Matua Kahurangi: How Waipareira survived deregistration by paperwork and power

As you would have seen in the lead-up to Christmas, as soon as my annual holidays started I was largely absent from both Substack and X. I deliberately switched off my RSS feeds, stepped away from politics, and spent my time learning AI video production. For once, I stopped watching the circus.

If it were not for Katrina Biggs, better known online as A B’old Woman, I would still believe that Waipareira Trust had finally been deregistered as a charity.