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The comments by NZ First's deputy leader have been called 'racist'.
NZ First deputy leader and prominent Northlander Shane Jones has called for “severe jail terms” if necessary, for owners of dogs that become so aggressive, the minister says “should not continue to exist.”
His comments follow the third death of a person by dogs in Northland in the past four years.
A digitally fluent, politically literate Māori generation is reshaping power in real time – and Labour must decide whether it can keep up. If you’re like me and anticipating the next election, you might also be asking who is truly fit to lead Māori now. I sit on the cusp of the millennial and gen Z generations – young enough to feel the energy of what’s shifting – but old enough to recognise what is no longer working.
NZ moves to relax deep-sea coral rules, following breaches by a trawler owned by a donor connected to Fisheries Minister Shane Jones.
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