whoops, you're right, typo. i'll edit the post.
yes, and this piece at newsroom is also excellent: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/04/16/104977/benedict-tompkins it's well known that judges need a lot more training. apparently district court judges got some in 2015: https://nzfvc.org.nz/news/judges-...
Written By: stargazer - Date published: 6:16 pm, April 19th, 2018 - 49 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, censorship, domestic violence, law, uncategorized
Tags: justice system
Last week Catriona MacLennan, a lawyer and media commentator, wrote a piece published at newsroom about disciplinary action being taken against her by the Law Society. I won't put large excerpts here, as I think it's important to go there and read the …
in which case they wouldn't need a data-modelling system that pre-emptively targets victims of harm - which is what the briefing to the minister specifically states that this project would do. your assertion that most "haven't bothered with the legalities"...
again, see my comment above. yes, there are sometimes valid reasons, so be transparent, don't have a blanket exemption and allow challenge. perhaps what she has seen is actually discrimination that can't be justified, there is no valid reason. just like ...
and read my numerous comments that they should be justifying the discrimination and not have a blanket exemption. if they have a reasonable case for discrimination, put it up and let it be challenged.
the quota is there for foreign policy reasons, and part of the pacific aid programme. you are getting into nonsense territory with this comment.
and yet they do find out - when they do raids of restaurants that use these tactics against migrant workers; when women present to the police and various other measures. deporting people who are victims does nothing to solve the problem, is hugely unfair ...
perhaps read tze ming's thread - she worked at INZ and is saying that profiling happened across the board. you"would think" that actual evidence is required in this particular case i mentioned, but none has been provided and there is no evidence that she ...
i'm actually trying to get support for someone advocating for a situation where 2 people from the same country applied for holiday visas, both similar age & very similar financial situation. the male got through, the female was denied - no pregnancy issues...
yes, i actually mention in the post that HRC agree that there are legitimate reasons for discrimination. but their position also was that INZ should be transparent about those reasons and justify them, rather than having a blanket exemption from the Human ...
Written By: stargazer - Date published: 8:00 am, April 10th, 2018 - 43 comments
Categories: human rights, immigration, law, racism
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The good news is that our Immigration Minister has put the "pilot data modelling programme" on hold, with assurances that race and nationality were never used. I sincerely hope so, because there are huge issues if it does get used. From Gordon Campbell: …
sorry, what? i genuinely have no idea what point you are trying to make.
i certainly haven't found the coverage awful. the commentators have been giving me the information i need. and yes, i expect that the price for getting to view events free-to-air will be more advertising. again hasn't bothered me, especially because i know...
Written By: stargazer - Date published: 8:30 am, April 9th, 2018 - 45 comments
Categories: sport, tv
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I don't know about you, but I've really enjoyed the coverage of the Commonwealth Games this week. With TVNZ providing coverage over 3 channels, there's an ability to watch a range of sports and to keep an eye on various things by switching between …
"Hi Stargazer, welcome back! I hope this is the first post of many." thank you!
"But bombing is not caused by over population or underpopulation and to put the two together is misleading." that's not at all what i'm saying. i'm not talking about the causes of bombing, i'm talking about the fact that a population that has been ...
ok, i tried watching that but it was awful, and sure enough, she went to bangladesh. no-one's talking about over-population? i don't know what island she has been living on, but in china and india, and many other parts of the world, people talk about it ...
"China is not a democracy and they are going to do what they want. India is gonna overtake China soon as being the most populous country." but here's the thing: china is the one that had a one-child policy for decades, and has only recently moved to a two-...
i can tell you this: people like myself who live with racism every day do not need to refer to a dictionary definition. you might need the definition because it might not part of your lived experience. the reason why this post resonates with me: because a ...
why on earth would you assume i'm male???? there is enough food in the world to feed everyone at present. i absolutely agree about the production and distribution being a problem - so let's have a conversation about how we produce and distribute more ...
Written By: stargazer - Date published: 9:00 am, March 26th, 2018 - 189 comments
Categories: capitalism, Economy, poverty, racism, twitter
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It's been a while since I've written a blog post, almost a three-year break. But I'm finally in a position to start writing again, so let's see how this goes. I found this twitter thread by Hossam really resonating with me: "Overpopulation" is one of the …
yup, that email is perfectly fine, would love to hear from you :)
great post weka, and good commentary on this blog as well. as someone who has written here, and is now starting to think about getting back into blogging, i know i really struggled. some of it is not being able to moderate while i'm at work, some of it is ...
are you seriously suggesting that while they are having an interaction with a police officer, the young person should pull out a camera and start filming it? and even they are in a position to do that, do you think the police officer would change their ...
yeah, i also didn't like this bit - pitting ethnic communities against each other, effectively. i'm wondering if the 2 people quoted had read the full report (which i received today in my inbox) before commenting, or whether these were just general ...
i totally agree with your comments here about community policing - an area of policing which has been reduced considerably in recent years. re your comment about police taking interest in the activities of young men, there are a few issues in there. the ...
yes it does. and yet, funnily enough, media do not use that word when reporting on other social research that involves people describing their experiences. there's another whole post in my head about the way the media has reported this issue, but i didn't ...
Written By: stargazer - Date published: 8:00 am, March 7th, 2016 - 19 comments
Categories: police, racism, uncategorized
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Having been away for the weekend, I hadn't had time to write about this piece of research by Camille Nakhid, showing that the police are using "derogatory insults or comments, dismissive behaviour and even excessive force by the police". The police …
This is such a lovely post, you have expressed it so beautifully. I had almost decided to leave this discussion, but I'm so glad I didn't. Your words have had me smiling inside all day. And I do agree with you that it is a utopian ideal. But if we keep it ...
The problem I have with this analysis is this: in the 2000s, we had very low unemployment. But we still had less than 10% of the boards of public companies comprised of women & even less for people of colour (& this was never a matter of merit, it was ...
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