Aaron Smale
Contributing writer
Aaron Smale is a journalist specialising in te ao Māori issues.
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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.