At Hui ā Motu, in Jan, Kiingi Tūheitia said these great words:
“The best protest we can do right now is be Maaori. Be who we are, live our values, speak our reo, care for our mokopuna, our awa, our maunga, just be Maaori. Maaori all day, every day. We are here, we are strong.”
Over the past few months, @JamieTahana and I examined the coalition's direction for Māori and gathered expert analysis on key policy areas. We hope this two-part series (interactive policy breakdown & written feature) becomes a useful resource. 1/2
https://t.co/3th6UJn3W8
“Once we went through the settlement process, the anger, it sort of started to dissipate but the memory of that lack of integrity remains today. We can allow the anger to dissipate but can never allow ourselves to fall into social amnesia."
https://t.co/QKEWI5inax
If we are to be a country of citizens of good character, with good ethics and morals, let’s try not to get offended by matters such as the use of te reo - which is an important cultural criterion for many people in New Zealand.
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Election 2023: Electoral Commission reviewing voting results after Herald investigation led to discovery of three wrong counts - turns out if was worth following up some on a surprising result at a polling booth in Pukekohe. https://t.co/FMmHzvM1ZO
40 per cent of NZ's prison population is on remand, up from 10 per cent in 2000, raising major justice and rehab concerns. Like much else Māori are disproportionately affected - Māori men are on remand at 9 times the rate of non-Māori https://t.co/y7A2tO84cF
How close is the election? I put together a little interactive to explore the potential impact of a shift from (or errors in) current polling - check it out in @audreyNZH's article https://t.co/T27fN2PJQi
How do pollsters poll?
Following on from last week's article on how to think about polls, @juliagabel talked to polling companies and @ResearchNZ about how they poll - https://t.co/iPh4t2w1gC
Data journalists @juliagabel and @vizowl calculate how much households in various spending brackets would actually save if GST was wiped from fruit and veggies (includes comments on whether retailers would pass on the cut) https://t.co/hb29RjpXFo
Spent a lot of time looking at crime numbers with @mr_neilson_ and concluded that crime stats aren't where we should be looking to understand crime so today I'm the anti-data journalist!
Read more here - I promise lots of scrolly-graphs https://t.co/im9vksAe9E