Yes Minister on bringing back national service

This bill will ram harms home. It won't make us safer. Please sign against it! Sign here: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/open… rnz.co.nz/news/political…

Abuse survivors and victims' families have waited too long for redress. The NZ govt, responsible for the most egregious violence, needs to make strong commitments...now! tinyurl.com/5n77ybvm

And tbh I don't want to hear anyone complaining about costs. There's not enough money in the world to repair what has been done, in our name

People Against Prisons Aotearoa "Boot camps are criminogenic. They create more crime, rather than reduce it. The kids ‘fall out’ tougher and quicker. The data on boot camps around the world demonstrate a similar searing picture of failure, and of high costs." says Prof. Prof Elizabeth Stanley newsroom.co.nz/2024/03/10/put…

NZ PM: "I don't care what you say about whether it [military style camp] does or doesn't work...we are, dammit, going to try something different" So, there is no care about evidence (inc. from our Royal Commission reports). And also no recognition that we've done it all before

Minister: "Sadly, the survey found more New Zealanders felt unsafe than the year prior, even if they weren’t a victim of a crime" Top tip: Political narratives are central to public understandings, so stop using 'law and order' as a political football rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

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Some words from me. It's a crime scene newsroom.co.nz/2024/07/24/the…

Clunk Are these militarised exercises care- and trauma-focused? Do they restore mana? Is this the best we can do? No No and No. Give them up. Give meaning to yesterday's words Christopher Luxon defends boot camps as 'very different' from abuse case study rnz.co.nz/news/political…

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newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/05/sen… Time for accountability

My latest article, on spatial governance and the everyday violence of the police wordview. ‘Seeing Like a Cop’: Police Perception in Spaces of Gender and Racial Criminalization academic.oup.com/bjc/article/do…

This is torture and it's happening here. newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/28/lif…