NOTE from Selwyn Manning: In correspondence after this live episode, government sector law specialist, Graeme Edgeler, wrote:
It’s a shame I missed the live-stream. I could have pointed out in real-time that Paul was inaccurate in claiming that the Royal Commission lacked the power to compel testimony. This is a power literally every government inquiry has in New Zealand. I think it may have previously been the case that the terms of reference of individual inquiries used to have to specify this power, but whether on not that is the case, since the Inquiries Act 2013 entered into force, this has not been true. It is a power all government inquiries have under section 23 of the Inquiries Act.
Article – Socialist Equality Group Tom Peters On Tuesday, New Zealands Labour Party government released a 792-page report from the royal commission of inquiry into the March 15, 2019 Christchurch terror attack. Fifty-one people, including young children, were killed and dozens …
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On Tuesday, New Zealand’s Labour Party government released a 792-page report from the royal commission of inquiry into the March 15, 2019 Christchurch terror attack. Fifty-one people, including young children, were killed and dozens injured in mass shootings at two mosques by fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant.
The inquiry was ostensibly set up to investigate what public sector agencies, including the police and spy agencies, knew about Tarrant’s activities prior to the attack, and whether it could have been prevented.
Tom Peters On Tuesday, New Zealand’s Labour Party government released a 792-page report from the royal commission of inquiry into the March 15, 2019 Christchurch terror attack. Fifty-one people, including young children, were killed and dozens .
Fifty-one people were killed in the Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15 last year. The GCSB spy base, about 20 kilometres outside Blenheim, was part of a network of facilities used by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, made up of agencies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivers a summary of the findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Terrorist Attack on Christchurch Mosques. (Video first published in December 2020) “They’ve always said that it protects us against terrorists but this is fairly clear that no, it doesn’t,” Horton said.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivers a summary of the findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Terrorist Attack on Christchurch Mosques. (Video first published in December 2020)
EXPLAINER: Natural hazards such as earthquakes, biosecurity intrusions like the Queensland fruit fly, and pandemics such as Covid-19 are obvious and known threats to New Zealanders. Domestic terrorism and violent extremism were less understood, before ripping into the public’s consciousness with the terror attack on March 15, 2019. But who was responsible for this ignorance? The Royal Commission into the March 15 terror attack, which released its report on Tuesday, said the lack of discussion about counter-terrorism, intelligence, and security came from the top.