Press Release – New Zealand Police
Be the change, don’t sit back and wait for the Government to fix race relations in Aotearoa, was the message from Lucia-Tui Bernards, a Year 12 student from Tawa College who today won this year’s Race Unity Speech Awards.
In an inspiring and heartfelt speech, Lucia-Tui called for all secondary schools to have a race relations strategy, as well as a race relations youth council to ensure the voices of ethnic minorities are heard.
Race relations youth ambassadors would suggest policies to decision-makers and government agencies from a youth perspective.
Chief judge NZ Police Deputy Commissioner Wally Haumaha says Lucia-Tui’s speech was fantastic.
Be the change, don't sit back and wait for the Government to fix race relations in Aotearoa, was the message from Lucia-Tui Bernards, a Year 12 student.
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Counties Manukau DHB has been given priority for vaccine access, but those on the wrong side of the train tracks will miss out.
Thousands of migrants should be bumped up the Covid-19 vaccine queue so they can return to their home countries, an umbrella group for ethnic communities says. The New Zealand Federation of Multicultural Councils, a non-government organisation, is asking the Ministry of Health to prioritise jabs for more than 10,000 people who are currently “stuck in New Zealand”. The federation published the request in an open letter to Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Health Minister Andrew Little on Wednesday.
Press Release – New Zealand Government Community events from Northland to Southland and from the West Coast to the Chatham Islands will draw people together to commemorate Waitangi Day, Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Hon Carmel Sepuloni said today. Thirty-four grants totalling …
Community events from Northland to Southland and from the West Coast to the Chatham Islands will draw people together to commemorate Waitangi Day, Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Hon Carmel Sepuloni said today.
“Thirty-four grants totalling $288,000 have gone to organisations throughout Aotearoa to support events commemorating the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and celebrate its importance to who we are as a nation,” Carmel Sepuloni said.