Parliament’s Justice Select Committee has finished hearing submissions on the highly publicised Gangs Legislation Amendment Bill. It aims to prohibit the wearing of gang patches in public places and restrict gangs from congregating in public, and it introduces gang non-association orders.
The many reviews into the response to Cyclone Gabrielle in February 2023 – the most recent at the end of April – have identified plenty of room for improvement. However, few, if any, could fault the actions of police officers at Muriwai the night the cyclone made landfall. CARLA AMOS reports.
I have been watching the recent policy announcement of the New Zealand Government on speed management with increasing alarm. There is a failure to recognise the link between mean travel speeds and road trauma rates.
Retired Auckland sergeant MIKE CORNELL has some sage advice for all Kiwi men regardless of age: Get your prostate checked. Prostate cancer is indiscriminate when it comes to age and it doesn’t always come with symptoms – something that Mike knows only too well.
As this column was being written, we were still in the last stages of the extremely frustrating pay round negotiation process. It is an understatement to say it has let down members when the constant delays have caused them unacceptable hardship, as you will see in our cover story.
