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Aaron Smale: The Māori Queen’s call to action - we must be warriors of life (opens the original)
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Māori Queen, Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po: Elegant and strong, realistic and ambitious words. Photo / TVNZ There’s a saying that you get the leaders you deserve and I have to wonder what we’ve done to deserve the current lot. The choices on offer in this election are not exactly inspiring. So it was not only a relief but a source of hope when I just recently read the speech of a young Māori wahine from Ngāruawāhia. The young woman happens to be the Māori Queen, Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wa
Aaron Smale: Fact fiddling and parliamentary privilege at play in the Beehive (opens the original)
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Social Development Minister Louise Upston. Photo / Getty Images After surviving a second failed coup, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon thought he’d take a celebratory spin by fiddling a few alternative facts. Luxon and Social Development Minister Louise Upston both told Parliament no one’s benefit was cut following a law change that swamped ministry officials with paperwork – but that is exactly what was happening. When these facts were exposed, Luxon had to
Aaron Smale: The leaders of both major parties lack guts and vision (opens the original)
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Ignoring changing demographics and carry on appealing to older white voters: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (left) and Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins. Photo / Getty Images This column nearly wrote itself when the National Party threatened a leadership bloodletting for a second time. But what started as high drama rapidly descended into farce. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon escaped the knife, although his leadership will now bleed internally for the forseeable future. If his colleagues don
Aaron Smale on Act’s education policy: Just a load of crap (opens the original)
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Karen Chhour, Paul Henry and David Seymour: Opining from a great height on kids they don't know or care about? Photo / NZME There’s obviously an election around the corner, going by the ramping up of attention-seeking idiocy. One of the latest examples (and there’s an overabundance of choice) was Act’s plan to kick kids out of class, potentially physically manhandle them, refer them to Police Youth Aid and fine their parents “because there are a lot of little shits in classrooms,” according to n
Aaron Smale: This region is taking the brunt of the coalition’s determination to wreck the environment (opens the original)
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There are about half a dozen overseas-owned forestry companies operating on the East Coast. Photo / Getty Images After Cyclone Gabrielle devastated the Hawke’s Bay and Tairāwhiti regions in 2023, I took a slow drive around the East Coast, where my grandmother grew up and where generations before her lived. That trip turned into a series on the damage and causes of forestry slash that was eventually collected into the small book Tairāwhiti: Pine, Profit and the Cyclone. It wasn’t just damage to t
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