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New Zealand's liberal blog.
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- I guess this is a reminder that our parliament is too powerful; that the government really _can_ just suspend all opposition members via its kangaroo court if it feels like it, with no oversight by the courts, and turn our democracy into a joke. We need to fix that. We need to nobble them.
- The Privilege's Committee's "process" wouldn't pass the laugh test, let alone meet the basic requirements of natural justice. It violates the BORA. But they don't care, because privilege. We need to remove that, and make that institution subject to the law.
- FUUUUCK THE PRIVILEGES COMMITTEEEEEEE
- And fuck its racist members. Every single one of them. Fuck them all. And fuck their parliament.
- A parliament which denies Māori representation is not in any sense of the word Aotearoa's Parliament. Instead its a racist colonial regime, and it is asking people to view it and then treat it as such.
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- We'll be worse than Vanuatu: www.rnz.co.nz/internationa...
- Worse than nauru (a blatantly corrupt government suspending its critics) www.rnz.co.nz/internationa...
- 21 days is long enough for a Parliament-in-Exile under the Pōhutukawa trees or some similar level of shenanigans
- Pretty much asking for it. Invite Māori MPs to discuss issues of interest to Māori, and create an agenda for change
- Three Te Pāti Māori MPs to be suspended by NZ Parliament Privileges Committee over haka against #TreatyPrinciples Bill. More details to come. Yet another case where calling out racism and corrupt conduct is treated more harshly than conduct itself. #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
- I guess an important question here is "for how long"? Suspended for a day is well, whatever, sure, you've all got big dicks. Any longer and it gets into real problems of denying people representation (and undermining the legitimacy of parliament)
- National using its kangaroo court to kick Māori representatives out of parliament and strip them of their vote in retaliation for objecting to racist policies is certainly A Look.
- Its unclear from this whether the IPCA is investigating "the way police handled allegations made against... McSkimming" because the police tried not to investigate one of their own, or because they did and McSkimming complained about it www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
