Human Rights Commission

Yesterday we had the Cry Baby of the Week, Claire Nathan, bleating because Air New Zealand didn’t want her and her tattoo to be working as a trolley dolly.

Today the Director of Human Rights Proceedings has copped a flogging in a similar story, which probably means the trolley dolly case will similarly fail despite the whining.

A spit roast catering company has been awarded $15,000 in costs against the Director of Human Rights Proceedings after winning the right to ask an employee to cover up her tattoos.

The award by the Human Rights Review Tribunal, comes 18 months after it ruled there was no direct discrimination to the employee, Claire Haupini.

Under the legislation the director is liable to pay the costs rather than Haupini, because the director represented her in the failed case against her former employer.  Read more »

Perhaps if they weren’t wasting so much tax-payers money fighting The Sensible Sentencing Trust they could afford do continue all this mysterious ‘proactive’ work in the community.

Staff at another Government funded agency have an axe hovering over their heads.

Around 15 percent of jobs at the Human Rights Commission are going, thanks to a cash shortfall and a freeze on funding until 2020.

The PSA’s Richard Wagstaff says the scale of job cuts has taken staff by surprise.

“And there’s also a suggestion that the head office could move from Auckland to Wellington and that again is a major concern for people who work in an organisation. You just can’t up and shift cities if you’ve got families and other connections. That’s a really tough decision to have to be made.”  Read more »

The District Court in Auckland today has taken the extra-judicial step of applying”Interim-Interim Name Suppression” on the details of a convicted pedophile who is going to war against the Sensible Sentencing Trust using taxpayer funds via the Privacy Commission.

The Taupo motelier continues to say he has name suppression despite a court minute that contradicts his claim. The Privacy Commission continues to stick up for pedophiles.

What is truly bizarre is you now have a lesser court applying a name suppression over a conviction that was entered in the High Court. Truth published this mans details in 2009, and again last week. In this weeks Truth the mayor of Taupo has his say on the matter. So far only Truth has published his details, the other media are cowards.

The Human Rights Tribunal has ordered that a convicted paedophile cannot be named while it hears an urgent application for an interim suppression order of his identity.

Chairman Roger Haines, QC, made the ruling today at Auckland District Court where the Human Rights Commission is seeking an interim name suppression order for the paedophile after his details were published on the Sensible Sentencing Trust’s online offender register.

The HRC claims the man’s details were suppressed following his conviction at trial in the mid-1990s.  Read more »

Helen Kelly has come out with a mean spirited and nasty press release about Jackie Blue’s appointment as Equal Opportunities Commissioner.

The appointment by Judith Collins of a current National MP as Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner is a direct political appointment and as such it risks undermining the integrity of this crucial national human rights role, says CTU President Helen Kelly.

It looks like she is also planning to uphold the Hipkins Standard. No former politicians or people associated with Labour will be appointed to any government body.

Helen Kelly says “Human Rights Commissioner roles are positions that need to be independent from direct government policy and influence. Jackie Blue is well respected on her advocacy on some women’s issues and we recognise and respect that but she has been a voting member of a Government that has set women’s issues back years with changes to pay equity initiatives, attacks on solo mothers, cuts to ECE services and other changes.  Her direct appointment from the Parliament and lack of experience and knowledge on human rights are serious issues.”  Read more »

The Sunday Star-Times is following Truth again, this time over the dirty pedophile running a Taupo motel that is described as “ the perfect choice for the whole family”.

We spoke to the pedophile earlier in the week so it is good to see Sunday Star-Times reporters buying Truth so they can follow up. We named the pedophile, we published his photo and we named his place of work.

Meanwhile the Sunday Star-Times does add a tiny bit more to the story, it appears he has lied to the Privacy Commission and the Human Rights Commission.

The serial paedophile at the centre of a name suppression stoush between the Human Rights Commission and the Sensible Sentencing Trust appears to have lied on oath about his job status and where he was living.

The man also lied about his identity when approached by the Sunday Star-Times last week.

The paedophile, who claims he has name suppression for sexually assaulting young girls but cannot produce a court record to prove it, denied he was the man in question when confronted at his workplace.  Read more »

The Human Rights Commission has successfully gone into bat for a Taupo pedophile who runs a “family friendly” motel, helping him get name suppression.

The man clams he has name suppression but he is wrong. In 2009 Truth published all his details including a photograph of him and this week have again published his details as he seeks to attack the Sensible Sentencing Trust by using the Privacy Commission and the Human Rights Proceedings.

Truth supports the efforts of the Sensible Sentencing Trust in protecting the rights of victims and we will assist them in raising funds to support them in fighting this silly legislation.

The Sensible Sentencing Trust has issued a press release:  Read more »

Wasn’t Robert Kee the person that Labour attacked Judith Collins over because he was supposedly her lap-dog? Well if he is her lap-dog then he is a slow-witted one in wanting to pursue the Sensible Sentencing Trust.

The Human Rights Commission plans to prosecute the Sensible Sentencing Trust for breaching a serial paedophile’s privacy.

Boo-fricking-hoo, perhaps he shouldn’t have had a 15 year history of fiddling with kids.

It is understood the man, jailed in 1995 for historic offences of committing indecent acts on two girl relatives aged 10 and 14, has already received a $15,000 payout from police.

The Sensible Sentencing Trust, which relies on public donations, has hit out at the prosecution, and refuses to apologise to the man, or pay him any compensation.  Read more »

What a tragedy.

A 10 year old weighs 71 kgs. That is the tragedy.

A 10-year-old Porirua boy has torn down his rugby posters and binned his All Blacks duvet cover after his local rugby club made him feel “sad and fat”.

Joshua Moe has been told he has to play in the under-13s this season because – at 71 kilograms – he is too heavy to play in his own age group. But Joshua fears he will get hurt playing with boys who are older than him.

“They’re allowed to stand on each other and push in the scrum in under-13s, and that’s scary,” he said.  Read more »

David Fisher is really scraping the barrel today with a massive beat up using a stolen photo provided by an alleged dog-napper to write a nothing story:

Truth reports:

The NZ Herald this morning launched an attack on Justice Minister Judith Collins and her husband David Wong-Tung using a photo taken at the funeral of Wong-Tung’s mother.

The story makes allegations that Collins appointed Robert Kee to the Human Rights Commission mainly because Collins’ husband once worked in the same multi-story office building as Kee and Collins also worked on another floor below. It is also alleged that sometime in the 90s they all had drinks together at DeBrett’s bar in the hub of the legal district, where presumably many, many other lawyers also drank.

The reporter who wrote the article, David Fisher, described the article on social media platform Twitter as “how a real newspaper works”.

Oh dear…was the photographer entitled to the photos?  Read more »

Judith Collins has appointed someone she can trust to a position, as much as you trust a criminal lawyer….instead of a flunky lefty recommended by bureaucrats…and boy have they got upset.

Justice Minister Judith Collins rejected the advice of an independent panel which recommended a woman lawyer for a top state service job and selected her own nominee, despite a plea from the Chief Human Rights Commissioner.

Ms Collins announced experienced Auckland barrister Robert Kee as the new Director of Human Rights Proceedings, an independent role within the Human Rights Commission, in mid-2012 after nominating him for the post.  Read more »