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Health advocate and Te Kōhao Health Chair Lady Tureiti Moxon is raising fundamental questions about the future of Crown accountability as debate continues over the role and powers of the Waitangi Tribunal.

The Government began a review of the Treaty of Waitangi Act in 2025, saying it wanted to refocus the scope, purpose and nature of Tribunal inquiries and examine its jurisdiction and management of claims. The Government has said the review is intended to ensure the Tribunal remains effective and fit for purpose.

Lady Moxon says proposals to abolish the Tribunal or significantly restrict its ability to investigate Crown conduct would raise a much bigger constitutional question — who independently holds the Crown to account when Māori believe government decisions breach Te Tiriti o Waitangi?

The debate comes as the Government separately moves to change Treaty references across legislation. In May, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith announced decisions affecting 19 laws, including repealing seven Treaty-principles references and changing others, with consultation with iwi and a select committee process to follow.

For Lady Moxon, the issue goes beyond the future of one institution and reaches into the relationship between kāwanatanga and tino rangatiratanga, the ability of Māori to challenge Crown actions, and the mechanisms available to independently examine whether the Crown is meeting its Te Tiriti responsibilities.

Lady Moxon joins Radio Waatea to discuss what weakening or removing the Tribunal could mean for Māori, Crown accountability and the future of the Te Tiriti relationship.

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Emergency departments across Aotearoa are facing unprecedented pressure as record demand, increasingly complex patient needs and limited hospital capacity stretch frontline services.

Dr Michael Connelly, Aotearoa New Zealand National Council Chair for the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, joins Radio Waatea following a new report examining the growing pressures facing emergency departments.

The report warns the challenge is not simply the number of people arriving at emergency departments, but the increasing complexity of their health needs and difficulties moving patients from emergency care into already stretched hospital wards.

When hospitals operate close to capacity, patients can spend longer waiting in emergency departments for beds, creating flow-on pressure for clinicians, ambulance services and people arriving for urgent treatment.

ACEM says addressing emergency department pressure requires a whole-of-hospital and wider health-system response rather than expecting emergency departments alone to absorb continually increasing demand.

Dr Connelly joins Radio Waatea to unpack what is happening on the frontline, what the pressures mean for patients and health workers, and what needs to change to ensure emergency care remains accessible when people need it most.

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Nearly 2,000 young kauri have been planted across five sites in the Waitākere Ranges, marking a major milestone in the long-term effort to restore and protect one of Aotearoa’s most treasured taonga species.

The seedlings have come full circle. They were propagated from seeds collected from healthy kauri in the Waitākere Ranges, nurtured at a Rotorua nursery and have now returned to their ancestral whenua in Te Wao Nui o Tiriwā.

The planting is part of Te Kāwai Kauri, bringing together mana whenua Te Kawerau ā Maki, Auckland Council and scientific partners to protect the whakapapa and future of Waitākere kauri.

For Te Kawerau ā Maki, the kaupapa is about much more than planting trees. Kauri are regarded as rangatira and living tūpuna, with their wellbeing inseparable from the health and mauri of the ngahere.

The project is particularly significant as kauri dieback remains a major threat. There is currently no known cure, meaning preventing the movement of contaminated soil, protecting healthy trees and continuing research remain critical.

Te Kawerau ā Maki Chief Executive Edward Ashby joins Radio Waatea to discuss bringing these young kauri home, the importance of kaitiakitanga and the hope that some could eventually become the thousand-year-old giants of tomorrow.

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E rere ana te tai o te aroha mai i ngā kaiarataki, ngā whānau, ngā rōpū me ngā hapū, i te rironga atu o Adrian Rūrawhe, kua mate nei.

Ko ia te Māngai o mua i te Pāremata, ā, ko ia hoki te Mema Pāremata mō Te Tai Hauāuru.

Hei tā te Kaiarataki takirua o te Pāti Kākāriki, a Marama Davidson, mō te manaaki i te wairua o te tangata. Kāore he pāinga i a ia, ā, i tū ia hei pouāio mō ngā Mema Pāremata whānui, ahakoa te pāti.

E whai ake nei ko te whānuitanga o āna kōrero.

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I ngā kamepeina kōwhiringa pōti e haere ana huri taiāwhio i te motu,

I kōrero mātou ki a Kyla Campbell-Kamariera, kaitono rārangi mō Te Pāti o Te Tai Tokerau.

Hei tā Kyla, ko te tū a te pāti ki te Pāremata, he whakaū i te tino rangatiratanga o Te Tai Tokerau.

Ahakoa ko ngā Mema Pāremata nō ngā rōpū ā-motu e tū ana hei māngai mō ō rātou rohe pōti, he wāhanga anō rātou nō ngā rōpū e whai kaupapa ana mō te motu whānui.

Engari, mō tētahi pāti ā-rohe, ko tōna aronga matua ko te oranga me te anamata o tōna rohe.

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E ai ki a Marama Davidson, kua kite ia i te tāmate haeretanga o whakapono a te motu ki te Kāwanatanga i roto i ngā tau ka hipa, ā, hai tāna anō, nā ngā awenga a ngā kāporeihana i ngā take tōrangapū tētahi o ngā take i pērā ai.

E hiahia ana te Rōpū Kākāriki ki te whakawhāiti i te rahinga o te pūtea koha ka tau atu ki ngā rōpū tōrangapū, ā, ko te $30,000 te tōnuitanga o te pūtea ka whakaaehia e te pire nei.

Mā ēnei whakarerekētanga e mōhio ai te motu ko wai mā ngā kaiwhakaawe, he aha hoki tā rātou e hiahia nei ki te tautoko.

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Ko Raniera McGrath te Poutaki hou kua kopoua ki te ārahi i Te Pae Motuhake o Te Tai Tokerau i Te Mātāwai, arā, te rōpū e mahi ana ki te whakapakari i te reo Māori puta noa i Te Tai Tokerau.

Inā te nui o ngā kaupapa i kōkirihia e ia i ngā tau ki mohoa mai i ngā wānanga tāmoko, whakairo, karanga, whaikōrero me te reo Māori. Ko tētahi o āna kaupapa hou ko te wānanga karanga me te whaikōrero i tū i Te Rarawa i ngā wiki tata nei.

Hei tāna ko te mahinga matua ko te poipoi i te tuakiri o te tangata kia tū maia ia i tēnei ao hurihuri.

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Mō ngā whānau kāore anō kia rēhita ki te pōti

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E ai ki a Hone Matthews o te kaitiaki take kōwhiri, ka taea tonu te rēhita tae atu ki te 25 o Oketopa, engari me tuku pōti motuhake.

Ki te kore koe e rēhita hei te 25 o Oketopa, kāore e taea te pōti i tēnei kōwhiringa ā-motu!!

Ka tūwhera ana te pōti tōmua hei te 26 o Oketopa, ā, ka kōpani te wāhi ki ngā mahi tuku pōti ā te 9 karaka i te pō hai te 7 o Noema.

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I oti i te Taraipiunara o Waitangi ngā mahi arotake i te whakakorenga o Te Aka Whai Ora, arā, te manatū hauora Māori.

Hei tā te Taraipiunara, kāore he mahere a te Kāwanatanga hei whakakapi i ngā mahi a Te Aka Whai Ora, hei whakakapi hoki i ngā āputa hauora Māori, i mua i tana whakakorenga.

I puta te tūtohu a te Taraipiunara kia whakaaro anō te Kāwanatanga ki te whakatū i tētahi anō manatū hauora Māori.

I kōrero mātou ki a Tākuta Rawiri Jansen, te Kaihautū Hauora Matua o mua o Te Aka Whai Ora, i mua i te whakaputanga o te pūrongo nei. Hei tāna, i mōhio pū ia ki ēnei meka i te wā i whakatau ai te Kāwanatanga ki te whakamoe i Te Aka Whai Ora.

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Matt Tukaki & Matt Roskruge –

Treasury’s pre-election opening of the books shows a stronger outlook for Government finances, but a less convincing improvement for households.

The Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update, or PREFU, sets out Treasury’s forecasts for the economy and Crown finances under current government policies. It gives voters a common starting point for assessing election promises.

Compared with May’s Budget, Treasury now forecasts a deficit of $6.8 billion this financial year, down from $11.4 billion. The return to surplus remains on track for 2028/29, with a larger buffer than previously forecast. Government debt is also expected to peak lower.

Stronger tax revenue is the main reason. Business-tax results have exceeded expectations, while higher prices increase the dollar value of incomes, spending and profits, lifting the tax take.

Finance Minister Nicola Willis presented the figures as evidence that the Government’s approach is working. Treasury’s assessment is more qualified: the underlying economic outlook is little changed, and significant risks remain.

For whānau Māori, the labour market is a crucial test. National unemployment is forecast to reach 5.2 percent next June, slightly higher than Treasury expected at Budget time. A recovery that takes longer to generate jobs offers limited reassurance to people seeking work, including rangatahi entering the workforce.

Household costs remain another pressure. Inflation is expected to ease, but that generally means prices rise more slowly, not that earlier increases are reversed.

Higher inflation also creates a difficult trade-off for public services. It boosts government revenue, but increases the cost of delivering healthcare, education and other services within constrained budgets.

Persistent high oil prices could further delay recovery and keep pressure on household finances.

The improved books are welcome. For whānau, however, the meaningful test will be secure work, incomes that stretch further, and services available when they need them.

Author: Professor Matt Roskruge

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