"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
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"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
"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
"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
"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."
"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.
"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
Accountability
"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.
Anti-Corruption
"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
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
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.
Housing Crisis
"Paul Goldsmith Doesn't Have a Homelessness Policy: He Has an Interior Design Policy — and the Design Calls for Your Whānau to Be Invisible" - 14 March 2026
Ko te Tōpuni o te Ariki: The Crown Wraps Its Shame in a Cloak and Calls the Darkness 'Law and Order'