It’s true that you can’t choose your family, but if it includes members of an organisation that unrepentantly peddles misery and violence – and you are neither willing to denounce their behaviour nor distance yourself from them – politics is always going to be a very risky career choice.
It should be deeply embarrassing for Massey to be obliged to convene a panel to consider whether the articles written by three senior academics “reflect its values”. Schwerdtfeger – an academic heavyweight with an international reputation – will have to prepare a defence.
Anyone who thinks the role of the transport agency is to provide efficient and safe ferries, buses and trains is clearly mistaken. AT has taken upon itself the task of providing compulsory language lessons to a captive audience.
A response to an OIA request for a breakdown of applicants for Auckland Med School’s 2024’s intake showed the median Grade Point Average GPA for successful graduate students under general admission was 8.5; for MAPAS applicants it was 6.25.
For all the talk about mirroring demographics and countering disadvantage, race-based entry programmes to our medical schools rest on a highly contested political ideology of separatism that, for obvious reasons, is rarely presented to the general public as its underlying rationale.
The collaboration between CRL and the Mana Whenua Forum is only the beginning of the panel’s ambitions. It has decided a case study of the relationship will “provide a framework for future large infrastructure developments to enter into mana whenua iwi partnerships for the benefit of all”.
Māori history and culture is obviously a very important strand in New Zealand society – and often a fascinating one – but the bowdlerised and black-armband version that RNZ provides only hurts its credibility.
The stealthy insertion has been seen by critics as a Trojan horse for constitutional – and anti-democratic – change.
Robert Nola, Michael Corballis and John Werry – have died since the letter was published. But the stand they took alongside their fellow professors Kendall Clements, Dame Elizabeth Rata, Douglas Elliffe and Garth Cooper continues to reverberate in public debate and government policy.
The danger for him using the UNDRIP clause as a “cudgel” against National and ACT and keeping it in the public eye, is that, sooner or later, someone might ask him whether a bureaucrat in his ministry inserted it.
Many among the coalition government’s voters will remain incensed until the agreement has been altered.
If Labour leads the next government, He Puapua will undoubtedly be back at full throttle – even though Hipkins will undoubtedly not mention it by name.
Fighting talk from a TVNZ journalist.
Journalists are further degrading the public’s trust in them.
