The latest political poll spells real danger to the Labour-led Government. After ruling NZ First out as a possible coalition partner by National, NZF has slumped to 3%.
The Whānau Ora report into Oranga Tamariki is out, and it is a deplorable, despicable and unacceptable read! 14 armed…
2019 was a difficult year politically with the promise of much but the delivery of little.
What possible excuse could the PM and the Minister directly in charge of the agency under scrutiny not have viewed this appalling footage?
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.
How were any of us surprised by the bullying report into the toxic culture within Parliament? Look at how the…
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.
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?
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.
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.