Waatea News Column: New Zealand must do more than celebrate Maori resilience
Last week for International Day of Indigenous Peoples, Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon called for New Zealand to amplify Māori resilience.
Last week for International Day of Indigenous Peoples, Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon called for New Zealand to amplify Māori resilience.
Yes, this is a Covid election in a dying world.
Condemn Israeli bombing of Gaza and
Call for lifting of the Israeli blockade on the besieged Palestinian enclave
After promising that he wasn’t a conspiracy theorist for espousing a conspiracy theory in the middle of a press conference, Gerry Brownlee has bewilderingly done it again!!!
The vile little man. There are not enough words! First he castigated NZ for beating the virus “because they wanted to show me something” (as if!). Then he castigated us for getting it back. “This big surge in New Zealand…. It’s terrible. We don’t want that”.
Despite the loopholes exposed in border quarantine procedures, the naked truth is that the DNA of this latest Auckland Covid outbreak DOESN’T match any of those we have in quarantine.
Do you find yourself wanting to block or argue with friends and whānau who are sharing dodgy information?
More bluntly: if Peters’ cynical display of faux constitutional outrage isn’t enough to persuade Jacinda Ardern to dispense with NZ First’s services as a coalition partner, post 17 October, then she is not the shrewd judge of the electorate’s wishes that everything she has accomplished to date proclaims her to be.
Look at how it took Judith 8 times before she said she would accept the election result and even then she hedged it!
The only thing the Right have gained here is more rope to hang themselves with.