Pierre van Heerden's career in Aotearoa New Zealand's food industry reads like our monopoly brands and services greatest hits - which I guess either makes him the obvious choice for New Zealand's first Grocery Commissioner, or completely inappropriate. ?
In the coverage of the Dawn Raids some aspects of the realities do not figure. Logically we cannot avoid the facts and their implications.
1 The report on the current and recent Immigration Department practices is called for and reporting to Governments MBIE Business Innovation and Enterprises. So government reviewing and evaluating its practice.
2 the report includes Information that the year of the apology there were 6 overstayer visits out of hours (ie 8am - 6pm) which required special investigation and approval. Considering that there was such full negotiations with Pasifika Leaders concerning the Apology it was unlikely that the 6 visits were regarded as breach of faith - unless they were unaware.
3 Forward to the time the report is released and being considered by officials and members of cabinet. There were 20 out of hours visits in 2022/2023. Were they dawn - meaning household still asleep - journalists may not have checked.
4 To suggest the Apology was not in good faith or even Tokenism is not take in that the apology demanded that the Prime Minister be publicly culturally shamed and demeaned. That that was accepted and voluntarily submitted to is not Tokenism.
There is work to do. The difficult matter of tracking illegal overstayers and having them answer for their crime - deporting them possibly - requires treating them with humanity justice and dignity. Since a Government report revealed that there are still improvements to be made we can be thankful to live in New Zealand.
Pierre van Heerden's career in Aotearoa New Zealand's food industry reads like our monopoly brands and services greatest hits - which I guess either makes him the obvious choice for New Zealand's first Grocery Commissioner, or completely inappropriate. ?
In the coverage of the Dawn Raids some aspects of the realities do not figure. Logically we cannot avoid the facts and their implications.
1 The report on the current and recent Immigration Department practices is called for and reporting to Governments MBIE Business Innovation and Enterprises. So government reviewing and evaluating its practice.
2 the report includes Information that the year of the apology there were 6 overstayer visits out of hours (ie 8am - 6pm) which required special investigation and approval. Considering that there was such full negotiations with Pasifika Leaders concerning the Apology it was unlikely that the 6 visits were regarded as breach of faith - unless they were unaware.
3 Forward to the time the report is released and being considered by officials and members of cabinet. There were 20 out of hours visits in 2022/2023. Were they dawn - meaning household still asleep - journalists may not have checked.
4 To suggest the Apology was not in good faith or even Tokenism is not take in that the apology demanded that the Prime Minister be publicly culturally shamed and demeaned. That that was accepted and voluntarily submitted to is not Tokenism.
There is work to do. The difficult matter of tracking illegal overstayers and having them answer for their crime - deporting them possibly - requires treating them with humanity justice and dignity. Since a Government report revealed that there are still improvements to be made we can be thankful to live in New Zealand.