Scrutiny Week Came and Went. Ten Māori Rangatahi Were Inside the Government's Boot Camp. The Minister Couldn't Tell Parliament How Many Were Still There.
Ko Wai Koe? — The Thirty-Minute Execution I want you to picture something. It is the morning of 17 March 2022. Eight hundred seafarers — real people, with kids to feed, rents to pay, lunches packed the night before — sit down in front of screens. A pre-recorded Zoom message plays.
$167 million of public money. A decade of losses. Dead tuna in the community drain. An 88.3-percentage-point gap below industry standard. And a minister who cannot be found for comment.
"What we know is a drop. What we don't know is an ocean." — H.G. Tannhaus, Dark
THE RETREAT OF THE COWARD: He called your outrage "spurious." He called the maps "fantasy land." He called 5.2 million hectares "bits and bobs." Today he ran. The bill he still holds is still a weapon. Don't let him reload.
Tama Potaka stripped Section 4, narrowed Treaty settlements, and opened 5.2 million hectares of tribal territory to foreign capital. The briefcase is the new musket. And this time, a Māori man is carrying it.
THE ARSONIST INVESTIGATES THE FIRE
How New Zealand's Media Class Conjured a Centrist Saviour from a Margin of Error — While a White Supremacist Neoliberal Government Dismantled Everything Whānau Built
How Labour's Red-Tie Neoliberal Project Manager Protected the 0.3% and Abandoned the 96% — Again
The Winden Knot and the Koru - A Journey from Te Kore to Ki te Ao Mārama — Through the Caves of Winden
While Western economists spent 40 years building the cage that starves our tamariki, Māori were living the answer. Now they've written it down. The Luxon Government calls it "dreamland." We call it Tuesday.
A Prime Minister Went to War For a $10 Billion Man and Left 169,300 Tamariki to Starve
