The importance of the report was not really in the general recommendations for improvement in the system. The most crucial element was the detailed articulation of how Māori have increasingly become an imprisoned society, with one in five Māori males spending time in prison in their lives.
The poll results last night are the worst possible outcome for pundits because no one has any clear idea which one is right – TVNZ uses 50% landline & 50% cell phones and that methodology suggests something very different to TV3s 75% landline/25% online poll.
Under Winston Peters (Minister of Foreign Affairs) and Ron Mark (Minister of Defence) government policy on the Middle East has taken a great stride to the right. It was always pro-Israeli and never pro-Palestinian but Peters and Mark have taken New Zealand further to the right and closer to the US position.
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“You can’t have a ‘wellbeing’ budget if your low paid workers are not having better lives as a result of it”
Malcolm Evans – speed limits
Democrats Vs Republicans
5: DENMARK’S ELECTIONS SHOW HOW MUCH EUROPE HAS NORMALIZED ANTI-IMMIGRANT POLITICS
4: Palestine considers ICC complaint against US Ambassador Friedman
3: AMID SPIKE IN MIGRANTS CROSSING THE MEDITERRANEAN, EUROPE IS STILL DELAYING RESCUES
2: “They Are Not the Central Park 5”: Ava DuVernay’s Series Restores Humanity of Wrongly Convicted Boys
1: Clashes in Hong Kong after vast protest against extradition law
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For years I’ve been writing on this blog and elsewhere about New Zealand’s shame in failing Māui and Hector’s dolphins. Here I go again.