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“The Coloniser’s Hologram: Deconstructing Trump’s “Warrior Dividend” and the Architecture of Deceit” - 18 December 2025
The Whakairo of Lies
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“When Power Masks As Process – Unpacking the Scapegoating of a Māori Coaching Wairua” - 18 December 2025
Te Kōrero Tōtika
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“How Erica Stanford and Elizabeth Rata Imposed an Untested Curriculum While Schools Screamed “Stop”” - 18 December 2025
Reckless
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“The Nelson Tenths: Crown Trust Breached for 186 Years—A Settlement Finally Arrives, But Questions Remain” - 18 December 2025
Hidden Connections: Cui Bono & the Architecture of Settler Colonial Extraction
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“The Electoral Amendment Bill 2025: Democracy Under Siege—A Network of Power and Disenfranchisement” - 18 December 2025
This legislation, which passed its third reading on 16 December 2025, represents a calculated assault on democratic participation dressed in the language of efficiency. The Bill ends same-day voter enrolment, bans all sentenced prisoners from voting, increases anonymous donation thresholds, and restricts when Māori and marginalised communities can exercise
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“The Chorus Debt Sale Exposes New Zealand’s Fiscal Failure” - 18 December 2025
Government’s Creative Accounting
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“The $385,307 Shell Game: How Waipareira Paid Its CEO a Bonus to “Repay” Himself” - 18 December 2025
The Ring Reveals: A Laundering Scheme in Plain Sight
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“The Cage of Kindness: How Labour’s Neoliberalism Trapped a Nation” - 17 December 2025
Prologue: The Photograph We Keep There is a photograph that haunts progressive politics in Aotearoa. It shows Jacinda Ardern shaking hands with EU officials, beaming at the cameras. Historic Trade Deal Signed Mountain Tūī has written a love letter to this photograph. The essay celebrates Ardern and Shaw as “ultimately
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“The Theatre of Empty Hands: Barbara Edmonds and the Neoliberal Art of Demanding Everything While Offering Nothing” - 17 December 2025
When Labour’s finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds declared on 16 December 2025 that “the Government have lost control of the economy,” she performed a masterclass in opposition politics’ most cynical art: the drive-by critique. When pressed repeatedly by journalists to name even one immediate action Labour would take to
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“The Demagogue Who Cried Demagogue: David Seymour’s Textbook Projection” - 17 december 2025
Paywalled Article When Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour called Chlöe Swarbrick a “demagogue” in his pre-Christmas interview with the NZ Herald, the irony was thick enough to choke on. Here was a man whose entire political project ticks every box in the textbook definition of demagoguery—anti-establishment rhetoric,
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“How Chris Bishop’s MCERT Consolidation Weaponises Public Infrastructure Against Māori and the Environment” - 17 December 2025
The Ministry of Corporate Plunder
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“Luxon’s Permanent Blame Game: The Moral Vandalism of Never Taking Responsibility” - 17 December 2025
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has fashioned himself the political equivalent of a tenant who moves into a house, smashes the windows, floods the bathroom, then stands in the wreckage screaming about how terrible the previous occupants were. Newsroom’s December 15, 2025 interview with Luxon, promoted on Newsroom’s Facebook