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New Zealand’s aged-care system is heading towards an affordability and capacity crunch unless major structural changes are made now, according to the man tasked with reviewing how Aotearoa cares for its ageing population.

David Cunliffe, Chair of the Aged Care Ministerial Advisory Group, joins Waatea following the release of a major report containing 40 recommendations aimed at creating a more sustainable and accessible aged-care system.

The review paints a picture of a system under increasing pressure as New Zealand’s population gets older and more people require support at home, residential care and healthcare services.

At present, aged care can involve a complicated mix of home and community support, residential facilities, GPs, hospitals, carers and government agencies.

The advisory group says that fragmentation can make the system difficult for older people and their whānau to navigate, while increasing pressure on already stretched health services.

The financial challenge is also growing.

Without significant reform, the cost of aged care is expected to nearly double over the next 20 years, while demand for residential beds and workers continues to rise.

The group’s recommendations propose shifting more emphasis towards helping people remain safely and independently in their own homes for longer.

But keeping people at home requires more than simply reducing reliance on rest homes.

It means strengthening home and community support, improving coordination between health and aged-care services and ensuring whānau and carers have the support needed to make home-based care sustainable.

The report also calls for additional residential-care capacity to meet growing demand, alongside a more integrated system that follows people through different stages of ageing rather than forcing them and their whānau to navigate disconnected services.

One of the more politically challenging questions is how the country pays for it.

The advisory group wants the Government to reconsider how aged-care costs are shared between taxpayers and people who have the financial means to contribute towards their own care.

The argument is that reform now could ultimately save the country substantial amounts of money.

The group estimates its package could avoid more than $830 million a year in unnecessary taxpayer costs by 2037/38, while improving health outcomes and reducing pressure elsewhere in the health system.

For Māori, the conversation also needs to address what ageing well looks like for kaumātua.

Supporting kaumātua to remain connected to whānau, whenua, whakapapa and community can require different models from a one-size-fits-all aged-care system.

That places culturally appropriate home support, Māori providers and whānau-centred approaches firmly within the wider discussion about reform.

There is also the workforce challenge.

More older people will require more nurses, caregivers, home-support workers and health professionals, meaning any expansion of services will depend on whether New Zealand can recruit, train, retain and properly support the people providing that care.

For Cunliffe and the advisory group, the message is that waiting will not make those challenges disappear.

The question now is whether the Government will turn the report’s 40 recommendations into action — and whether Aotearoa is prepared to invest today in the system tomorrow’s kaumātua will depend on.

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The battle for New Zealand audiences is increasingly being fought on global digital platforms, but new NZ On Air research is putting the spotlight on what Māori, Pacific, Asian and younger audiences actually want to watch, hear and engage with.

Allanah Kalafatelis, NZ On Air’s Head of Communications and Research, joins Waatea as the agency releases new audience findings following its latest Where Are The Audiences? research.

NZ On Air says it is now moving to annual reporting on audience behaviour, alongside dedicated monitoring of four key groups — Māori, Pacific peoples, Asian peoples and youth.

For Māori media, one of the biggest challenges is not necessarily whether audiences value local content, but whether they can find it in an increasingly crowded global media environment.

Previous dedicated NZ On Air and Te Māngai Pāho research found Māori audiences were attracted to local content because of its relatability, humour, authentic characters, familiar people and places, Māori culture, history and New Zealand music.

But Māori audiences were also spending more time on international platforms, reducing their chances of discovering those local stories. Social media and recommendations from friends and whānau were important ways Māori discovered new content.

Rangatahi Māori are particularly important in that shift, with younger audiences heavily engaged with social media, gaming and global digital platforms.

That presents a major challenge for Māori broadcasters and content creators.

Producing a strong Māori story is only part of the equation. Increasingly, that kaupapa also needs to appear on the platforms where rangatahi are already spending their time and compete against an almost unlimited supply of international entertainment.

Te reo Māori remains another crucial part of the picture.

Earlier Māori audience research found viewers valued seeing and hearing te reo, while preferences differed depending on fluency. Many Māori, including fluent speakers, indicated they also valued content where te reo was naturally incorporated into accessible conversations rather than necessarily requiring programmes to be entirely in te reo.

The findings have significant implications for organisations including Radio Waatea, Whakaata Māori and Māori content producers trying to serve audiences across different generations and levels of reo proficiency.

They also raise questions about how public media funding should respond.

NZ On Air says understanding changing audience behaviour directly informs its investment decisions, including how it supports the creation and discoverability of New Zealand content. Its current strategy specifically identifies research into Māori and youth audiences as important to ensuring locally made content remains relevant and can actually be found.

The pressure from international platforms is particularly obvious among tamariki. Separate research released last year found 69 percent of New Zealand children used YouTube or YouTube Kids daily, while only half were engaging with local content at all.

NZ On Air has responded by supporting initiatives such as KIDOGO, which puts locally produced children’s stories and waiata directly onto YouTube rather than expecting tamariki to move away from the platform they already use.

That may offer a wider lesson for Māori media.

The future may not be about choosing between traditional Māori broadcasting and global platforms, but ensuring Māori stories, reo and perspectives can travel successfully across both.

For Kalafatelis and NZ On Air, the research provides evidence for future funding decisions.

For Māori media, it poses a bigger kaupapa — in a world dominated by global algorithms and international entertainment giants, how do we make sure Māori audiences can still see themselves, hear their reo and discover stories that come from home?

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Māori tourism leader Dale Aotea Stephens is taking his experience from the tourism sector onto the political campaign trail as the National Party candidate for Christchurch Central.

Stephens joins Waatea wearing two significant hats — as Chair of New Zealand Māori Tourism and as a candidate seeking a place in Parliament at Election 2026.

His tourism role puts him close to an industry where Māori businesses offer something distinctive to international and domestic visitors — experiences built around whakapapa, whenua, manaakitanga, storytelling, kai and connections to te ao Māori.

For Māori tourism operators, the opportunities are significant. Aotearoa’s Māori culture is a major part of the country’s international identity, and Māori-owned businesses have the potential to capture more of the economic value generated by visitors looking for authentic cultural experiences.

But opportunity comes with challenges.

Operators must navigate rising business costs, workforce pressures, infrastructure constraints and the seasonal nature of tourism while maintaining the cultural integrity that makes Māori tourism distinctive.

The sector also raises a bigger economic question for iwi and Māori businesses — how tourism growth can create sustainable employment for rangatahi, strengthen regional economies and ensure the benefits generated from Māori culture flow back into Māori communities.

Stephens is now carrying that economic experience into an entirely different contest.

As National’s candidate for Christchurch Central, he is campaigning for a diverse urban electorate where voters will be weighing issues ranging from the cost of living and employment to housing, infrastructure, health, education and the future development of Ōtautahi.

His candidacy also puts another Māori voice into National’s campaign at a time when the party is seeking to demonstrate how its economic policies can deliver for Māori businesses and whānau.

The transition from tourism leadership to electoral politics presents Stephens with an interesting balancing act.

In one role, his job is to advocate for an industry and Māori operators across the motu. In the other, he must convince Christchurch Central voters that he can represent their local priorities in Parliament.

Those two worlds intersect around economic development.

Whether it is a Māori tourism operator trying to expand, a rangatahi looking for their first job or an Ōtautahi household facing rising costs, the election debate is increasingly focused on where sustainable economic opportunities will come from and who will benefit from them.

For Dale Aotea Stephens, the campaign provides an opportunity to make the case that Māori enterprise and economic growth do not sit on the margins of New Zealand’s economy — they are an increasingly important part of its future.

Now the question is whether voters in Christchurch Central will give him the opportunity to take that message from the tourism sector to Parliament.

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After more than a quarter-century fighting to secure a place for Māori in Aotearoa’s telecommunications landscape, Antony Royal is preparing to step down as founding chief executive of Māori-owned technology group Tū Ātea.

Royal’s departure marks the end of a significant chapter for an organisation that has grown from its roots in Māori spectrum advocacy into a substantial commercial telecommunications and technology operation.

For 26 years, Royal has advocated for Māori interests in radio spectrum, including playing a central role in negotiations with the Crown that helped create the foundations for Tū Ātea.

Those negotiations were about more than access to frequencies.

Spectrum is the invisible infrastructure behind mobile networks and wireless technologies, making Māori participation and ownership in the sector an important question of economic development, rangatiratanga and ensuring Māori are not left behind as technology evolves.

Under Royal’s leadership, Tū Ātea has grown from an organisation of just three staff to more than 150 people.

The business is now tracking towards more than $50 million in annual revenue, has around $100 million in assets and has completed four acquisitions as it expands its commercial footprint.

Among its major achievements has been the launch of Aotearoa’s first Māori-built commercial private 5G network, demonstrating how the spectrum secured through years of advocacy can be transformed into real technological and economic opportunities.

The growth also signals a wider shift taking place across the Māori economy.

Iwi and Māori organisations are increasingly moving beyond being consumers of digital technology towards becoming owners, investors, developers and decision-makers in the infrastructure that will underpin the future economy.

For Royal, the leadership change is intended to be a generational transition rather than an ending.

Tū Ātea is moving into another phase of commercial growth, and handing leadership to the next generation will be part of ensuring the organisation continues developing beyond those who established it.

Royal will also remain deeply connected to the kaupapa.

He will continue advocating for Māori interests as Co-Convenor of the Māori Spectrum Working Group, maintaining his involvement in an issue that has defined much of his professional life.

He also continues his leadership responsibilities as Chair of Ngāti Tamaterā.

The next challenge for Tū Ātea will be turning the gains achieved through spectrum settlements, acquisitions and commercial growth into enduring benefits for Māori.

That includes developing Māori capability in technology, creating high-value employment for rangatahi and ensuring Māori have a meaningful stake in emerging industries including 5G, connectivity and the wider digital economy.

Royal leaves the chief executive’s office having helped move the kaupapa from fighting for Māori access to spectrum to building a Māori-owned commercial technology enterprise around it.

After 26 years, the baton is being passed — but the kaupapa of Māori ownership and rangatiratanga in Aotearoa’s digital future continues.

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The battle over who could form the next Government is intensifying, with Labour leader Chris Hipkins facing questions over Te Pāti Māori, the rapid rise of The Opportunity Party and just how flexible Labour is prepared to be when coalition negotiations begin.

Hipkins joins Waatea as the November 7 election approaches and the political landscape becomes increasingly complicated.

Labour has been positioning itself as a government-in-waiting, campaigning heavily on the cost of living, jobs, healthcare and housing while presenting an experienced front bench headed by Hipkins, Carmel Sepuloni, Barbara Edmonds, Willie Jackson and Ayesha Verrall.

But attention is increasingly shifting from individual party policies to the numbers required to govern.

A major point of tension is Labour’s relationship with Te Pāti Māori.

Hipkins has indicated it is unlikely Te Pāti Māori MPs would hold senior roles in a future Labour-led government, adding another layer to an already complicated relationship between the two parties.

Te Pāti Māori has previously signalled a willingness to find common ground with other parties where kaupapa align, while maintaining its political independence. Co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said earlier this year that parties with significant differences can still work together on areas of agreement.

That leaves Hipkins walking a political tightrope.

Labour is fighting to rebuild its own support among Māori voters and win back Māori electorates, while Te Pāti Māori remains a potential part of the parliamentary arithmetic Labour could need to form a government.

There is also a new factor dramatically changing those calculations — The Opportunity Party.

The latest 1News Verian poll put Opportunity on 9 percent, up three points and potentially giving it nine MPs. Labour was on 30 percent, National 29, the Greens 12, ACT 9, New Zealand First 8 and Te Pāti Māori 1 percent, with the polling model assuming current Māori electorate incumbents retain their seats.

On those numbers, Labour, the Greens and Te Pāti Māori would have 59 seats between them and would fall short of a parliamentary majority.

Adding Opportunity would lift that grouping to 68 seats and potentially put the party in a powerful kingmaker position.

That momentum means voters are no longer looking only at the familiar National-ACT-New Zealand First and Labour-Greens-Te Pāti Māori combinations.

The possibility of another party entering Parliament with a sizeable caucus could reshape negotiations after election night and give Hipkins more options — but potentially create another set of policy compromises.

The stakes are particularly important for Māori voters.

Labour is campaigning to regain ground among Māori after its heavy losses in the Māori electorates in 2023, and Willie Jackson has been given responsibility for Māori-Crown Relations as Labour puts greater emphasis on winning those seats.

Meanwhile, the wider campaign is unfolding against a difficult economic backdrop. Unemployment is at an 11-year high and economic conditions have contributed to political pressure on the Government, while National has also endured renewed leadership turmoil.

For Hipkins, the challenge is now twofold: convince voters Labour has a credible programme for government while also demonstrating what a Labour-led administration could realistically look like.

As the polls tighten and smaller parties become increasingly important, Election 2026 is turning into a game of coalition chess.

And for Māori voters, one of the biggest questions will be not only who wins their vote — but how much influence Māori representatives will have when the next Government is formed.

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Education is shaping up as a major Election 2026 battleground, with PPTA Te Wehengarua president Chris Abercrombie putting the spotlight on curriculum reform, teacher workload and whether schools and kura will receive enough resources to deliver the changes being demanded of them.

The Government is undertaking significant reform of the national curriculum, including changes across both the New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa, alongside changes to assessment and secondary qualifications.

The scale and speed of those reforms have become a point of tension with teachers.

PPTA Te Wehengarua has strongly opposed parts of the Government’s education reform programme, particularly proposed changes that it says would give the Education Minister greater influence over curriculum decisions and shift responsibility for professional standards away from the Teaching Council.

Abercrombie has argued that years of major changes across education have placed sustained pressure on teachers and school leaders, raising questions about whether reform is being developed with the profession or imposed on it.

Funding will be central to that debate.

Budget 2026 included more than $131 million for literacy, te reo matatini, maths and pāngarau initiatives, including professional development, targeted teaching support and new classroom resources.

The Government has also adjusted parts of its curriculum timetable. Years 9 and 10 content under the New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa is due to be taught from the beginning of 2027, while implementation of some Years 0 to 8 learning areas has been phased across later years.

For Waatea audiences, however, the debate extends beyond the mainstream education system.

The future strength of kura kaupapa Māori, wharekura and Māori-medium education will be a critical measure of whether education reform works for Māori.

The Government says it is investing in the bilingual education system, including new Te Reo Rangatira and STEM resources for wharekura, new pāngarau resources and a te reo Māori professional development programme intended to reach up to 50,000 teachers.

But the question is whether those resources will be enough to meet the aspirations of Māori communities and support the kaiako required to deliver them.

PPTA’s own 2026-2029 strategy commits the organisation to supporting tino rangatiratanga for Māori education, increasing Māori participation in the teaching profession and advocating for greater investment in public education.

That puts teacher recruitment and retention firmly into the election conversation.

New curriculum documents can set ambitious expectations, but schools and kura still need enough specialist teachers, manageable workloads, professional development, classroom resources and leadership capacity to turn those expectations into better outcomes for ākonga.

For Māori, there is an additional challenge — ensuring reform strengthens rather than sidelines te reo Māori, mātauranga Māori and pathways where Māori communities can exercise greater authority over the education of their tamariki.

As Chris Abercrombie joins Waatea, the election-year question facing politicians is becoming increasingly straightforward: if Aotearoa wants a more ambitious education system, is it prepared to properly fund the teachers, kaiako and kura expected to deliver it?

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Green Party MP Hūhana Lyndon is bringing the focus back to Māori representation, Te Tiriti and the future of the whenua as she reflects on a recent visit to Wharekauri and an increasingly fascinating battle for the Māori vote ahead of Election 2026.

Lyndon joins Waatea following her visit to Wharekauri, where the political conversation comes against a significant period for tangata whenua and the future of the islands.

Her reflections provide an opportunity to look at the issues raised during the visit, the aspirations she heard from communities and what political parties in Wellington need to understand about the realities of life on Wharekauri.

But back on the mainland, Lyndon is also at the centre of an unusual election strategy being promoted by Te Pāti Māori.

At its campaign launch in Tairāwhiti, Te Pāti Māori urged supporters to concentrate on electing its candidates in the Māori electorates while making their own choice with the party vote, including potentially backing the Greens or Labour.

The strategy is designed to exploit the way New Zealand’s MMP electoral system separates the electorate and party votes.

Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rāwiri Waititi has used Te Tai Tokerau as an example, arguing voters could elect Te Pāti Māori candidate Aperahama Edwards while potentially helping Green and Labour candidates enter Parliament through their respective party lists.

That makes Lyndon’s position particularly interesting.

She is herself standing for the Greens in Te Tai Tokerau, where she faces Edwards, Labour’s Willow-Jean Prime and former Te Pāti Māori MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi in what has become one of the country’s most crowded Māori electorate contests.

The Greens announced Lyndon as their Te Tai Tokerau candidate at Waitangi earlier this year as part of a wider push to increase Māori representation. She joined Tania Waikato in Waiariki and Heather Te Au-Skipworth in Ikaroa-Rāwhiti among the party’s Māori electorate candidates.

That creates an obvious tension in Te Pāti Māori’s strategy.

While encouraging a Green party vote could strengthen the Greens’ representation in Parliament, asking voters to back Te Pāti Māori candidates directly puts those candidates into competition with Māori standing for the Greens.

It also raises questions about how the two parties intend to manage their relationship after the election.

Both parties position themselves strongly around Te Tiriti, Māori rights and environmental protection, and the Greens have substantially increased Māori representation within their 2026 candidate line-up.

But political cooperation at the national level does not remove competition at electorate level.

For Lyndon, Te Tai Tokerau puts that reality directly in front of voters.

The bigger question is whether Māori voters see the two votes as an opportunity to maximise Māori representation across several progressive parties, or whether they prefer to give both votes to the political movement they most strongly support.

From the communities of Wharekauri to the campaign trail in Te Tai Tokerau, Lyndon’s challenge is therefore about more than winning votes.

It is about demonstrating what Green Māori representation offers whānau, hapū and iwi — while navigating a relationship with Te Pāti Māori that could simultaneously involve electoral competition and cooperation after polling day.

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I waitohua e te Karauna rātou ko Ngāti Mutunga te whakataunga Tiriti mō Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri ki Rēkohu.

E ai ki te Minita Whanaketanga Māori, e ai ki a Tama Potaka, kua tata ki te 30 tau a Nāhinara e kōkiri ana i tēnei whakataunga.

Kei roto i te whakataunga ētahi wāhanga e whakamānawa ana i ngā hiahia me te mana o te imi Moriori, ā, i hainatia ai tā rātou ake whakataunga Tiriti i te tau 2020.

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I te nuinga o ngā kaunihera, me mātua mōhio ngā tia o ngā hui kaunihera e rua rā i mua, mēnā rānei ka kōrero Māori i tētahi hui, kia whai wā ai rātou ki te āta whakarite i tētahi kaiwhiti reo.

E ai ki te Manukura o Te Hiku o te ika, e ai ki a Moko Tepania, ko tana tūmanako, hei te tau 2040, i te wā e whai ana a Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori kia kotahi miriona ngā kaikōrero Māori, ka māori noa te noho o te reo Māori i ngā tari kāwanatanga o te motu.

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Aotearoa cannot have a resilient economy without a resilient maritime network, with the Maritime Union arguing the future of shipping must also recognise the health of Tangaroa and the communities that depend on the moana.

Maritime Union representative Carl Findlay says the concept of oranga moana provides a framework where economic activity on the ocean can operate alongside ecological restoration, cultural wellbeing and social responsibility.

Rather than treating the moana simply as a transport corridor or economic resource, the approach draws on principles including kaitiakitanga and the relationship between people and Tangaroa.

The issue has major implications for Aotearoa because international trade remains overwhelmingly dependent on shipping.

Maritime New Zealand says more than 99 percent of the country’s international trade by volume is carried by sea, making ports, shipping routes and maritime workers essential to the movement of goods into and out of the country.

For an island nation deep in the South Pacific, those connections are an economic lifeline.

Ships carry major exports including dairy products, meat and forestry products to international markets while bringing fuel, machinery, vehicles, manufactured goods and other essential imports into Aotearoa.

That dependence also makes maritime resilience a national security and infrastructure issue.

A strong coastal shipping network can provide another way of moving freight around the country when roads and railways are damaged or disrupted.

The vulnerability was demonstrated during Cyclone Gabrielle, when severe flooding and slips cut road and rail connections across parts of the North Island, leaving some communities isolated and forcing the country to find alternative ways to move essential supplies.

The Government has also identified coastal shipping as an important part of New Zealand’s freight system, particularly because shipping can move large volumes of freight while reducing pressure on congested roads.

For the Maritime Union, however, resilience also means maintaining New Zealand’s own maritime skills and workforce.

That includes having trained seafarers, functioning ports and sufficient domestic shipping capability rather than becoming increasingly dependent on international operators to maintain critical supply chains.

For Māori, the maritime debate carries another dimension.

Te ao Māori views the relationship with Tangaroa through whakapapa and responsibility, meaning economic activity on the moana cannot be separated from the obligation to protect its mauri for future generations.

Oranga moana brings those ideas into the modern maritime economy by asking whether shipping, ports, fishing and other marine industries can generate prosperity while also restoring environmental, cultural and community wellbeing.

That could mean cleaner shipping technology, stronger environmental protections, investment in maritime workers and ensuring iwi, hapū and coastal communities have a meaningful role in decisions affecting their rohe moana.

Climate change is making that conversation increasingly urgent.

More severe weather events threaten roads, railways, ports and coastal communities, while international pressure is also growing for the shipping industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

For Findlay and the Maritime Union, the challenge is therefore bigger than simply keeping cargo moving.

Aotearoa needs a maritime system capable of keeping the country supplied during a crisis, supporting skilled local jobs and international trade, while recognising that long-term economic prosperity depends on the health of the moana itself.

In an island nation, looking after Tangaroa and protecting the shipping lifelines connecting Aotearoa to the world may increasingly become part of the same conversation.

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