Pee Kay: I was beaten for speaking Maori

Another Maori Language Week has come and gone and as usual, we were subjected to TV reporters giving a lesson on how to mangle a language, the obligatory profusion of pro and anti-commentary and it delivered some sideshows and farces of absurdity.

Topping my list was Rāwiri Waititi.

Bob Edlin: Simmonds wriggles when quizzed about spending cuts and apprenticeship numbers

Penny Simmonds, Minister of Vocational Education, was asked this week if she stood by her statement that there is “more concern that we need to be focused on around the actual completions of apprentices”?

Simmonds did stand by it:

Cam Slater: A Forlorn Hope

Via Stuff we find out that Chris Hipkins wants to mend Labour’s relationship with Auckland, after treating Auckland so harshly during the lockdowns and derisively trying to tell us what to do from Wellington.