For years, New Zealanders were told we were a model nation – clean, fair and free of corruption.
But many are now waking up to a different reality. Corruption here may not come with suitcases of cash. Still, it’s no less real when certain iwi organisations – flush with public money – use their so-called ‘consultation rights’ to demand levies on everything from building permits to coastal walks and recreational fishing.
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Ani O’Brien said “in desperation or frustration” she made a complaint with NetSafe – which receives and assesses complaints – and then took the case under the Harmful Digital Communications Act.
The word for today is… tacit (adjective) - 1: expressed or carried on without words or speech 2: implied or indicated (as by an act or by silence) but not actually expressed Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : In the first chapter of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, the narrator Mr. Lockwood recounts
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
