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Waitangi Day, policies for Māori, and secret mineral trading talks w/ the Labour Party’s Shanan Halbert: 5th February, 2026

Waitangi Day tomorrow will see political parties and their leaders from across parliament gathering to celebrate the anniversary of Aotearoa’s founding document. As this year is an election year, party leaders are keen to announce policies and set themselves apart from their political opponents. 

In the leadup to Waitangi Day, the government has been met with accusations of participating in secret mineral trading talks with the United States. The talks follow the US announcing a proposed mineral trading bloc to reduce reliance on China. The government has been criticised for engaging in such talks without public knowledge, and for considering increasing mining despite the significant environmental impact. 

For our weekly catchup with the Labour Party’s Shanan Halbert, News and Editorial director Castor asked about Waitangi Day, Labour’s policies for Māori this election, and the party’s take on secret mining discussions.

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Weekly Catchup w/ The Green Party's Ricardo Menéndez March: 11 Feb, 2026

This week, sewage swept onto the beaches of Wellington and Christchurch as the water management systems failed in both cities.

At the same time the National Party floated their idea for a cap on council rates, the same rates that ostensibly fund those water managements systems.

Last week we also saw the release of a draft decision to decline sea bed mining in the Taranaki bite, a move that had been pushed for by the Green Party.

For this weeks catch up with the Green Party Wire host Manny spoke to MP Ricardo Menéndez March over the rates caps, the infrastructure crisis facing the councils and the draft decision to decline the sea bed mining project in Taranaki.

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Live in the Lounge w/ Earth Tongue: 11th February, 2026

Gussie Larkin and Ezra Simons of Earth Tongue play a live set in the bFM lounge ahead of releasing their third LP together Dungeon Vision this Friday!

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Blanket Games w/ Fiona Connor, alongside Bailey Connolly: 13th of February, 2026.

Fiona Connor is an Aotearoa born artist currently based in LA. Connor has an expansive sculptural practice in which she produces site specific installations, that really play with the spaces inherent architecture. Developing this conceptually enriched sculptural language that seeks to shift objects, and their environments through this process of reproduction.

Her current show on at Coastal Signs, Blanket Games includes 5 large-scale drawings of segments of hurricane fencing. In which Connor utilises an alternative method of drawing, monoprinting. A method that demands a different kind of connection. Allowing her to not only record the object of the fence itself, but also of her own body's movements during the making of the work. Smudges, and scuffs, made from the weight of her body while tracing the fence intertwining within the woven marks of the lattice fence. Creating a beautiful frottage of the body, and it’s record of interaction.

Alongside her individual practice, Connor is passionate about creating, and being amongst artist run initiatives. So in light of Connor's collaborative projects Maya also spoke to her and Bailey Connelly about their latest artist run collective, Polyhymnia.

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Your Gig Is Showing w/ Liam Hansen: February 14, 2026

Liam Hansen (Misheard presents) is in the studio with a rundown on the artists appearing at Queer Autumn 2, a now annual event celebrating "the intersections between alternative music and the rainbow/takatāpui community of Aotearoa. Queer Autumn returns to Whammy Bar on Sunday, the 22nd of February. 

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Moa Point failure, Salvation Army State of the Nation report, and a Māori seats referendum? w/ National MP Ryan Hamilton: 17 February 2026

In Wellington, failure at the Moa Point wastewater treatment plant has led to millions of liters of wastewater being sent into the Cook Strait. 

The incident has shed light on what scientific experts have been saying for years — that water infrastructure in New Zealand is out of date and incapable of handling the growing effect of climate challenges without deeper investment.

The Salvation Army released their State of the Nation report which has found an increase in issues across the justice system, child welfare, and poverty contributing to declining social equality in Aotearoa.

As well, NZ First leader Winston Peters is campaigning on a referendum on Māori seats in New Zealand.

Wire Host Sara spoke to National MP Ryan Hamilton about all of these topics, starting with Moa Point. 

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Weekly Catchup w/ The Green Party's Ricardo Menéndez March: 18 Feb, 2026

With the long-delayed opening of the city rail link due to later this year, and the government re-launching their roads of national significance, eyes have turned to a perennial problem. Why do we spend more on building than any other OECD nation yet receive far less bang for buck? 

To solve these problems, the government asked the Infrastructure Commission to write a plan that could be the basis for a bipartisan infrastructure pipeline, the National Infrastructure Plan, to give us steady development and perspective on our infrastructure needs and issues.

And this week, the Employment Relations Amendment bill under ACT MP Brooke Van Veldon has reached its final reading before being put into law. It is set to overhaul our employment system, supporters say it will make it easier for contractors to get the arrangements that they want and increase work, critics say it will push workers into more precarious positions with less protections from exploitation.

For this weeks catch up with the Green Party I spoke to MP Ricardo Menéndez March about the National Infrastructure Plan and Employment Relations Amendment Bill.

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Portal w/ Millie Dunstall, Emma Stretch and Kyung Baro: 13th of February, 2026.

Portal is a new group exhibition showing at The Kit, which brings together 17 artists who have volunteered at Artspace Aotearoa over the past two years. The show circulates this idea of revisitation, with each artist returning to a past artwork and re-developing it within this space of collective renewal and shared experiences. Highlighting the circulate process of artists, how this act of revisiting, re-developing, and responding come together to produce this regenerative cycle of work. Each cycle gathering new experiences, and connections that fuel the next circulation of work to come.

Maya caught up with Curator of the show Millie Dunstall, who is also an participating artist within the exhibnition. She also caught up with two of the artists included within the show, Emma Stretch and Kyung Baro. 

Portal includes works by: Frankie Ayers, Kyung Baro, Stella Barry, Kerin Casey, Millie Dunstall, Sinag Fernadez, Inga Fillery, Neve Gresswell, Ziggy Humberstone, Zach muir, Paige Nebbeling, Emma Savage, Rebekah Sohn, Jude Stevens, Emma Stretch, Laura Watson, Ivy Weir.

 

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Dreaming From Afar w/Gian Manik: 20th of February, 2026.

Dreaming From Afar is a new group exhibition showing at Gus Fisher which brings together the practices of Gian Manik, Brunelle Dias Primbs, and Tyrone Te Waa. The show circulates the complexities of history, and nostalgia through this painterly language that seeks to morph the physical with the imagined. 

Gian Manik is a Naarm-based painter, who produces mesmerising works that play with ​​various tropes preserved within the historical painting genres of still life, landscape, and portraiture. Within Dreaming From Afar Manik showcases a beautiful body of paintings that includes various methods of painterly application. Intimate and finely rendered works on oil on canvas, as well as these lively frescos that become one with the gallery space itself. 

The works themselves bring together Manik's fascination with historical painting, and old masters, alongside his research and exploration of orientalism and queer representation within art history. Pulling these themes together in space to produce works that grapple with the entrenched hetero and ethnocentric hierarchies of the western art cannon.

Maya caught up with Gian about the show and overall practice.

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Julian Dashper: Midwestern Unlike You and Me w/ Andrew Thomas: 20th February, 2026

Currently showing at Michael Lett Gallery is a restaging of Julian Dashper’s mid-career survey exhibition Midwestern Unlike You and Me, which originally toured the American Midwest from 2005-2006. Curated by Christopher Cook and David Raskin, the exhibition was and is the first and only time a survey exhibition of a New Zealand artist has toured the United States. 

Dashper was regarded as one of Aotearoa’s most well-known contemporary artists. Being a primarily conceptually based artist, his work has often been described as being intertwined with this dialogue with other artists and art history – both internationally and locally, placing Aotearoa’s geographical positioning at the centre of his practice as he explored these ideas of international styles, visual cultures, and repositioning the artworld’s institutional framework through his varied materiality.

Marking 20 years since this significant moment in Dashper’s career, Midwestern, Unlike You and Me at Michael Lett brings together around 50 works and objects, many of which have not been seen publicly since the exhibition’s American tour. 

Sof had a kōrero with co-director of Michael Lett, Andrew Thomas, about the show and Dashper’s life and practice more generally.