Bob Edlin: Asian school attendance rates cast doubts over links between the Treaty....

....“cultural safety” and Maori truancy

Newsroom brought Maori truancy into focus in a report headed Record school attendance masks persistent gap for Māori.

It was a narrow focus. No mention was made – for comparative purposes – of school attendance rates among other ethnic groups which might be culturally disadvantaged in the New Zealand school system – or who might feel culturally “unsafe”.

The report said:

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 21/11/24

Three minutes after midnight, police make arrest under new gang patch law – but the boot camp news is disappointing

The good news on the law-and-order front today came from an ebullient Police Minister Mark Mitchell. Police had made their first arrests under the new gang patch legislation, with two gang members arrested, says Police Minister Mark Mitchell.

Just before 11 this morning, Police in Wairoa apprehended a gang member for wearing a patch to the supermarket. He had been arrested and would face “enforcement action”.