Aaron Smale: The major issue politicians will avoid in election year

It's one of the biggest economic and social issues facing NZ, but no one talks about it.

Aaron Smale: With Waitangi Day fast approaching, we need to talk about sovereignty

Whether it’s here, Greenland, Venezuela or Ukraine, sovereignty is under threat.

Aaron Smale: As Nicola Willis struggles to balance the books, the environment pays the price

The government's contempt for the environment inspires growth, but not as we know it.

Aaron Smale: My Christmas Wish

We need a new way of responding to people with trauma.

Aaron Smale: Nicola Willis shows “utter arrogance” by describing Treaty concepts as “nebulous”

Govt's contempt for the Treaty might come back to bite it on the international stage.

Aaron Smale: Labour needs to show some political courage

Te Pāti Māori is imploding, but Labour must work harder to attract Māori vote.

Aaron Smale: Not a patch on paedophiles

Why is the state still protecting abuse perpetrators through police inaction & tardiness?

Aaron Smale: Te reo rises again

Despite historical violence against te reo speakers, the language is reviving.

Aaron Smale: Scrapping NCEA won’t solve underlying problems faced by Māori students

Abysmal results in education stats are more significant to the economy than the OCR.

Aaron Smale: Bill, Will and talkback trash

What the racists need to consider before they talk about Shakespeare.

Aaron Smale: Why politicians don’t take the Māori vote seriously

By-election raises the question whether Māori would be better served on the general roll.

Aaron Smale: Jacinda Ardern’s second term as PM was an opportunity lost

Arden's failure to address the problem of child poverty was perhaps her greatest failure.

Aaron Smale: Shane Jones's achievements don’t match his rhetoric

Shane Jones believes he’s going to force Ngāpuhi into settling their treaty claims.

Aaron Smale: When is it an appropriate time to protest? Why not a music awards ceremony?

Songwriting rangatira, Don McGlashan, stands up to Chris Bishop.

Aaron Smale: Jail for a haka? The arrogance of ignorance in Parliament

Act MP Parmjeet Parmar’s prison question wasn’t innocent. It was historical amnesia.

A government crusade against data, equity and basic fairness

The real Budget balance sheet: Costing lives and cutting rights.

All haka, no mahi: Aaron Smale on why Te Pāti Māori risks being all song and dance

You could argue Te Pāti Māori won that battle but is losing the war.

Aaron Smale: Blind to our history

When it’s not fashionable to explicitly practise racism, just deny it exists or ever did.

Aaron Smale: Those who dismiss accusations of intimidation by police are not listening

Entitled ignorance and missed opportunities shown by those who berate Tamatha Paul.

Aaron Smale: Winston Peters’ talents mask hollow brittleness, which has hindered his ability to achieve anything notable

Peters has made his career pretending to fight division while carefully cultivating it.

Aaron Smale: PM’s disastrous handling of Treaty Principles Bill might yet be his undoing

The Treaty Principles Bill exposes a lacking in leadership.

Aaron Smale: We can’t afford to fail Māori children

The need to improve Māori educational outcomes is even more vital given demographic trends

Aaron Smale: Memo to Wellington – our greatest economic asset and potential is Māori and Polynesian kids

Pākehā boomers and successive govts are ignoring Māori and Polynesian kids at their peril.

Privilege & principles: Aaron Smale on what the Treaty Bill is really about

Is the bill a distraction from the government's real aim of favouring big business?

A whakapapa of trauma: Aaron Smale on what we have yet to learn about abuse in state care

Ghosts of war and the 28th Māori Battalion come calling as government apology takes place.