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Why Does She Still Have a Job?

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.

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