"THE FUEL TAX SHUFFLE: How Luxon and Willis Played Both Sides of the Pump While Māori Whānau Paid the Price" - 7 April 2026

National campaigned against the 12c fuel tax. Won the election. Scheduled the exact same 12c fuel tax. Then — with an election looming and the Iran war sending petrol to $3.42 a litre — heroically "shelved" it.

The relief package? A work-tested tax credit. If your parents are employed, $50 a week. If they're not — if they're on a benefit, disabled, a kaumātua raising mokopuna — your tamariki get nothing.

One in seven NZ kids in material hardship. Māori and Pacific kids at more than double Pākehā rates. And the government's big answer is workfare logic applied to a natural disaster.

Full essay at themaorigreenlantern.ma…. Read it. Share it. The whakapapa is damning.