waateanews.com
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson joins Waatea as a turbulent week at Parliament puts homelessness, conservation, the use of urgency and the…
Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere says the party is pursuing an ambitious agenda linking constitutional transformation, Treaty-based governa…
RUSH TAKES AIM AT NATIONAL: FOODSTUFFS BREAK-UP POLICY HAS THE WRONG TARGET Former All Black and Foodstuffs North Island owner-operator Eric Rus…
Climate change is shaping up as another major Election 2026 dividing line, with political parties setting out sharply different positions on the…
Health has become the latest Election 2026 battleground, with Labour accusing Health Minister Simeon Brown of avoiding public scrutiny as pressu…
A long-awaited transformation of Whangārei Hospital has reached a major milestone, with the first sod turned on a redevelopment that will delive…
South Coast residents have confronted officials over the future of Wellington’s troubled Moa Point Wastewater Treatment Plant, as Tiaki Wai and…
Immigration has exploded into a major Election 2026 battleground, with New Zealand First and Labour unveiling sharply different plans for who sh…
The political fallout from the Ministry of Social Development payment debacle is widening, with Labour demanding greater accountability from the…
The Tertiary Education Union is launching a fierce attack on ACT’s plan to ultimately abolish the Waitangi Tribunal, warning the proposal would…
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is calling on the New Zealand Government to ban imports linked to Israeli settlements in the Occupied…
Rural health leaders are putting political parties on notice ahead of the election, warning that where New Zealanders live continues to have too…
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi is issuing a blunt warning to whānau Māori ahead of Election 2026 — enrol, turn up and vote, or risk retu…
As ACT campaigns to scrap Māori and Pacific medical-school admission pathways, one of Aotearoa’s leading public-health experts says the bigger q…
One of Aotearoa’s leading disability-rights advocates says the Waitangi Tribunal’s damning findings on the disability system confirm what tāngat…
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is putting the weekly grocery bill and Te Tiriti o Waitangi at the centre of the Greens’ Election 2026 pit…
Te Pāti Māori President John Tamihere is putting one of the biggest questions in modern Māori politics squarely before voters: after generations…
More than 7,000 submissions have helped force significant changes to the Government’s controversial move-on orders legislation, but Labour says…