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01/11/2025

We couldn’t be more proud 🫶🏾

01/11/2025

Is the Prime Minister. Christopher Luxon, out of touch? That was our (Is the Prime Minister out of touch?), 443 of you commented while 26,930 people viewed the question. Of that number, 50% of respondents were women and 50% were men. Just over 30% were over the age of 65, while a large number of respondents were between 45 and 64. Waatea posts a different question of the day each day, with some eliciting thousands of responses. One comment: “One of his side hustles made him 600k tax free in 12 months. He's so far out of touch he's in orbit.” Referred to rates relief on his multi million dollar holiday home while another “Better question, was he ever in touch?”
Angela was blunt “A full stomach doesn't understand an empty one.” While Kele said “I think he needs to come live with me at my nans whare for the week I love my nans and said with respect it will be an eye opener for the gap within society just like my tooth lol”

More than 80% of respondents said he was out of touch.

01/11/2025

Stretching across 616 square kilometres, Lake Taupō is the largest lake in New Zealand – and the soul of the central North Island. Formed thousands of years ago by one of Earth’s most powerful volcanic eruptions, the lake now lies calm and clear, reflecting both mountain peaks and Māori legends that run deep beneath its surface. According to Māori legend, Lake Taupō was created by the demigod Ngātoroirangi, who hurled a totara tree into a barren dust bowl to bring life to the area. The west wind caused him to miss his mark, and the tree landed upside down, with its branches piercing the earth and causing fresh water to well up and form the lake. Other legends associate the lake with the taniwha Horomatangi or the journey of explorer Tia, who named the surrounding cliffs after his cloak.

https://waateanews.com/2025/11/01/taupo-maori-legends-that-run-deep-beneath-its-surface/

01/11/2025

Its one of Aoteroa's greatest books - "The Bone People" - Keri Hulme’s Booker Prize-winning Novel, The Bone People is a haunting, poetic exploration of trauma, identity, and connection set on the rugged West Coast of Aotearoa, blending Māori and Pākehā worldviews in a deeply original narrative.

Cathasaigh Ó Fiannacht | Writer, Director and Producer has reimagined it for a new audience!

https://waateanews.com/2025/10/29/cathasaigh-o-fiannacht-writer-director-and-producer/

31/10/2025

Welcome to Te Kaupapa - top of the news and current affairs korero from across the Motu bought to by Matthew Tukaki - this weekend we ask the question - "Should the PM have collected on a holiday home rates discount?"; is the CGT from the Labour Party a winner? What is happening with an attempted "coup" at Kelston Boys High, Is Winston a help or a hindrance? And do we really care about Luxon meeting Trump?

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