NZ First is campaigning for a referendum on the future of the Māori seats, seeking their abolition. Winston Peters argues the seats are no longer relevant

Our short film's swooping into this year’s Māoriland! My brother and I are gonna road trip it down to Ōtaki for this Indigenous film rave. The Charm of the Magpies is playing in the late Friday night section Ti Whatiwha te Pō, which is such a great placement. #mff2026

Māori advocates warn the Government’s RMA overhaul risks breaching Te Tiriti, stripping Treaty protections and causing long-term damage to environmental and Māori participation rig

“Coerced and forced sterilization is considered a crime against humanity under international law and also constituting genocide... over 70,000 Native American women and women of color were forcibly sterilized just in the ’70s alone, when these eugenics laws were on the books.”

I wrote about Dunedin, and meat, and men. newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/11/d...

Attempts to cancel authors. Attempts to cancel books. Attempts to cancel writers festivals. Attempts to cancel arts grants. Have these whingers tried more fibre in their diets? Could improve their outlook on life

Apparently someone/group is trying to get my next book cancelled. And someone else has written a pearl-clutching article about this demand to cancel my book. This novel was written to honour members of the Stolen Generations (ie Aboriginal children who were forcibly removed under racist policies) 🤷🏽‍♀️

Book now! Free event in Adelaide events.humanitix.com/rivers-of-re...

Proud to announce bookings (free) are open for Rivers of Reason: Blak & Arab Writers in Conversation. Monday 2 March 2026, 2.30 - 7.30 in town hall, Tarntanya (Adelaide). As part of Constellations writers festival. Info about program & speakers on booking page > events.humanitix.com/rivers-of-re...

totally the wrong platform for this but i do not care northandsouth.co.nz/2021/01/21/m...

My latest essay for HCN critically interrogates the phrase "time immemorial," which Indigenous affairs reporters like me sometimes overuse. www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...

Adelaide Festival Board & Premier Peter Malinauskas made a race-based consience choice by erasuring the 10,000+ First Nations people who were massacred by British soliders, Aust police & settlers during 1788 to 1930. Some single massacres resulted in 100s of deaths. australian.museum/learn/first-...

Spotted in East Tāmaki, #SouthAuckland, in the middle of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s Botany electorate. #FTP #RealTalk #OneTermGovt #Aotearoa

My reply to the Adelaide Festival Board's email. I'll add the text in a thread. In no way do I believe this ill-conceived decision has come from the Adelaide Writers Week team. Always was always will be / From the river to the sea ✊🏾

I will be withdrawing from two panels I was to chair at Adelaide Writers Week 2026. I stand in solidarity with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, and other Palestinian Australian writers. I urge all writers to do the same. Watch out for statements from SA mob. www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

...To draw attention to the grievance, the band Papa (based out of Ngāti Whātua's Orakei Pā) changed their name to “Papa Band Of The Land”. Papa included like-minded musicians, including Dilworth Karaka (Herbs), Tama Renata and Bruno Berens. 2/2 nzhistory.govt.nz/occupation-o...

On this day in 1977, the Bastion Point occupation began. In 1976, the NZ Government announced that a 60-acre section of “public” land at Ōrākei was to be sold to the highest bidder. Named Bastion Point by cartographers, Ngāti Whātua knew it as Takaparawha... 1/2 www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/papa

I don't think you should have to be back at work in early January. Unless you're some fucking loser who said the country should only have three days off at Christmas and there's some kind of international crisis going on

Make Joe Daymond an ambassador. 😤

Hard to know who to trust for information anymore.

I'd follow militant Indigenous aunties into Hell.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Literally 'The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point' meme.

I'm over this year. 😑

There's your Nobel Peace Prize winner, btw. Hats off to everyone involved. Great job.

Drums drown out the mind Orders march past our reason Graves learn nothing new

Fuck that. Let’s just sauté them. 🙄

USA abducted the president and his wife?? Fucking marauding pirates

Sometimes I doubt your commitment to the FIFA Peace Prize. 😑

fuck trump, fuck his enablers, fuck anyone who keeps supporting him

Man FUCK America.

All Colonies Are Bastards.

Plenty of Maaori Mamdani's tbh but this country is too racist for that convo.

SOFT LIFE mini banner (2026)

Radical left huh? *tosses you a skateboard* prove it

With Bahram Beizai's death, Iranian cinema is orphaned - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bahram-beizais-death-iranian-cinema-orphaned

Road tripping: How many of these places have you visited? "Location, location, location – the image on the cover of a record can set the mood of the music, and create a sense of place. This map of the locations where New Zealand album covers were shot... 1/2 www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/alb...

Happy birthday to Grandmaster Flash youtu.be/BvlmrcxMKF4

That dork Andrew Paul Wood has blocked me on all of my accounts on here and I've never interacted with him here or on twits.

Life's too short to put up with centrists.

day one in mamdani’s new york

Please tell me this isn't why the Turtles couldn't make Mamdani's inauguration?!?!?!?!

I didn't think Vanilla Ice could get any more wack yet here we are.

I’ve been flying the Morning Star flag since 1 December for a #FreeWestPapua but tonight we returned to flying the Tino Rangatiratanga flag for a liberated and free Aotearoa in 2026. Feels good to see this small expression of solidarity with Tangata Whenua alive in the elements every day.

dub o clock

Mārie Kondo was on to something.

The "backbone of the NZ economy" is stolen Maaori land.