it "fairness." This is not policy. This …

The Comfortable Thief“THE COMFORTABLE THIEF” - 28 May 2026How 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 PoorThe Māori Green LanternIvor Jones The Māori Green LanternGovernment MPs acquired 25 extra investment properties after passing pro-landlord reformsA New Zealand site covering pop culture, politics and social life through features, criticism, interviews, videos and podcasts.The SpinoffJoel MacManusThe Spinoff

"THE SINKING LID: NICOLA WILLIS FIRES 8,700 WORKERS WHILE WHĀNAU STARVE" - 20 May 2026

I, Ivor Jones — Te Māori Green Lantern — am done being polite about a white supremacist neoliberal government that is dismantling the Crown's own Treaty obligations while the polls show the people ar…

Nearly 9000 public sector jobs to go, government agencies to merge, Nicola Willis announcesAlmost 9000 jobs to go as the government looks to merge agencies and increase the use of AI and other digital tools.RNZJo MoirRNZReutersWaatea News

"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.

The Māori Green Lantern8 November 2025PSA's analysis of the Atlas Network18,000 interested parties called the Regulatory Standards Bill "constitutional warfare"