I have never understood this. Like why, you’ll never talk to these people, or have anything to do with the community… What is the point of spending your limited time on this planet getting into other people’s business.

Yep, and the chance of the leader of a party resigning is asymptomaticly low.

I think the better idea is to sweat him, not calling for his resignation.

Why did they choose this company, which has been fined in the past for not fulfilling their contracts WRT this kind of thing?
How did he expect to supply the same quality of service for significantly less money?
If he didn’t expect to get the same quality, why was this an acceptable option?
Is the goal of this to promote education, or is this just political ass covering?

Usually it is referring to Maori cultural knowledge, but it tends to be given less weight than say christian cultural knowledge, or European cultural knowledge.

e.g. from the report

“Tū rangatira [stand proudly as chiefs] encapsulates my rights, responsibilities, and obligations to stand. It enables me to make decisions and choices for myself and others. It also relates to mana-enhancing, protecting mine and others”
Rangatiratanga pre-survey respondent

In my view, this Moari knowledge has a lot more similarity with stoic philosophy than with version of European (mostly British) cultural knowledge that we have.

This is true… My 3 boys seem to consume approximately everything that isn’t nailed down.

Police Association response

“It’s not worth getting hurt, or even killed, for a few dollars or some cigarettes,” he said.

He makes a good point here, police get assaulted and they are expecting to deal with these situations.

He said police officers are highly trained and equipped to deal with criminals, however, they still suffer assaults.

Reduce poverty and improve the lives of people, we can’t punish our way out of crime.

He said the crimes that would fall under these changes are primarily crimes of poverty, particularly, carried out by children.

Not necessarily…the public could still torpedo this!

71 percent of Māori with a Māori name, most (53 percent) had to explain or spell their name regularly.

As someone with an uncommon name that sounds similar to a common name; I regularly have to spell my name. I have even been “corrected” to the correct spelling twice. My partner who is not of European descent…she has to spell her last name all the time.

I wouldn’t class that as racism. However…

For example, when shopping or seeking services, 89 percent of Māori said they were less likely to receive assistance because they were Māori, and most had been followed, watched or asked to open their bags in a shop. A quarter of those surveyed said they were followed all the time or often.

Is straight up racism; and needs to be nipped in the bud.

Yes, but we don’t govern by what the experts say. We govern by what the current party thinks their base wants. It is all based on feeling and not knowledge.

No. If you are actively searching for something, and go to a specific place that sells that thing. It is not advertising, the active party is you not them.

The problem is when the active party is the ad-networks, the trackers, the junk pushers.

If I go to a review site, for say lawn mowers, and they say hey brand 1 is great, but brand 2 is better because of ‘reasons’; I am active, engaging in the process. If however, I then go to a site that is about tigers, and brand 3 pushes their ad to intrude on the tiger info…this (in my opinion) is a major intrusion into my private space.