John McLean: Peak Maori radicalism?

Has maximum Māori separatism been reached?

The 50th Rainbow-tongued Māori Language Week is over.

Graham Adams: Media in damage control after by-election

Last Saturday’s Tāmaki Makaurau by-election in which Te Pāti Māori’s Oriini Kaipara trounced Labour’s list MP Peeni Henare has sparked references to November’s hikoi as a turning point in engaging Maori voters. Yet the extremely low turnout indicates the very opposite.

Māori activists and their sympathisers in the media have feasted long and hard on the hikoi, repeatedly presenting it as a harbinger of the dominant political force they insist disaffected Māori are becoming.

Ele Ludemann: Voting for right

Peeni Henare will contest the Tāmaki Makaurau by-election for the Labour Party.

This is the seat he lost by just 42 votes in 2023 in a contest over which serious questions still have not been properly answered.

Act, National, New Zealand First and the Greens aren’t standing candidates.