In a classic case of a tone-deaf civil servant who thinks she knows best, Solicitor-General Una Jagose issued and then retracted a sentencing guidance document that gave Māori a literal get-out-of-jail-free card based entirely on ethnicity.
All too often we see a civil servant thumbing their nose at government directives, thinking (erroneously) that they know better than the government. Such civil servants are actually fifth columnists who constantly white-ant and undermine their minister and/or the government.
The latest example is that of Solicitor-General Una Jagose, who issued sentencing guidance that basically issued Māori a get out of jail free card based on their ethnicity.
Calling to abolish the police one week, running to them the next.
Title VII makes it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of race. But many firms’ efforts to ‘increase diversity’ did exactly that.
The law will empower police to carry out 50,000 random roadside drug tests per year – a move seen as critical to improving road safety.
From doctors to parents, nobody is spared the legal lash.
The outrage over Trump’s protectionism is so hypocritical and self serving from every quarter that I hope he wins and rewrites the rulebook on global trade.
The Treaty Principles debate isn’t just about a piece of legislation: it’s about who we are as a nation. Are we one people, equal under the law? Or are we a patchwork of grievances, sorted by bloodlines?
