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A major Treaty settlement milestone for Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri is putting the Chatham Islands firmly in the spotlight as Conservation Minister Tama Potaka turns his attention from election-year politics to whenua, whakapapa and the protection of Aotearoa’s taonga.

Potaka and Treaty Negotiations Minister Paul Goldsmith have travelled to Wharekauri as Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri reaches the final stages of settling its historical Treaty of Waitangi claims.

The settlement follows decades of negotiations over Crown actions affecting the iwi, including land alienation, the Native Land Court, fishing rights and the impacts on tikanga and reo.

Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri and the Crown initialled a Deed of Settlement in December 2025 after negotiations stretching back years. The proposed package is valued at $18 million and includes financial, commercial and cultural redress alongside a Crown apology and recognition of historical breaches of Te Tiriti.

The settlement is particularly significant because of the complex history of Rēkohu and Wharekauri.

Moriori reached their own Deed of Settlement with the Crown in February 2020. That settlement recognised Moriori as waina pono, the original inhabitants, and one of the tangata whenua groups of the Chatham Islands. It included a Crown apology, cultural redress and $18 million in financial redress.

The relationship between history, whenua and identity on the islands has taken on another dimension following the extraordinary discovery of an ancient waka.

The waka was found after Nikau Dix spotted an unusual piece of wood while walking along a remote Chatham Islands beach in August 2024.

A partial archaeological excavation subsequently uncovered between 600 and 700 pieces, including parts of cordage, sails and matting, while only about 10 percent of the waka itself has so far been recovered.

Radiocarbon evidence has placed material associated with the waka between about 1440 and 1470 AD, during a significant period of Pacific voyaging.

The discovery has attracted international archaeological interest, but it also carries deep cultural significance.

Moriori organisations have lodged a claim of ownership and believe the vessel could be connected with Rangihoua, a voyaging waka recorded in Moriori traditions.

Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri has also registered an interest in the taonga and what further investigation could reveal about the history of the islands. The question of ownership is before the Māori Land Court.

For Potaka, those issues sit alongside his responsibilities as Conservation Minister, where several recent developments are highlighting both the vulnerability and resilience of Aotearoa’s indigenous species.

In Taranaki, new investment is supporting coastal habitat restoration and the protection of kōkako, continuing efforts to restore ecosystems and strengthen populations of threatened native species.

There has also been excitement among conservation staff following a rare sighting of a spotted skink, providing another reminder of the species that can survive when habitat and predator pressures are properly managed.

On the West Coast, DOC is reporting encouraging progress with some of the country’s rarest kiwi.

Seventeen Haast tokoeka have been returned from Orokonui Ecosanctuary to the Haast Kiwi Sanctuary, while two more pukupuku, or little spotted kiwi, have been added to the monitored mainland population in the Adams Wilderness Area.

The Haast tokoeka population numbers only about 550 birds and remains nationally vulnerable. Conservation efforts include large-scale predator control, monitoring, Operation Nest Egg and protected kōhanga sites.

The discovery of mainland pukupuku has been equally significant. The population was rediscovered in South Westland after the birds had not been recorded there for about 50 years, and nine birds are now being monitored.

From an ancient waka emerging from the sands of Rēkohu to rare kiwi surviving in the forests of Te Waipounamu, the conservation portfolio increasingly intersects with whakapapa, mātauranga Māori and the relationship tangata whenua maintain with the natural world.

For Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri, the Treaty settlement marks another step in addressing a long history with the Crown.

But the wider story stretching from Wharekauri to Taranaki and the West Coast is also about what happens next — protecting whenua, recovering history and ensuring taonga species and cultural knowledge remain for the generations still to come.

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Mental health is shaping up as a key election issue, with Labour mental health spokesperson Ingrid Leary arguing more needs to be done as public concern grows over access to care and pressure on frontline services.

The issue comes into focus following Radio Waatea’s Question of the Day, which asked whether the Government is doing enough when it comes to mental health.

Nearly 1,000 people responded, with more than 90 percent indicating they believed more needed to be done.

While the informal poll is not a scientific measure of national opinion, the overwhelming response highlights the level of concern among Waatea’s audience as political parties begin making their case to voters.

Leary says the election campaign provides an opportunity to put mental health back near the top of the political agenda, particularly around whether people can get help when they need it.

For Māori, the debate carries particular weight.

Mental health services need to work for whānau Māori, including access to kaupapa Māori providers and approaches grounded in whānau, whakapapa, tikanga and community.

The wider challenge stretches from early intervention and primary mental healthcare through to specialist services, addiction treatment and acute care.

Workforce capacity is another critical part of the equation, with psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors, nurses, peer-support workers and kaupapa Māori providers all playing roles across a system facing sustained demand.

Leary’s challenge as Labour’s spokesperson is to convince voters her party can deliver a mental health system that is easier to access and better able to intervene before people reach crisis point.

The Government, meanwhile, has made mental health one of its health priorities, including establishing a five-year mental health and addiction target to increase access to specialist services.

That leaves voters with an important election-year question about whether the measures already underway are enough, or whether a bigger change in investment, workforce and service delivery is required.

For the hundreds of Waatea listeners who responded to the Question of the Day, the message was overwhelmingly clear.

Mental health cannot be treated as a side issue in this election.

For Leary and every political party seeking votes, the test will be moving beyond promises and showing whānau exactly how they will make getting mental health support faster, easier and more effective.

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Aotearoa has a new Children’s Commissioner, with experienced child protection advocate Jane Searle taking responsibility for ensuring the voices and rights of more than a million mokopuna are heard by those making decisions about their lives.

Searle began her five-year term as Te Kaikōmihana mō ngā Tamariki on August 1, succeeding Dr Claire Achmad.

She arrives with more than 15 years of experience across child protection and children’s rights.

Before taking up the role, Searle was chief executive of Child Matters, a national organisation focused on preventing child abuse and neglect. She spent 11 years with the organisation, including nine years as its chief executive.

Her career has also taken her from the courtroom to the frontline.

Originally trained as a lawyer, Searle practised in the Bay of Plenty before joining New Zealand Police. She worked as a frontline officer and later as a detective in a child abuse team, and has also held governance and specialist advisory roles.

Now her responsibility is much wider.

As Children’s Commissioner, Searle is the independent advocate for around 1.2 million mokopuna across Aotearoa, carrying the experiences and perspectives of children and young people into conversations with Government and the wider community sector.

For Māori, that advocacy carries particular importance.

Mana Mokopuna has responsibilities that include integrating te ao Māori approaches into its work, incorporating Te Tiriti throughout its mahi and building relationships with hapū, iwi and Māori organisations. Its strategic work also includes identifying opportunities to influence public policy affecting mokopuna and strengthening the Crown’s fulfilment of its obligations under Te Tiriti and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

That means the wellbeing of tamariki and rangatahi Māori cannot simply be treated as another statistic within the wider children’s system.

Whakapapa, whānau, tikanga, identity and connections to hapū and iwi all have a place in determining what good outcomes for Māori mokopuna should look like.

Searle takes office at a challenging time.

Children’s rights advocates continue to raise concerns across poverty, education, health, youth justice, online harm and the safety and wellbeing of vulnerable children. Those areas are among the issues currently being monitored through the Children’s Convention Monitoring Group.

There is also growing attention on the digital environments where rangatahi spend significant parts of their lives.

Recent work from Mana Mokopuna found young people held differing views about proposals such as restricting social media for under-16s, but there was broad agreement that stronger action was needed to protect children from online harm.

Searle’s appointment therefore comes with a significant challenge: ensuring decisions about children are not made without children.

For Māori communities, the test will also be whether the office can turn its commitment to te ao Māori into meaningful relationships with whānau, hapū and iwi, while ensuring tamariki Māori themselves have a genuine voice in the policies affecting their futures.

With a five-year term ahead of her, Jane Searle now carries one of the country’s most important independent advocacy roles.

Her job is ultimately about making sure the smallest voices in Aotearoa are powerful enough to reach the biggest decision-making tables.

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The weekly grocery bill is becoming an Election 2026 battleground, with the Green Party pushing for new powers to crack down on excessive supermarket prices.

Green Party MP and Commerce and Consumer Affairs spokesperson Ricardo Menéndez March says household budgets continue to be squeezed at the checkout, putting affordable kai firmly on the election agenda.

The Greens are proposing the Commerce (Excessive Pricing in Retail Grocery Industry) Amendment Bill, which would prohibit major supermarkets from charging prices considered excessive when compared with their supply costs and a reasonable profit margin.

The proposal would also introduce greater transparency around grocery pricing and give regulators stronger penalties when excessive pricing is established.

Potential penalties could reach $10 million, three times the commercial gain from the breach, or 10 percent of the company’s turnover, depending on the circumstances.

Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick is backing the push as part of the party’s wider affordable kai platform, arguing competition reforms have not moved quickly enough to reduce pressure on families.

The proposal comes against a grocery market that remains highly concentrated.

The Commerce Commission’s latest annual grocery report, released in June, found the major supermarket groups still control more than 80 percent of the national retail grocery market. Retail grocery prices had also increased, while margins and profitability remained relatively flat.

Menéndez March has been campaigning on supermarket prices throughout the year. In March, he highlighted annual food price increases of 4.5 percent and a 9.4 percent rise for fruit and vegetables while criticising what the Greens see as a lack of accountability for the supermarket duopoly.

For whānau Māori already facing pressure from housing, electricity, transport and other household costs, food inflation can force difficult decisions about what gets left out of the shopping trolley.

The political argument is now shifting towards whether competition alone can bring prices down or whether Parliament should directly regulate excessive supermarket pricing.

The Government has already been pursuing its own grocery competition reforms.

An updated Grocery Supply Code came into force on May 1, strengthening protections for suppliers dealing with Woolworths New Zealand, Foodstuffs North Island and Foodstuffs South Island. The new rules include protections against retailer retaliation and changes to practices involving wastage and promotional stock.

The Government is also progressing wider Commerce Act reforms aimed at predatory pricing and making it easier for new supermarket competitors to enter and expand in New Zealand.

Separate legislation announced this year would increase penalties for misleading pricing practices, including situations where shoppers are charged more at the checkout than the advertised shelf price or where purported specials are misleading.

But the Greens want Parliament to go further.

Their proposal puts the price of kai itself under scrutiny and raises a politically potent question ahead of the election: how much profit is reasonable when families are struggling to afford the basics?

For Menéndez March, supermarket reform is increasingly about more than competition policy.

It is about whether whānau have enough money at the end of the week to put healthy kai on the table.

With Election 2026 approaching, expect the supermarket checkout to become one of the places where the cost-of-living campaign is fought hardest.

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Labour’s tertiary education spokesperson Shanan Halbert says New Zealand risks losing more skilled workers overseas unless it rebuilds the connection between training, apprenticeships and real jobs.

The warning comes as the tertiary and vocational education sector undergoes another major restructure, while unemployment has climbed to 5.6 percent in the June quarter.

Stats NZ says 171,000 people are now unemployed, with the unemployment rate reaching its highest level in more than a decade.

Halbert says the pressure is particularly visible in the trades, where trained workers are looking offshore when they cannot find secure employment at home.

For Labour, that raises a bigger question about why New Zealand should invest in training plumbers, builders, electricians and other skilled workers only to lose them when the economy cannot provide enough work.

Labour has put apprenticeships at the centre of its election-year tertiary policy, promising to expand Apprenticeship Boost if it wins government in November.

Its proposal would pay eligible employers $500 a month for the first two years of an apprenticeship, doubling the current one-year period. Labour also plans to extend eligibility into more occupations, including road construction, water treatment and hairdressing.

Eligible apprentices would also be able to apply for a $1,000 grant towards tools and equipment, while additional funding would be provided for mentoring and support designed to help apprentices complete their qualifications.

The policy arrives as New Zealand dismantles the centralised vocational education structure built around Te Pūkenga and moves back towards a more regional system.

The new vocational education and training model began operating on January 1 this year. It includes eight Industry Skills Boards and 10 stand-alone polytechnics, while work-based learning is progressively being transferred into polytechnics, private training establishments and wānanga.

Around 250,000 New Zealanders participate in vocational education each year, with roughly half studying through providers and the other half learning on the job through apprenticeships and traineeships.

For Māori, the restructuring also puts renewed attention on the role of wānanga.

Under the redesigned system, wānanga can provide work-based learning alongside polytechnics and private training establishments, giving them a potentially significant role in developing training that reflects tikanga Māori and the needs of whānau, iwi and Māori businesses.

That regional focus could be particularly important in areas where iwi and Māori employers need workers across construction, infrastructure, primary industries, hauora and other essential services.

But the wider labour market remains challenging.

While filled jobs increased slightly in June, Stats NZ says the number of jobs in professional, scientific and technical services was down 1.8 percent compared with a year earlier. Overall unemployment also increased from 5.4 percent in March to 5.6 percent in June.

The Government is also investing in vocational pathways. Budget 2026 included almost $69 million to double Trades Academy places to 20,000 by 2030 and $15 million for Industry Skills Boards to develop at least eight new industry-focused secondary school subjects.

The political argument heading into the election is increasingly about what happens after people enter those pathways.

For Halbert, training more apprentices will mean little if businesses cannot afford to employ them, qualified tradespeople continue heading overseas, or Māori learners cannot access the culturally responsive support needed to complete their training.

With unemployment rising and the vocational system being rebuilt at the same time, tertiary education is shaping up as another election battleground.

The challenge will be ensuring New Zealand does not simply train its next generation of skilled workers, but gives them enough reason to build their futures here.

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Aotearoa’s aged care sector is facing a defining moment, with Aged Care Association chief executive Tracey Martin saying the country needs to confront how it will care for a rapidly growing older population.

The warning follows the release of the Aged Care Ministerial Advisory Group’s independent report, A Place to Grow Old: Securing the Future of Aged Care, which proposes one of the most significant overhauls of the sector in decades.

The report, chaired by former Labour finance minister David Cunliffe, contains 40 recommendations aimed at replacing what the group describes as a fragmented and increasingly unsustainable system.

At the centre of the challenge is demographics.

New Zealand’s population is ageing, demand for care is increasing and providers are already grappling with shortages of residential beds, service closures, workforce pressures and rising operating costs.

The advisory group warns the cost of aged care could nearly double over the next 20 years if the country continues with its existing model.

Martin, a former New Zealand First minister, now heads the Aged Care Association, the national organisation representing aged residential care providers across Aotearoa.

For providers, the report puts longstanding concerns about the sustainability of residential care firmly in front of the Government.

One of the major recommendations is targeted funding to increase the number of aged residential care beds, particularly in communities where shortages are expected to become most severe.

But the report also argues that simply building more beds will not solve the problem.

It proposes a more integrated and people-centred system that would allow more older people to remain safely in their own homes for longer, backed by stronger home and community support.

That could have particular significance for kaumātua Māori, where ageing well can include maintaining connections with whānau, whenua, whakapapa and community.

The proposed reforms also tackle one of the most politically difficult questions in aged care — who pays.

The advisory group recommends changing how people contribute towards their care, with those who have greater financial resources potentially contributing more while retaining a taxpayer-funded safety net.

Contracting and regulation would also be overhauled in an effort to give providers greater certainty and make services easier for older people and their whānau to navigate.

The group argues there is an economic case for acting now rather than waiting for the system to deteriorate further.

Its modelling estimates the proposed reforms could deliver better health outcomes while avoiding more than $830 million a year in additional taxpayer costs by 2037/38.

That puts pressure on the Government to decide whether it is prepared to make substantial investments now to avoid considerably greater costs later.

For Martin and the residential care sector, funding will be a crucial part of what happens next.

Any expansion of beds requires providers to have confidence that facilities can remain financially viable and that there will be enough nurses, caregivers and support workers to staff them.

The workforce question is equally significant for Māori and Pacific communities, who make up an important part of the care and support workforce while also facing the challenge of ensuring culturally appropriate services are available for their own ageing populations.

The report does not represent Government policy yet. Ministers and officials will now consider its recommendations before decisions are made about implementation and funding.

But with the number of older New Zealanders continuing to grow, the window for avoiding more serious shortages is narrowing.

For the aged care sector, the argument is increasingly straightforward — investing in a system capable of looking after tomorrow’s kaumātua needs to begin today.

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Regional Development Minister Shane Jones is reflecting on the immense contribution of Māori education pioneer Te Kepa Takataka-o-Rangi Stirling, while also sharpening his political focus on jobs, investment and economic development across the regions.

Te Kepa Stirling died this month aged 88, leaving a legacy spanning Māori education, te reo Māori, tikanga and the advancement of generations of Māori.

His passing has prompted tributes across te ao Māori, recognising a lifetime devoted to ensuring Māori knowledge, identity and language remained at the heart of education.

For Jones, the loss is also a reminder of a generation of Māori leaders who fought to create opportunities for their people at a time when te reo and mātauranga Māori did not enjoy the institutional recognition they have today.

Stirling’s contribution extended beyond the classroom. His work belonged to a wider movement that strengthened Māori education and helped create pathways for generations of rangatahi to succeed without leaving their identity behind.

As Jones reflects on that legacy, his own attention as Regional Development Minister is increasingly centred on another challenge facing Māori communities — economic opportunity.

His portfolio has become one of the Government’s major vehicles for investment outside the country’s main metropolitan centres, with the Regional Infrastructure Fund supporting projects intended to generate employment, increase productivity and unlock private investment.

Recent announcements show the breadth of that agenda.

The Government has set aside $30 million from the Regional Infrastructure Fund for hydrogen projects, with Jones positioning emerging energy industries as an opportunity to create investment and jobs in the regions.

Another $15 million is supporting a Southland facility expected to produce critical minerals and green hydrogen using technology developed in New Zealand. The proposed plant combines energy development, advanced manufacturing and mineral processing.

Jones has also been pushing aquaculture as an economic opportunity.

The recently fast-tracked Hananui open-ocean salmon farm off Rakiura is projected to produce 14,400 tonnes of salmon annually when fully operational, generate more than $310 million in sales and create between 415 and 480 jobs. The project is being developed by Ngāi Tahu Seafood Resources.

In the Bay of Plenty, the Regional Infrastructure Fund is putting $12.5 million towards the Ōpōtiki Marina, infrastructure designed to support the expansion of the region’s aquaculture industry and complement previous investment involving central government, iwi and local government.

That intersection between Māori aspirations and economic development is becoming increasingly important.

Government investment announced this year has included Māori horticulture projects, infrastructure supporting Māori land productivity and funding intended to help Māori-owned businesses grow, create jobs and develop export opportunities.

For Jones, the emphasis is increasingly on turning natural resources, whenua, infrastructure and regional industries into long-term economic opportunities.

It reflects a longstanding argument that cultural advancement must be accompanied by a strong economic base if communities are to create sustainable futures for rangatahi.

The challenge is ensuring development creates durable Māori employment, strengthens regional communities and enables iwi and Māori businesses to participate as investors and owners rather than simply providing labour.

That makes the passing of Te Kepa Stirling particularly poignant.

His generation fought to strengthen the cultural and educational foundations upon which Māori could stand.

The challenge facing today’s political leadership is how to build economic strength on top of those foundations — creating the jobs, businesses, infrastructure and opportunities that allow the next generation to prosper while remaining connected to their whenua, reo and identity.

For Shane Jones, that increasingly means putting regional economic development at the centre of the political agenda.

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Kei te hinga haere ngā kamupene āporo i Te Matau-a-Māui, ā, e hia miriona tāra kua tau ki te rāngai nā ngā pēhitanga ōhanga o te wā.

E ai ki a Bayden Barber, kua pāngia hoki ngā kaiwhakatipu āporo Māori me ngā māra āporo o te iwi.

Hei tāna anō, ahakoa e kaha tonu ana te hiahia o te ao ki ngā āporo o Aotearoa, nā te pikinga o ngā utu, ngā pānga o huripari Kapareira me te ngaukino o utunui kua toromi ngā kaiwhakatipu me ngā kamupene whakaputa huarākau.

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Ko Rangituhi i Porirua kei te kōrerohia whānuitia e te marea nā te hiahia a ētahi kamupēne nō tāwāhi ki te whakatū i tētahi pāka whakangahau ki runga i te maunga arā tētahi adventure Park. I whakaae te Kaunihera o Porirua kia whakaroahia te riihi mō taua kaupapa.

I tuku tono a Ngāti Toarangatira kia whakahokia a Rangituhi ki a rātou, ā, kāore anō tērā take kia tau. Hei tā te heamana o te rūnanga, hai tā Callum Katene, e tautoko ana te iwi i ngā pakihi e whakatū kaupapa ana ki runga i ō rātou whenua, engari me whakamana te iwi nōnā te wāhi, me whakaute hoki te taiao whānui.

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