New shameful footage of Oranga Tamariki using Police to take a new born Maori infant from a mothers arms has emerged from Auckland Hospital and the outrage should be deafening.
Why is the Leader of the Opposition meeting with the leader of China’s Secret Police while being chaperoned by a National Party MP who is alleged to be a Chinese spy?
Who have we become as a people when such injustice towards the most vulnerable becomes the standard?
…I hope sometime in the future when academics look back to unpick this cluster fuck of social policy that they damn the MPs and journalists who created it.
There’s such a churn of news that at times you miss things and need to pull them back into the spotlight.
Last week, Amnesty International harshly criticised Oranga Tamariki for allowing 14 year old children who have been uplifted from whanau or taken into custody by Police to stay for up to 48 hours in Police cells until they are found appropriate accommodation.
We all wish Winston a speedy recovery from his, old rugby injury.
The SIS and GCSB KNEW the information was coming from CIA black sites, what the hell did they think was happening at those CIA black sites? The information was being tickled out of people?
The extraordinary journalism on display today at The Spinoff by Alex Casey demolishes any facade that the allegations were a mistaken interaction that has been over hyped.
Nothing tells us that the absurd speculative property bubble has finally popped in Auckland quite like the astounding failure of the Blocks auction.