"The Taxidermied Treaty: How Hobson's Pledge Stuffs Brown Faces to Sell Aotearoa a Gutted Citizenship" - 24 August 2026
Sawdust Wearing Skin — Two Brown Faces, One White Supremacist Script, And The Whānau Left Holding The Bill
Sawdust Wearing Skin — Two Brown Faces, One White Supremacist Script, And The Whānau Left Holding The Bill
A National Network Is Being Carved Up While Whānau Carry The Risk
They Call Rangatiratanga A Fantasy So They Can Strip Treaty Protections In The Real World — And Leave Whānau To Carry The Cost.
This white-supremacist neoliberal government does not solve homelessness. It manages the evidence of its own cruelty—then leaves charities to hand out plastic survival cocoons while whānau wait years for a door that locks.
Justin Nelson says handing over the keys is inevitable. Richard Irvine says rugby's soul fight was "hit and miss." Here is what actually happened when we checked their homework
He built the trap in 2017. His own candidate is using a version of it in Te Tai Tonga right now. And this week he stood up and called Te Pāti Māori dangerous for fishing the same water. I'm calling it what it is: a career built on Māori votes, dressed up as concern for Māori seats.
Twenty-seven years of warnings, a co-governance partner locked out of its own risk data, and eight bodies later — this is what happens when a council treats a sacred maunga like a liability line-item instead of a living tupuna.
A minister's colleague weeps on Facebook for history's darkest chapter while his caucus quietly guts 53 te reo teaching roles, buries a $712 million hole in Māori funding, and rewrites the "big idea" of this country's own colonisation out of existence — and dares to call it honesty.
A comprehensive analysis of every major claim made by Rt Hon Helen Clark on Te Ao with Moana, 17 August 2026, tested against the documented record
Four governments, three named experts, one list that grows for everyone except us. I did the maths. It wasn't an accident.
They called it clean water. The High Court called it unlawful. The whānau of Rotokākahi got the pipe, the injunction, and the police — while the institutions that failed them called it progress.
The 2026 donations register is a shearing shed where the same six hands fleece the same three pens — and a Māori party surviving on its own president's overdraft.