Waatea News

14/08/2024

Auckland City Mission warned yesterday that some Rinda brand pineapple lollies included in some oif its food parcels contained potentially lethal levels of m**h.

14/08/2024

The former National Party and ACT leader appeared on Radio Waatea this afternoon to explain his group’s reasons for publishing a front page ad in the New Zealand Herald calling for the Government to declare all of the foreshore and seabed is in public owsnership.

14/08/2024

Waatea Special with Don Brash & Matthew Tukaki

13/08/2024

Don Brash will be in our studio today to talk to our GM Matthew Tukaki about the Hobson Pledge advert in the NZ Herald.

13/08/2024

Pokarekare Ana being heard throughout the streets of Paris 😍 - Footage from the nzteam

12/08/2024

Standing room only as the service gets underway e te iwi

12/08/2024

Know somebody quitting? Do stuff together! It will help them keep their mind off the smokes. Help them break free [Sponsored]

12/08/2024

Paakiwaha had a kōrero with our GM Matthew Tukaki about NZ Heralds atrocious front page.

12/08/2024

As the publisher of Waatea News, I have made the decision to end any or all informal or formal agreements with the New Zealand Herald. Having reviewed the material printed last week, I cannot, and will not, in all good conscience accept that the Herald decided to accept an advertorial filled with misinformation – accepting a payment for what was essentially an advertisement sowing division between Māori and non-Māori.

As the National Māori News Service provider, I feel we must take a stand. That said I would be happy to debate the issue with Don Brash on Waatea, having read the statement issued by Hobsons Pledge. Here at Waatea we deal in facts. We deal in evidence – it is a shame that the Herald, only weeks before, published an impressive piece dealing with the whenua only to have that undone by this latest descent into mis information.

I have today written to our contact at the Herald informing them of my decision and to cease and desist publication of our content.

11/08/2024

Aue, This kind of front page is absolutely disgusting 🤮 How could you do this “ Most Kiwis have no idea that almost New Zealand’s entire coast is currently under application before the courts to be awarded to iwi as customary marine titles. SIGN THE PETITION “ 😞

10/08/2024

A $500k Donation has allowed this iconic Whare Taonga to reopen.

Photo Credit: Slyvie Whinray

08/08/2024

We are all ready to go for tomorrow’s launch of our new future. The studio has been made ready, the team are pumped and ready and our new lineup is going to be exciting!

Tomorrow at 9am we gather as a whanau to take step into a new era of not just Māori broadcasting but NZ broadcasting so in the coming days and weeks we will share more but rest assured it will be for you.

06/08/2024

Oue latest in Reo Maori News: 07 o Ākuhata 2024 Ngā Kawepūrongo a Waatea

06/08/2024

Question - is Maths a core competency? just as important for our builders, plumbers and sparkies as it is for the accountants, rocket ship designers and teachers

An expert in teaching maths to Māori and Pasifika students says the Government is exaggerating a crisis to justify fast tracking a new maths curriculum.

06/08/2024

How awesome is this?

Broadcaster and academic Scotty Morrison says turning his Māori Made Easy series into an audiobook means people can fit lessons around other daily activities.

06/08/2024

Are our politicians behaving badly?

New Zealand First deputy leader Shane Jones has welcomed former National Party leader Sir John Key’s call to party faithful to take the temperature down on race relations.

05/08/2024

Mōrena e te iwi, it’s a beautiful morning here in Tāmaki ☀️Home and Away has been acknowledging Te Ao Māori a lot lately but seeing Hirini Melbourne’s “Purea Nei” on tv is just awesome.

05/08/2024

How cool is with her Reo Māori - We couldn’t be more proud

03/08/2024

Ngāpuhi leaders walk out of hui with luxon

31/07/2024

Congratulations to E Tū Whānau Song Competition winner for Peoples choice most votes overall Devonjay Eke with waiata “Soldier on”

30/07/2024

NGĀ TOA WHAKAIHUWAKA O AOTEAROA SEVENS Photo Supplied: Getty Images / Michael Steele 🥇

29/07/2024

Split vote fails to deliver for Māori

Labour leader Chris Hipkins has made a major pitch to Māori voters with a speech to the Auckland City Mission calling out the coalition Government’s efforts to wind back progress on Māori and treaty issues and promote racist and revisionist history.

He says the last Labour Government made progress but failed to tell its story well enough on initiatives like the Māori health authority.

Mr Hipkins told Radio Waatea Labour won the party vote in all the Māori seats but lost six of the seven seats because many Māori felt they should split their vote seats to maximise the Māori voice in parliament.

“My message is you don’t need to do that. The Labour Party is absolutely committed to a strong Maori voice around the cabinet table. What we’ve seen since the election, and I get on well with some of our Maori Party members, but they seem to want to be a protest movement rather than a constructive, around the cabinet table partner in government and that’s fine if that’s what they want to do but if you want to have strong Maori representation around the cabinet table, that’s going to come from Labour’s Maori members and the more votes we get, the more of them there are going to be,” Mr Hipkins says.

Labour leader Chris Hipkins has made a major pitch to Māori voters with a speech to the Auckland City Mission calling out the coalition Government’s efforts to wind back progress on Māori and treaty issues and promote racist and revisionist history.

28/07/2024

Ok - so this what the PM said "Having 14 layers between the CEO and the patient, if you're a front-line doctor or nurse, what you're hearing is lots of management mush, but you're not getting real clarity about what's being expected of you,"

Turns out the list of 14 includes the patient, the DR and the Nurse.

Source RNZ https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/523463/patients-doctors-on-list-of-14-layers-of-management-at-health-nz

28/07/2024

State of the Māori Nation – we have paid the price of citizenship. Matthew Tukaki says:

"It doesn’t matter where you cast your eyes the State of the Māori Nation is under attack by a group of men who would have us believe we are the problem – I assure you whanau we are not the problem."

https://waateanews.com/2024/07/28/state-of-the-maori-nation-we-have-paid-the-price-of-citizenship/

Willie Jackson New Zealand Labour Party Labour Māori Caucus Shanan Halbert MP Ginny Andersen MP Kerrin Leoni

It doesn’t matter where you cast your eyes the Stat of the Māori Nation is under attack by a group of men who would have us believe we are the problem – I assure you whanau we are not the problem. When I stood at the back of the room to listen to former Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins, call out t...

28/07/2024

Matthew Tukaki writes why It’s hard to give evil a name ... but name it we must

It’s hard to give evil a name as it comes in many guises and disguises, but now we can; State care and faith-based organizations. Tens of thousands of our citizens and children over 50 years have had evil visited upon them; they didn’t walk through its door it crossed their thresholds – evil d...

28/07/2024

Pasifika Leaders and members resign from the Green Party. In a scathing open letter and read out at its hui on Sunday by Marie Laufiso speaking as Secretary of Pasifika Greens she says "The Greens’ principle of Non-Violence in the Green Party Charter has been again and again contravened by women Green MPs who routinely heckle and yell in the House, who intimidate other MPs and who bullied two wāhine Māori MPs. Contrasting the treatment of Elizabeth and then Darleen with that of two other women MPs this year leads us to ask, “Will wāhine Māori MPs who are perceived as a threat to the Co-Leaders’ comfort levels and ambitions always be an endangered species in the Green Party?” Read the full open letter here.

Pasifika Leaders leave Green Party in tatters

27/07/2024

According to GeoNet an earthquake has struck near Te Kaha - did you feel it?

27/07/2024

And we are off - a big mihi to everyone competing!

27/07/2024

from the NZ Film Commission - now this is awesome!