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On 14 March the Human Rights Review Tribunal began hearing my case against Corrections policy of automatically redacting the names, positions and work contact details of its staff from documents released under the Privacy and Official Information Act.
It is great to watch the Solomon Islands establishing itself as a champion of human rights for West Papua.
If you were to listen to the tripe trotted out by corrections spin doctors (which cost you tens of millions) you could be forgiven to thinking all was rosy behind prison walls.
The way comments made by me have been reported are baffling. Of more concern, however, is that they may have offended anyone. I would never want for anyone in this country to feel they are being somehow targeted. That’s not what I stand for and it’s not what Labour stands for either.
Many will say, indeed have been saying for many months, ‘It will never happen’. I have been noticing that the chuckle or snigger that usually follows this pronouncement has been sounding ever more nervous and hollow of late.
Effects on Māori communities — including mana whenua of Ihumātao — from land confiscation were far reaching and devastating, and are now finally well-documented
This week marks the beginning of the Government’s national roadshow on the TPPA, a roadshow that was meant to address the people of New Zealand’s questions and concerns regarding this ‘trade agreement’, with a focus on public consultation.
The Government is considering the recommendations of a former Deputy Prime Minister and lawyer as it embarks on designing a new wave of controversial spy-law reform. And again, it looks certain to drive a wedge into contemporary New Zealand.
We’ll keep you updated on any developments.
I asked to room again equally interested to see if anyone would promote the lone Maori staff members knowledge of his culture above their rank in the hierarchy and divert the question to him.
But no the senior European staff members continued to blunder their way thru PC quotations spewing out random and inapplicable Te reo in a bid to assert their cultural awareness