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The numbers coming out of the Papatoetoe cluster are confusing..Read more
25 Feb 2021 09:26
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The cluster associated with LSG Sky Chefs and Papatoetoe High School was detected on Sunday 14 February. The government responded immediately placing Auckland on Alert Level 3 and, because two cases had travelled through the Taranaki and Waikato, ordered the rest of New Zealand tot Alert Level 2..Read more
20 Feb 2021 08:39
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Labour’s longest-serving Māori MP was never the best Minister of Māori Development. In the most elegant of demotions after the last election, she was elevated to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Local Government..Read more
12 Feb 2021 08:30
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Dr Rawiri Taonui Covid Maori | The Mystery of the Locations of Interest Group and White Waitangi Day
As predicted in the Waatea News column 29 January, yesterday saw a 4th case of the South African B1351 strain..Read more
05 Feb 2021 16:33
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Precautionary Approach.Read more
02 Feb 2021 09:09
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The Northland woman who has tested positive for the B1351 South African variant arrived in New Zealand from London on 30 December..Read more
29 Jan 2021 17:24
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The Northland Case. The Northland woman who tested positive for the B1351 South African variant arrived from London on 30 December..Read more
28 Jan 2021 08:33
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Dr Rawiri Taonui: The first six months of the New Year will decide the success of New Zealand’s defence against the Covid-19 Pandemic. New Zealand has the lowest case numbers, cases per capita millions, total deaths, and deaths per capita millions of all European OECD countries..Read more
13 Jan 2021 15:52
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Dr Rawiri Taonui | Opinion: When Te Ahiwaru-Ngāti Māhuta made their stand behind flimsy palisades of pallets and nylon at Ihumātao few predicted they would win against conglomerate Fletcher Building..Read more
28 Dec 2020 22:51
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Opinion: In January this year, Duncan Garner said that he had it on “good authority” that a deal would be done on Ihumātao by Waitangi Day..Read more
17 Dec 2020 08:03
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By the end of this year, Covid-19 will be the largest pandemic in human history. Today the world total passed 60 million cases with 1.4 million deaths. On the current 7-day trend there will be 82 million cases and 1.8 million deaths before the end of the year..Read more
25 Nov 2020 23:30
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Following the signoff of the Labour-Greens cooperation agreement, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will announce her new cabinet line-up tomorrow..Read more
01 Nov 2020 22:30
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An overwhelming majority of 85% of Green Party members have agreed to align with Labour..Read more
01 Nov 2020 19:30
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Dr Rawiri Taonui: Labour has stormed into government with a 29-seat triumph over National in the third-largest margin by any political party since the Liberals defeated all others with a 36-seat majority in 1905..Read more
27 Oct 2020 09:33
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Election 2020 has seen the strongest Kaupapa Māori campaigns since Tariana Turia resigned from the Labour Party, formed the Māori Party and won the 2004 Te Tai Hauāuru by-election..Read more
16 Oct 2020 19:39
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Kia ora tātou. With the last Māori Television - Curia Research poll in and campaigns racing toward their zenith, the Māori Party may be on course to win one of the Māori electorates..Read more
14 Oct 2020 23:00
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The introduction of MMP (Mixed Member Proportional) has seen ‘More Māori in Parliament’ from seven Māori MPs in the last pre-MMP election in 1993 to a record high of 29 Māori MPs comprising 24.1% of our current 121-member Parliament spread across five parties, Labour (13), National (8), New Zealand First (6), the Greens (1) and Advance New Zealand (1)..Read more
09 Oct 2020 19:30
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Dr Rawiri Taonui: This column tracks the performance of Labour Party Leader Jacinda Ardern and National Party Leader Judith Collins as preferred Prime Minister in the first two leaders debates and the last five 1News-Colmar Brunton (3) and Newshub-Reid (2) polls back to July..Read more
03 Oct 2020 21:30
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Dr Rawiri Taonui: This column tracks the electoral trend in the last five 1News-Colmar Brunton (3) and Newshub-Reid (2) polls dating back to July..Read more
02 Oct 2020 12:30
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Dr Rawiri Taonui: Yesterday morning the official total of reported deaths passed 1 million and total reported cases passed 33 million..Read more
30 Sep 2020 10:45
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Dr Rawiri Taonui: On 8 September modelling by this researcher showed that if the government did not reduce the number of arrivals into New Zealand there would be another breach at the border or in Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) leading to a further Covid-19 outbreak in October or November. Since then, there have been two such breaches on 13 and 19 September..Read more
27 Sep 2020 10:30
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Dr Rawiri Taonui: Colmar-Brunton released the full report for their September TVNZ poll last night. The outcome of Election 2020 might be more precariously balanced than pundits appreciate..Read more
26 Sep 2020 20:00
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Dr Rawiri Taonui: Two days ago, the official number of Covid-19 cases worldwide passed 30 million. The last 10 million came in 38 days over four times faster than the 154 days for the first 10 million..Read more
19 Sep 2020 20:00
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Dr Rawiri Taonui: Unfortunately, the Ministry of Health has reported a third death in the Māori-Pacific Cluster in Auckland. He was Māori, aged in his 50s and the brother of the first man to die in this outbreak also in his 50s..Read more
16 Sep 2020 21:12
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Dr Rawiri Taonui: Breaches of our border and Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) protocols will lead to further outbreaks in the community if we do not cap the number of the arrivals coming across the border..Read more
14 Sep 2020 20:42
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