After the lack of leadership displayed during the Waikeria Prison Riot, Minister Davis must be urgently reviewing the current state of the NZ prison muster.
The cannabis referendum is 5 months away, the moment it passes the Government must swing into action to allow the industry to start hiring people as soon as possible.
The important thing to understand moving forward is that there is not and can not be a ‘post-pandemic New Zealand’ until there is a vaccine.
I salute those Māori who have taken matters into their own hands to police pandemic checkpoints and screen those entering their lands.
John Tamihere has entered the 2020 election as a candidate for the Māori Party in the Tamaki Makaurau electorate and if successful, could reshape the next Government.
It’s an interesting tactic, but the National Party of New Zealand clearly believe that renters and workers won’t bother voting in the 2020 election because they are promising that if National become the Government they will remove renter rights and scrap any plan to raise the minimum wage.
In 2020, Māori will ask if their faith in Jacinda has justified putting all their eggs in Labour’s basket, or whether extra Māori voices outside Labour are required to see real political sovereignty.
The 2019 child poverty monitor report makes for grim reading…
We should collectively be righteously appalled at the tone deaf ODT cartoon that made light of the terrible measles epidemic that has killed over 50 children in Samoa. It was an ugly ‘joke’ that shouted white privilege, but calls to boycott the ODT, sack the cartoonist and the enormous social media wave of fury seem to me to be grotesquely misplaced.
The stats when it comes to Māori cannabis convictions and shootings by armed Police make for sobering reading.