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Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern

Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern
"The Forty-Five Minute Theft: How Six Ministers Stole $12.8 Billion from the Hands of Wāhine" - 20 March 2026

"The Forty-Five Minute Theft: How Six Ministers Stole $12.8 Billion from the Hands of Wāhine" - 20 March 2026

They logged on for 45 minutes, logged off richer by $12.8 billion — and every last cent came from the wages of women who care for our sick, teach our children, and hold this nation together

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 20 Mar 2026
"The Pātaka Is Ash: How Nicola Willis Stood Before a Burning Storehouse and Called It Warm" - 19 March 2026

"The Pātaka Is Ash: How Nicola Willis Stood Before a Burning Storehouse and Called It Warm" - 19 March 2026

"Not Unusually So" — The Four Most Dangerous Words in Aotearoa's History of Imperial Abandonment

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 19 Mar 2026
"SELLING THE WAKA: How Judith Collins Just Handed Aotearoa's Sovereignty to the Empire of Death" - 18 March 2026

"SELLING THE WAKA: How Judith Collins Just Handed Aotearoa's Sovereignty to the Empire of Death" - 18 March 2026

While whānau go hungry and our tūpuna lands lie broken, the Crown slips into borrowed armour, flexes for Washington, and calls it "defence." This is not protection — it is colonisation with better marketing

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 18 Mar 2026
"Winston Peters — A Walking Contradiction, A Forked Tongue in a Taonga He Was Never Worthy To Carry" - 18 February 2026

"Winston Peters — A Walking Contradiction, A Forked Tongue in a Taonga He Was Never Worthy To Carry" - 18 February 2026

He Kanohi Pepeke: The Many Masks of the Taniwha Who Cannot Tell the Truth

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 18 Mar 2026
"The Government That Burned Our Healing House Is Now Selling You a Box of Band-Aids" - 17 March 2026

"The Government That Burned Our Healing House Is Now Selling You a Box of Band-Aids" - 17 March 2026

The government stole billions from our health system, fired thousands of healers, and silenced the voices of Māori medicine — then announced $25 million and expected applause

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 17 Mar 2026
"How 2,500 Te Whatu Ora Workers Fought for 11 Months and Were Handed a Pay Cut Dressed as a Victory" - 17 March 2026

"How 2,500 Te Whatu Ora Workers Fought for 11 Months and Were Handed a Pay Cut Dressed as a Victory" - 17 March 2026

"They stripped the rākau bare and offered the roots a cup of muddy water. Then they called it generosity."

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 17 Mar 2026
"When Nicola Willis Told South Auckland to Check Their Tyre Pressure While $3 Petrol Crushed Their Whānau" - 17 March 2026

"When Nicola Willis Told South Auckland to Check Their Tyre Pressure While $3 Petrol Crushed Their Whānau" - 17 March 2026

The Minister who doesn't need help. The families who can't survive without it. The government that made this crisis — and now offers carpooling advice.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 17 Mar 2026
"HE WAKA KOTAHI, HE HINAKI HOU: LABOUR'S NEOLIBERAL MASK AND THE MĀORI VOTES THEY ARE HUNTING" - 15 March 2026

"HE WAKA KOTAHI, HE HINAKI HOU: LABOUR'S NEOLIBERAL MASK AND THE MĀORI VOTES THEY ARE HUNTING" - 15 March 2026

National swings the taiaha at your face. Labour smiles and slowly bleeds you out. Both leave you on the ground. Only one asks you to thank them for it — then sends Willie Jackson to collect your vote

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 15 Mar 2026
"Ko te Ingoa, Ko te Uara: The Title-Seeker Who Built a Wall" - 15 March 2026

Five Eyes

"Ko te Ingoa, Ko te Uara: The Title-Seeker Who Built a Wall" - 15 March 2026

He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata. What is the greatest thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 15 Mar 2026
"He Ahi Kā, He Ahi Kōrero: Labour And National - The Battle for What Belongs to All of Us" - 15 March 2026

Accountability

"He Ahi Kā, He Ahi Kōrero: Labour And National - The Battle for What Belongs to All of Us" - 15 March 2026

Kia ora Aotearoa, I hope this essay finds you in a fighting spirit and gives you an insight to our collective assets and how this neoliberal government of the last 40 years, keeps doing what it does, no matter what colour the govt might represent - Red - Blue. They represent the

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 15 Mar 2026
"HE WAKA KOURA: THE GOLDEN ESCAPE - IF YOU HAVE A GOLDEN TICKET" - 14 March 2026

Political corruption

"HE WAKA KOURA: THE GOLDEN ESCAPE - IF YOU HAVE A GOLDEN TICKET" - 14 March 2026

When the Bombs Fall, the Ultra-Wealthy Board a Jet. When the Smoke Clears, They Bill You for the Bullets

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 14 Mar 2026
"WHEN THE PETROL TANKER RUNS DRY: How a White Supremacist Neoliberal Government Left Māori at the Bottom of the Fuel Queue" - 14 March 2026

Fuel Wars

"WHEN THE PETROL TANKER RUNS DRY: How a White Supremacist Neoliberal Government Left Māori at the Bottom of the Fuel Queue" - 14 March 2026

When they sold the refinery, stripped the reserves, gifted the profits offshore, and waved a four-level laminated plan at the people — that was not incompetence. That was the harvest.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 14 Mar 2026
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