“Te Tiriti o Waitangi is not an endpoint. Nor is a relationship with the government necessarily the overall aim for Māori.” — Tā Mason Durie. Keep Reading

Politicians have long been loath to introduce reforms around the middle voter's drug of choice, writes Q+A presenter Jack Tame. Keep Reading

Research consistently shows access to early childhood education can effect literacy, schooling and life in general. Its relative absence in a budget supposedly focused on education is baffling. Keep Reading

“Suppressing and belittling the use of Māori language . . . appears to be part of a small-minded and ultimately futile effort at returning our country to the state of race relations in the blandly monocultural 1950s.” — Mark Derby. Keep Reading

Willie Jackson is a Labour list MP and chairman of Labour’s Māori caucus. OPINION Finance Minister Nicola Willis has gone back to the Ruth Richardson... Keep Reading

There’s always more to come out in the wash after Budget Day and so it was with Nicola Willis’ tax cuts, writes Tova O’Brien. Keep Reading

Will the oil and gas ban reversal bring much-needed international investment , or just stymy efforts to combat climate change? Keep Reading