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ELECTION SEASON FOR GANG BASHING
National Party leader Chris Luxon is promising to change the Sentencing Act to make being a gang member an aggravating factor, regardless of the offence committed.
Lady Moxon sees that as an attack on all Maori who have whanau who have been in gangs or gone through the Corrections system.....
waateanews.com/2023/06/20/election-season-for-gang-bashing/
MĀORI DESERVE TO LIVE LONGER; MINISTER KELVIN DAVIS
Māori Government Ministers are defending an algorithm designed by Te Whatu Ora-Health NZ, to address inequities within the health system.
The “Equity Adjustor Score”, is an algorithm that ranks patients according to clinical priority needs, time spent on the waitlist, geographic location (isolated and rural areas), deprivation level and ethnicity.
In the ethnicity category, Māori and Pacific are top of the list, while all other non-Māori are lower-ranked.
Minister for Corrects and MP for Te Tai Tokerau Kelvin Davis says that it’s a essential that we focus on the issue and that is that Māori have the right to live as long as anyone else in New Zealand and not die on average seven years earlier....
waateanews.com/2023/06/20/maori-deserve-to-live-longer-minister-kelvin-davis/
WAKA RAISES MANA OF SUPPRESSED IWI
The discovery of a waka believed to more than 150 years old in the Pātea River has reignited a battle to have Te Pakakohi recognised as the ninth iwi of the Taranaki region.
Manutahi Marae chair Dean Kahukuranui says Te Pakakohi was decimated when 74 of its warriors were arrested in 1869 for so-called rebellion against the Crown and imprisoned in Dunedin for three years.
He says their land was confiscated and there was also a concerted effort to write the iwi out of the history books....
waateanews.com/2023/06/20/waka-raises-mana-of-suppressed-iwi/
National Party leader Chris Luxon is promising to change the Sentencing Act to make being a gang member an aggravating factor, regardless of the offence committed.
Lady Moxon sees that as an attack on all Maori who have whanau who have been in gangs or gone through the Corrections system.....
waateanews.com/2023/06/20/election-season-for-gang-bashing/
MĀORI DESERVE TO LIVE LONGER; MINISTER KELVIN DAVIS
Māori Government Ministers are defending an algorithm designed by Te Whatu Ora-Health NZ, to address inequities within the health system.
The “Equity Adjustor Score”, is an algorithm that ranks patients according to clinical priority needs, time spent on the waitlist, geographic location (isolated and rural areas), deprivation level and ethnicity.
In the ethnicity category, Māori and Pacific are top of the list, while all other non-Māori are lower-ranked.
Minister for Corrects and MP for Te Tai Tokerau Kelvin Davis says that it’s a essential that we focus on the issue and that is that Māori have the right to live as long as anyone else in New Zealand and not die on average seven years earlier....
waateanews.com/2023/06/20/maori-deserve-to-live-longer-minister-kelvin-davis/
WAKA RAISES MANA OF SUPPRESSED IWI
The discovery of a waka believed to more than 150 years old in the Pātea River has reignited a battle to have Te Pakakohi recognised as the ninth iwi of the Taranaki region.
Manutahi Marae chair Dean Kahukuranui says Te Pakakohi was decimated when 74 of its warriors were arrested in 1869 for so-called rebellion against the Crown and imprisoned in Dunedin for three years.
He says their land was confiscated and there was also a concerted effort to write the iwi out of the history books....
waateanews.com/2023/06/20/waka-raises-mana-of-suppressed-iwi/