As the M\u0101ori proverb goes, “ko te kai \u0101 te rangatira he k\u014drero” (the food of leaders is talk), and the seven main political parties have selected representatives to put on a spread for voters in TVNZ\u2019s Kaupapa M\u0101ori Debate tonight.<\/p>\n
It will be a full house with Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson, NZ First MP Shane Jones, Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori co-leader Rawiri Waititi, ACT deputy leader Nicole McKee, National MP Tama Potaka, Labour MP Willie Jackson, and Opportunity Party\u2019s Christchurch candidate Eden Skipper set to take part.<\/p>\n
Te Karere presenter Scotty Morrison and 1News M\u0101ori Affairs Correspondent Te Aniwa Hurihanganui will co-host the debate from 7.30pm on TVNZ 1, TVNZ+<\/a> and 1News.co.nz. <\/p>\n Voters want to see more action to improve M\u0101ori health. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n With seven politicians and only an hour to grill them, Morrison said there won\u2019t be much “fluffing around”.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re really going to drill deep into kaupapa M\u0101ori that are important to M\u0101ori voters according to current polling of them.\u201d<\/p>\n The smallest M\u0101ori electorate is grappling with a disproportionately sized cost of living crisis. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n It should make for “enlightening” viewing for non-M\u0101ori too, providing insights into the importance of kaupapa M\u0101ori and how it impacts the political landscape of Aotearoa as a country, Morrison said.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019ll be a fascinating watch for those people and, hopefully, something that, not only will it move fast and have good momentum and good energy, but it will be a vehicle for people to be able to sit in the safety of their homes and engage with what M\u0101ori people are thinking and what is concerning to M\u0101ori people.\u201d<\/p>\n As the deadline to enrol to vote looms at midnight, young M\u0101ori in the Hauraki-Waikato electorate are urging their peers to take their protest cries to the ballot box. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n Topics of discussion will include Te Triti o Waitangi, the cost of living, the environment, jobs, and te reo M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n The debate is the third of four TVNZ will screen before the election, and part of 1News’ extensive campaign coverage<\/a>, including the interactive Vote Compass<\/a> tool which launched this month.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, the TVNZ Multi-Party Debate<\/a> had leaders of the five potential kingmaker parties square off<\/a> over major election issues. The TVNZ Leaders Debate<\/a> brought National leader Christopher Luxon and Labour leader Chris Hipkins to clash over trustworthiness, racism and the cost of living.<\/p>\n Chronic homelessness has emerged as a major focal point. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n The final debate \u2013 intended as a second Leaders Debate, but declined by Luxon \u2013 is now the Q+A People’s Debate to be held on November 5. <\/p>\n It will put voters’ questions to every party that qualifies under TVNZ’s debate criteria, including National and Labour. Jack Tame will moderate. You can put forward your questions by filling in a short form here<\/a>.<\/p>\n All debates screen on 1News.co.nz, TVNZ+, and TVNZ 1 with live updates of the debates on the 1News app<\/a> and website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Whatitiri Te Wake of Te Ao M\u0101ori and Mani Dunlop of The Post speak to Breakfast about the poll results. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the M\u0101ori proverb goes, “ko te kai \u0101 te rangatira he k\u014drero” (the food of leaders is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,4432,43,135,40,38,41,39,10872,270122],"class_list":["post-644891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-maori-issues","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-torangapu","tag-vote-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}