Quick Hit: Gang Funding – The State-Sponsored Patronage Era Ends
The media’s attempt to frame this as ‘losing community engagement’ is a joke: you cannot engage with a criminal enterprise without becoming its payroll office.
Law and Order
Quick Hit – The Judiciary Has Lower Standards Than the Northern Club
The Judicial Conduct Panel has set a precedent – and it’s the wrong one. It has told every judge in the country that you can publicly heckle a senior government minister, accuse him of lying, invoke your judicial colleagues as political allies and still keep your job.
Quick Hit: Gangs Act Gets Its First Scalp – And the Apologists Are Already Crying
A Mongrel Mob member has been convicted for wearing gang insignia while driving home from a tangi. The High Court just upheld it on appeal.