Waatea News Column: The 5 big political issues for Maori in 2019
2019 was a difficult year politically with the promise of much but the delivery of little.
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Waatea News Column: It’s been 40 days since the Oranga Tamariki footage and the PM + her Minister have still not seen it
What possible excuse could the PM and the Minister directly in charge of the agency under scrutiny not have viewed this appalling footage?
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Waatea News Column: Our damaged, racist Prison Industry is the legacy of hate and spite as social policy
32 years after the Roper Report told us that our Prison system wasn’t working by jailing and punishing too many, we get another Justice Advisory report once again highlighting our debased prison system as deeply damaging, deeply racist and deeply counter productive.
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Waatea News Column: How is anyone surprised by the bullying report in Parliament?
How were any of us surprised by the bullying report into the toxic culture within Parliament? Look at how the…
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Waatea News Column – White supremacy and terrorism
Our SIS & GCSB are supposed to protect us from this type of act, yet despite being warned about the shooter and the Muslim communities own complaints about ratcheting violence, white supremacists weren’t seen as a threat and according to the last decade of SIS reports, have never emerged as a specific danger.
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Waatea News Column – The new stolen generation of Māori children
Where is the outcry over this ramping up of seizing children and what extra resource has been put in place to protect those children once they have been taken?
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Waatea News Column: Wait, what? We are going to re-victimise Māori AGAIN?
As New Zealand gears up for a referendum on Cannabis, some of the ideas being floated right now look to re-victimise Māori. National are suggesting that only “fit and proper persons” should be allowed to grow legal cannabis. That means anyone with a criminal conviction won’t be allowed to benefit from a legal cannabis market.
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Waatea News Column: Climate Change is here now – what will we do?
News last week that the latest studies show Antartica is in danger of melting should shake us from any complacency that climate change is some distant event at the end of the century.
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Waatea News Column – The attacks by National on Immigration Minister, Iain Lees-Galloway are ridiculous !
The attacks by National on Immigration Minister, Iain Less-Galloway are ridiculous! The Minister based his decision on Karel Sroubek using the best information from the Ministry. Allegations and accusations aside, a 3 week inquiry will get to the bottom of the decision and then we will have clarity.
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Waatea News Column – The Politics of Kindness
Imagine a world where the politics of kindness was our shared value as a country, imagine how much further we could go to give everyone the true agency they deserve and overcome the selfishly induced corruptions atet plague us.