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Adesanya - "He's Done, He's Complicit, and You're Lying to His Face" -30 March 2026
Let's start with the facts, because apparently in New Zealand sports media facts are optional.
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"Putin's Petrol in Your Ute: How the Luxon Government Launders Blood Money Through an Indian Refinery and Calls It Energy Security" - 30 March 2026
They sanction the shadow. They welcome the substance. And they hand Ukrainians the bill.
"Te Moana Hoko: How Shane Jones Sold Our Oceans to the Highest Trawler" - 30 March 2026
Mōrena Aoteaora, Let us be rid of the dumbnamic duo of Koro Jones and Peters (once and for all). They should never be let back into the proximity of power. They are abusers. The Deep Dive Podcast Money Politics and Mori Fishing Rights0:00/1177.8786391× Listen to a lively
"PANTOMIME OF THE DYING WAKA: How Luxon's Hollow Helmsmen Stole Another Chief's Paddle While Aotearoa Drowns in Diesel" - 28 March 2026
They dressed in borrowed feathers. They sang another chief's waiata. And when the taniwha came — they handed whānau a government pamphlet and called it a rescue.
"KO WAI MĀTOU? A Seven-Day Reckoning: What the Numbers Say About the Māori Green Lantern — And Why You Should Be Part of What Comes Next" - 28 March 2026
He whakaahua nō te ao, he whakaahua nō te pō. A picture of the day, a picture of the night.
"KO WAI KA TIAKI I TE PONO? Who Guards the Truth When the Billionaire Owns the Paper?" - 27 March 2026
A Canadian billionaire buys into New Zealand's largest media company. He secretly funds a racist's lawsuit against a Māori journalist. A court finds the rhetoric racist. And the paper he owns barely blinks.
"PAPERS PLEASE: How Mark Mitchell, Paul Goldsmith, and Simeon Brown Are Building a Police State That Only Arrests the Poor — and Māori First" - 27 March 2026
When the government cannot fix homelessness, it makes being homeless a crime.
"STANFORD'S COLONIAL CLASSROOM: How the Luxon Government Is Dismantling Māori Education" - 26 March 2026
He Kōrero Whakatuwhera — The Hidden Connection On 24 March 2026, educators representing 34 organisations walked out of a hui in Auckland and issued the most damning joint condemnation of a New Zealand government's education policy in living memory. As revealed by NZEI Te Riu Roa, they said the
"THE EMPTY TANK: How a White Supremacist Neoliberal Government Left Its Carers on the Side of the Road to Die" - 26 March 2026
They built the road. They filled the tank of the powerful. They watched the caregivers — brown, female, rural, poor — run dry. And then they called it policy.
“The Pātaka Beside the Strait” - 25 March 2026
Kia ora Whānau, The pātaka is burning, and he’s selling tickets Winston Peters stands in front of a burning pātaka and insists it is “not obsolete”, that only his party cares, that the arson was somebody else’s idea – all while his own government clutches the petrol can and
"THE PĀTAKA IS ASH: How Nicola Willis and Christopher Luxon Poured Petrol on the Poor and Called It Relief" - 25 March 2026
Mōrena ano Aotearoa, In my working life, I've worked as a Labourer for the Rotorua District Council, Security Guard for Armour Guard and a Doorman at a Rotorua Nightclub, the Department Of Social Welfare, Skill New Zealand, The Tertiary Education Commission, Careers New Zealand, a Manager for Iwi,
"THE POISON PEN MINISTER: How Erica Stanford Weaponised the Taxpayer-Funded State Against Her Own Critics — and Why a Wounded Luxon May Be Letting Her Burn" - 25 March 2026
She signed the email. The Crown paid for it. Tamariki Māori are paying the real price. And the man who should fire her is too afraid to strike.