Was going through some old records from Pare looking for stuff for my book when I came across this…how Corrections used to do its utmost to restrict my contact with other prisoners so I couldn’t educate them.
THE DECISION BY STUFF to publish an all-purpose mea culpa for its racism towards Maori will be regretted.
Explosive new Oranga Tamariki footage was released on Newsroom late last week and before the weekend, Oranga Tamariki had a…
Labour-Green Climate Emergency Declaration.
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Back in early 2019 The Welfare Expert Advisory Group made 42 recommendations to transform the welfare system in it’s report…
What on earth is she doing???
Child advocates are dismayed by the lack of progress in welfare reform since government-appointed experts recommended a complete overhaul nearly…
Yes. Finally. Thank the little Baby Jesus that this Labour-Green Government had ended their trite incrementalism and were actually fucking doing something real and meaningful about the existential crisis of our time – Global Warming.
I noticed there was a significant amount of quite patronising racism in the response to the co-leaders, which is pretty typical. Whenever Māori speak up from their cultural perspective, there is an unfortunate tendency to label them as ignorant, or troublemakers, or not understanding protocol or blah blah blah.