The push for a separate Maori Justice System in this country is well underway with the Police Minister, Ginny Anderson, leading the current charge.
from the NZ Herald
A tikanga approach for Māori caught in the justice system will be further strengthened as Te Pae Oranga expands its foothold in Aotearoa.
The Government’s $70 million investment will add another 30 Te Pae Oranga sites by 2024/25. Te Pae Oranga were previously iwi community panels or community justice panels and have been operating on marae successfully for more than a decade.
The marae-based justice programmes give police an alternative approach to court and can refer offenders to marae, like Waahi Marae in Rāhui Pokeka Pā/Huntly where panels of the offenders peers sit in judgment and also in support.
An announcement will take place this morning at Waahi Marae to celebrate the partnership between Māori and Police for the collaboration that’s making a tangible difference in communities through restorative practices, while looking at addressing issues that can lead to reoffending behaviour.
What about the victims? Seems they dont matter anymore.
New Zealand is Dead…
Probably not dead, but staggering on exhausted legs and feet waiting for the knock-out blow.
The real villains from my perspective as one who has spent most of my life fighting for improved literacy are those who have promoted balanced literacy , This reading method of NZer Marie Clay has caused catastrophic failure world wide as well as here. Two thirds of those who fail to become proficient in reading as students will end up on welfare or in prison. Planning for the future prison population is done by testing the number of failing readers at age 10 years. Fifty percent of our prison population are Maori. Of course there are other factors as well but reading is one that should have been fixed many decades ago. The evidence against whole Language has been overwhelming with evidence that low SES children suffer most from it.
As a Labour Party activist (in a previous incarnation), I supported having smaller classes. We got this accepted at the National Conference, however it was decided to implement it, not by lowering general classes, but by employing an extra teacher for reading recovery.
And the reading recovery programme used the discredited “whole language” system: maybe it still does.
“the collaboration that’s making a tangible difference in communities”
Ram raiding, for example?