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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: An unprecedented coalition of 25 organisations like the New Zealand Medical Association, the Mental Health Foundation, the Public Health Association, the Maori Law Society, the Drug Foundation, Hapai te Hauora, and JustSpeak have called on drug reform citing health and societal issues while pointing out how racist our drug laws are..Read more
13 Apr 2021 13:18
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: More criticism last week of the Sexual Violence Legislation Bill when the co-President of the Penal Reform League, Lady Heeni Phillips-Williams, warned again that the law changes would see more innocent Maori men found guilty of rape and sexual assault..Read more
09 Apr 2021 10:15
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: News last week that the Māori Party are supporting Waikeria Prison protesters in filing civil rights claims against Corrections brutally outflanked the hapless Kelvin Davis once again..Read more
06 Apr 2021 09:00
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: Nanaia Mahuta's move from Māori Development Minister to Foreign Affairs was initially perceived as an acknowledgment of the rising political muscle of urban Māori that Willie Jackson's appointment represents, but Nanaia has found a style that transforms NZs Foreign Affairs and leads with real mana that is increasingly looking urgently needed..Read more
29 Mar 2021 09:21
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis has finally lost his patience with Corrections..Read more
23 Mar 2021 14:39
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: The Green Party had one of its best political weeks in Parliament ever this week..Read more
22 Mar 2021 10:00
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: There is a mad scramble after the cowardice of Labour's decision to allow 51% of the electorate to criminalise the other 49% to seek decriminalisation of cannabis as a way to eliminate this racist drug law..Read more
16 Mar 2021 10:39
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: The task incoming chief executive Sir Wira Gardiner has with Oranga Tamariki was laid bare this week with yet another example of OT using extraordinary legal powers to simply uplift children without notice..Read more
12 Mar 2021 10:18
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: Last week I wrote that the new Sexual Violence legislation being pushed by the Greens would have the unintended consequnce of locking more Maori men up for sexual crimes..Read more
08 Mar 2021 08:54
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: The new Sexual Violence legislation the Greens are pushing through Parliament has noble intentions to make the process less traumatic on victims, but by removing defences to rape to ensure more guilty verdicts are returned, the Greens could be setting up more Māori men for convictions..Read more
05 Mar 2021 11:27
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: People are angry..Read more
02 Mar 2021 10:57
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: I am honestly not sure who is advising Minister Kelvin Davis, but his surprising decision this week to attack People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) and refer their pamphlets calling on prison reform to the Police for supposedly inciting the prison riot at Waikeria prison is such a desperately wrong footed move one is left wondering what on earth he thinks he's doing..Read more
26 Feb 2021 08:48
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: The decision by the Government to step in and stop the anti-Māori petition law from derailing Māori representation at Local Council is true democracy at its best..Read more
22 Feb 2021 08:57
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: Closing submissions in the urgent Waitangi Tribunal hearing into the multiple failings of Oranga Tamariki wrapped this week amongst a call to completely dismantle the organisation..Read more
19 Feb 2021 11:12
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: You can appreciate Māori Labour MPs frustration as their work on Matariki, Oranga Tamariki, Ihumātao, anti-Māori petitions and Māori land reform got overshadowed this week by a Māori Party who managed to suck all the news oxygen out of the room through a fight over neckties and cultural identity..Read more
12 Feb 2021 08:42
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: And it's Willie Jackson for the win!.Read more
08 Feb 2021 10:42
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: This is Jacinda's fourth Waitangi Day as Prime Minister and thankfully she wasn't just offering the public holiday of Matariki in two years on the Treaty grounds, in fact, it was what wasn't spoken this year that offers Māoridom the most hope..Read more
05 Feb 2021 09:30
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One of the things I as a Pākehā have learned to understand about a Māori worldview is that the past is present in every step of today to guide tomorrow..Read more
01 Feb 2021 08:33
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: On MagicTalk radio this week, former Auckland Mayor and National Party stormtrooper, John Banks, allowed a caller to make deeply racist claims against Māori culture, scientifically false claims about Māori being genetically inferior and then bewilderingly warned listeners these people were going to climb through windows into our houses!.Read more
28 Jan 2021 10:54
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: With the resignation of Grainne Moss from Oranga Tamariki, Kelvin Davis has lost a second political victory to the Māori Party in less than a month..Read more
25 Jan 2021 11:45
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: As the planet is plunged into the economic whiplash of the growing global pandemic, the dance between Māori and Pakeha politics in 2021 will become far more aggressive in tempo and demands..Read more
21 Jan 2021 15:30
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: An example from social media of the total power the Ministry of Social Development has over the lives of beneficiaries emerged last week and reminded everyone of the punitive welfare culture we still have in NZ..Read more
18 Jan 2021 13:12
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: After the lack of leadership displayed during the Waikeria Prison Riot, Minister Davis must be urgently reviewing the current state of the NZ prison muster..Read more
14 Jan 2021 09:51
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: 2021 has barely begun and NZ Politics is already reeling on a multitude of fronts which will continue to shape what is already looking like a year that may manage to eclipse the trauma of 2020..Read more
11 Jan 2021 14:12
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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: Kelvin Davis has been the quiet achiever on prisons..Read more
04 Jan 2021 09:36
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