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"Back to Basics, Back to Brutality: How a "Hodgepodge" of Bills Became the Most Coordinated Assault on Māori Rights, Workers, and Democracy in a Generation" - 13 February 2026

NZ Politics

"Back to Basics, Back to Brutality: How a "Hodgepodge" of Bills Became the Most Coordinated Assault on Māori Rights, Workers, and Democracy in a Generation" - 13 February 2026

The coalition calls it "back to basics." Strip the euphemism and what remains is a legislative assembly line: each bill feeds the next, each deletion enables the next erasure, and by the time the House rises, the public service will serve the minister—not the people, not the Treaty, not the future.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern