The answer to that question, obviously, isn’t the Independent Police Complaints Authority……
‘Shamed cop given plum London job
The Dominion Post has a copy of the secret September 2009 IPCA report into a string of complaints laid by former policeman Dave White about the 2005 arrest of Mrs Teokotai, his mother-in-law.
The IPCA did not make public its findings because the authority deemed them not of sufficient public interest.’                                     source

This is no isolated case and there’s a growing perception that the police and judiciary in this country are a law unto themselves, or at least not as accountable as we serfs. High-ranking public servants who misbehave are almost always simply shuffled sideways into another lucrative position after a suitable time has elapsed and this is trumpeted as “disciplinary action”. When the public is allowed to know anything at all, that is. The perception of NZ as a country almost free of corruption is utterly wrong -it’s just that the ruling bureaucratic class and the media have a generally cozy relationship and the public is too damn lazy and apathetic to care.

The Australian Immigration Department is loosening health restrictions to allow migrant workers with chronic conditions to enter Australia, including those with HIV/AIDS.
With this change, Australia hopes to attract skilled migrant workers, who otherwise would have been denied a visa for health-related reasons.

via Andrew Bolt

“….This time we stand and fight. If the Republican Party is incapable of representing the conservative agenda in Congress then it is time to replace the GOP with a new political party that will.”
Texas Fred:
“The GOP is setting the Conservatives and the TEA Party up. The GOP fully plans to nullify any and all gains that Conservatives and TEA Party candidates make. The inroads we have all worked so hard for are already being written off by the GOP and they are prepared to plow us under as soon as the GOP has their hands on the gavel.” (bold mine)

‘The Cincinnati Public Schools system “expressly denies” that it did anything wrong when it allowed a group of high school students to be bused during school hours to the Board of Elections, to be shown sample ballots that included only Democrats, and then to vote.
And it promises never to do it again.’

It’s worth around a million dollars, give or take a half mil..that’s one 260th of the money wasted on maori language programs for the year. Cheap at twice the price.
A NZ judge has just resigned in very murky circumstances. Resigned with a golden handshake,  to save the government and the judiciary the embarrassment of further enquiries into his conduct.
And David Farrar of Kiwiblog thinks this is a good outcome because it will save the taxpayer money!
What price integrity? Not very high, it seems.

From a commenter in Eternity Road:

‘Also, Fox news is starting to bring up the stuff about donations during Obama’s election campaign. It turns out that $33,000 was donated from Gaza which is illegal. Obama says he’s paid it back, but records show he hasn’t. Someone in Gaza also bought heaps of Obama T-shirts to resell over there. The Obama camp said they didn’t know, because where it asks for “State”, it says “GA”, which they claim they thought was Georgia and not GAZA.
However, they knew enough to send the t-shirts to the correct address in Gaza, the Middle East, and have them reach there OK.
A lot of this was discovered by Pamela Geller, who had volunteers go through every donation document of both candidates. It’s all in her MUST-READ book, ‘The Last American Presidency’. I am reading it now (bought the iPhone/Kindle edition from Amazon). As I say, a MUST READ. She details all of the people associated with Obama on his rise – who helped and supported him – and who he associates with now. Many are Communists and some associated with Marxist groups (not kidding), and pro-Palestinian groups.
Posted by Fletch on 10/21/2010 at 04:16 AM | Comment#: 14023

Why isn’t the RNC on to this and raising merry hell?

‘Troops chafe at restrictive rules of engagement, talks with Taliban

KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — To the U.S. Army soldiers and Marines serving here, some things seem so obviously true that they are beyond debate. Among those perceived truths: The restrictive rules of engagement that they have to fight under have made serving in combat far more dangerous for them, while allowing the Taliban to return to a position of strength.
“If they use rockets to hit the [forward operating base] we can’t shoot back because they were within 500 meters of the village. If they shoot at us and drop their weapon in the process we can’t shoot back,” said Spc. Charles Brooks, 26, a U.S. Army medic with 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, in Zabul province
Word had come down the morning Brooks spoke to this reporter that watch towers surrounding the base were going to be dismantled because Afghan village elders, some sympathetic to the Taliban, complained they were invading their village privacy. “We have to take down our towers because it offends them and now the Taliban can set up mortars and we can’t see them,” Brooks added, with disgust.

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‘An old postcard has revealed skeletons under one of the country’s most popular beaches – and a leading Maori academic says proposed legislation would restrict access to similar wahi tapu sites all around the coast.
The 1911 postcard, put up for sale on Trade Me, shows Mt Maunganui’s main beach littered with human bones uncovered by a storm.
Auckland University head of Maori Studies Margaret Mutu said wherever bodies were buried, the Government’s proposed replacement for the controversial Foreshore and Seabed Act lets presiding iwi restrict access….’

My question is this: How hard will it be for maori to “find” old bones at any beach in the country?

Amy Brooke:
‘Time to abolish the unacceptably partisan Waitangi Tribunal
To Chris Finlayson, Minister of Treaty Negotiations:
I have just finished researching and writing the first draft of an article looking at the chequered history of the Waitangi Tribunal and its damaging involvement in the New Zealand political scene since its controversial inception.
Far from being an impartial objective, judicial body, the tribunal has included over the years activist part-Maori (part-Maori only, given that all Maori now apparently have an additional genetic background), some of whom have actually had an involvement with the tribes whose claims they are meant to impartially assess when making recommendations to government!
My conclusion, having discovered some quite staggering facts, is that it is high time to the Waitangi Tribunal to be disbanded, and for the legitimacy of activist, neo-tribal, part-Maori claims to be decided by the courts….’

The whole thing  HERE