Once you understand that the entirety of academia, public service, media and government are engaged in a Quixotian process of ‘decolonisation’ and ‘re-indigenisation’, all of this baffling stuff that has been going on comes into focus.
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Labour party Life Member and former Minister of Maori Affairs Dover Samuels has changed to the General Roll, such is his disenchantment with Labour and Co-governance and virtue signaling use of Maori names.
Extraordinary!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv9ZQVfQ8Ng
Having met Dover a number of times, and having witnessed his holding Helen Clark over a barrel for No4 on the party list, (for which she later knifed him at the first opportunity) I'm astounded and pleasantly surprised. If he is a bell weather for rural Maori's view of the BS virtue signaling coming from the Beehive, Labour's in a deeper hole than the polls reveal. They won't get these people back. I'm hearing similar views from kaumatua and kuia where I live on the west coast in Northland.
Demands for houses for prisoners are now being made. Currently Aotearoa is failing prisoners.
Associate Professor Alice Mills says it's tough for burglars, sex offenders, murderers etc to find stable housing. Amazingly though, this is not due to their criminal actions -
“This is likely to reflect the difficulties faced by Māori in wider society, including racism and discrimination in rental housing markets, and demonstrates the need for specialist housing support and provision for Māori leaving prison,” Mills said.
Yes, it's racism and discrimination. The awful 'neo-colonialists' are victimising the newly released 'innocent criminals'.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/pris...are%20released
The University of Auckland study suggests Aotearoa is failing prisoners by not providing stable housing options once they are released.
The study interviewed 201 people from six prisons while they were incarcerated, just before their release and six and 12 months afterwards.
The report’s lead author, Associate Professor Alice Mills, said 34 per cent of people who reported having unstable housing during their first post-release interview were reimprisoned within a year.
Having stable housing meant people leaving prison were in a better position to re-establish their lives and relationships, access support, services, and work, she said.
“We can’t afford as a society not to do this. Recidivism has a high human and economic cost in Aotearoa, which is why everyone who enters prison, regardless of their status, should be given a detailed housing needs assessment which should be maintained and updated throughout their stay.”
Figures from the Department of Corrections suggested less than half of those released were able to settle into long-term accommodation, and roughly 60 per cent of former prisoners would be resentenced within two years.
Of those interviewed, three-quarters identified as Māori, 17 per cent as women, more than three-quarters had children, and most served sentences of two years or less.
Close to a third of participants reported receiving any support to find housing before being released, with no respondents who were homeowners reporting any assistance to help them keep it.
The report found more than 20 per cent did not know where they were going to live after being released and expected they would become homeless.
After they were released, more than half reported it was very hard to find housing.
The study found Māori were 1.7 times more likely to live in unstable housing and 2.4 times more likely to have moved twice or more in the six months after their release.
“This is likely to reflect the difficulties faced by Māori in wider society, including racism and discrimination in rental housing markets, and demonstrates the need for specialist housing support and provision for Māori leaving prison,” Mills said.
Corrections and its partners provide more than 1200 housing places each year which include emergency accommodation, transitional housing and provisions for specific groups.
Most of those programmes supported people who had been in prison for two or more years and not those on shorter sentences, she said.
The report recommended more diverse housing options be available post-release nationwide, and more targeted, culturally appropriate services to help Māori find and keep stable housing after prison.
“And for wāhine who have often experienced abuse within the home, post-release housing should be safe, secure and supported, and provide a place for them to rebuild their relationships with their children,” Mills said.
If you can't enter with facial tattoo's, you can't enter with facial tattoo's. The rules are the rules & the Australian's tend to enforce their rules without fear or favour.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/faci...G5Q537JIC65KY/
'A Māori SAS veteran has spoken out after a Perth pub denied him service because he proudly wears facial moko.
Michael Barclay shared his story on Australian television after the incident that saw him rejected because his mataora reportedly breached the establishment’s own rules.
The refusal is the latest incident that has seen Māori in Australia turned away because of their moko.
Earlier this year, Juanita McNamara said she was left embarrassed and shocked after being denied entry to a bar because of her moko kauae.
She told the Herald she was enjoying a night out with friends in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley in April when three security guards at Finn McCool’s would not let her through the door.
“As I went to give my ID, the female security guard said to me you’re not allowed in because of your face and neck tattoos,” said McNamara.
“I explained to her the moko kauae [is a] taonga, it’s a treasure.”'
'By 2040, it's hoped one million New Zealanders will be able to speak basic te reo Māori.
This is just one of the Government's ambitious goals included in Maihi Karauna - the crown's Māori language strategy.
By 2040, it's aimed that:
- 85 per cent of New Zealanders will value te reo Māori as a key part of national identity.
- One million New Zealanders will be able to speak basic te reo Māori.
- 150,000 Māori aged 15 and over will used te reo as much as English.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/114...20as%20English.
What is not known is whether having a 'stable housing environment' would have made any difference to whether or not these convicted criminals would re-offend. The Associate Professor reckons it would, whereas perhaps a 'stable housing environment' - i.e. a stable base - would simply allow a better platform from which to undertake further criminal activity.
Another pledge from Labour today -
'Labour is pledging to train an extra 335 doctors a year from 2027 - up 62% from current levels.'