Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: Labour promised this budget would be 'transformational', unfortunately this is only true if you define 'transformational' as well as Treasury define 'hack'..Read more

WILLIE JACKSON: We have a violent crime wave in our community and it is time we were honest about it..Read more

WILLIE JACKSON: What happened this week with Mike King quitting the suicide-prevention panel goes beyond politics and demands our focus as a country and as a community..Read more

WILLIE JACKSON: Some of the ridiculous things claimed by the mainstream media last week over the Labour's Party list was really disappointing.Read more

WILLIE JACKSON OPINION: What is going on with our water?.Read more

WILLIE JACKSON: Lot of talk this week that we need to raise the age of retirement to 67..Read more

WILLIE JACKSON: Congratulations to Race Relations commissioner Dame Susan Devoy for her courageous stand challenging the government to hold an independent inquiry into the abuse of children held in care by the state..Read more

WILLIE JACKSON OPINION: While watching the fabulous waiata and haka at Te Matatini, I thought about the vicious debate over “what’s Kaupapa Māori?” that took place last week..Read more

PAUL MOON: It was all going so well. The Maori Party looked revitalised, and heading into election year could claim successes in its flagship Whanau Ora programme, as well as being part of a government that has concluded some of the most important Treaty settlements in a generation..Read more

WILLIE JACKSON: The Electoral Commission needs to wake up..Read more

WILLIE JACKSON OPINION: “He wasn’t just NZ class, he was world class”, that’s what one of this country’s finest singers Frankie Stevens said about Bunny Walters after his death last week..Read more

WILLIE JACKSON OPINION: What a week in politics, it seems beyond belief that we now have a new Prime Minister, the John Key resignation caught everyone by surprise, so much so that it still doesn’t quite make sense for me..Read more

WILLIE JACKSON OPINION: “A great and charismatic leader”, was how former MP Donna Awatere Huata described the Cuban legendary president Fidel Castro.Read more

Willie Jackson: It’s wonderful when you see our people supporting indigenous people around the world. .Read more

WILLIE JACKSON:Good on Labour MP Louisa Wall for putting up her take on the euthanasia bill to Parliament’s Health Select Committee..Read more

WILLIE JACKSON: You’re a racist, you’re a racist, that’s what President-elect Donald Trump said Hillary Clinton supporters were calling him at every opportunity. Add the terms misogynist, sexist, pig, dog and con-artist which is what movie star Robert De Niro called him and you have to wonder how Trump won?.Read more

WILLIE JACKSON: Are we a harsh country? That’s what we are asking after the Parole Board’s decision not to release Vicki Letele a convicted fraudster who is dying in prison..Read more

WILLIE JACKSON: I couldn’t believe it when it was revealed that the police would be charging Inspector Huri Dennis with kidnapping..Read more

WILLIE JACKSON : But jailing Love is one step too far. Justice Lang said for more than 40 years Love had devoted himself selflessly to Maori development and said he was an inspirational leader in Maoridom.Read more

Willie Jackson: Winston Peter’s apparently comes to Parliament to “goof around”. Well, that’s if you believe the criticism that has gone in his direction over the past week from Treaty negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson, Leader of the House Gerry Brownlee, and Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox..Read more

WILLIE JACKSON: The Kermadec Sanctuary deal is turning into a potential game changer for the Government..Read more

Willie Jackson: Since the end of last year I have been very critical of Radio New Zealand and their commitment to Maori programmes..Read more

WILLIE JACKSON: The King’s speech is an Oscar winning Hollywood movie..Read more

WILLIE JACKSON: The race for the Auckland mayoralty and also council seats are heating up as the October polling day draws nearer and major political parties start infiltrating their members to these boards..Read more

WILLIE JACKSON: I have just finished staying eight days and nights in Rio De Janeiro and I can confirm that I am still alive!  Which might surprise some people given the terrible publicity that we have seen from the media here and internationally.  I can also confirm that I never saw or felt a mosquito, didn’t get mugged, maimed or shot at, drank the water, used the public toilets, walked down lots of side streets and talked to plenty of strangers.
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