Former rugby league international Tāwera Nikau has turned his trademark determination towards another battle — protecting Aotearoa’s threatened taonga species and restoring the whenua, wetlands and waterways they depend upon. Nikau joined Dale Husband on Radio Waatea following the Endangered Species National Hui in Kirikiriroa, where iwi, scientists, environmental advocates, rangatahi and community leaders gathered…

Green Party MP Teanau Tuiono says the crises confronting Aotearoa and the wider world cannot be treated as separate issues, linking poverty, conflict, Pacific security and climate change to a need for political leadership that protects people, whenua and future generations. The Green Party spokesperson for social development and children has been reflecting on a…

From missile tests and great-power rivalry in Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa to a landmark Waitangi Tribunal finding that the disability system has failed tangata whaikaha Māori, it has been another week where the serious business of politics collided with something rather less serious — Prime Minister Christopher Luxon apparently getting his Wahs and Tahs mixed up. Radio…