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.
Tense wait for University of Otago graduands
10 Dec, 2020 06:38 PM
4 minutes to read
Students and their family and friends outside the Dental School building. Photo / Christine O Connor
Otago Daily Times
Hundreds of Dunedin university graduands and their families continue to wait on tenterhooks for a decision on tomorrow s graduation ceremonies.
After it emerged yesterday that a security threat sent to the University of Otago earlier this week warned of a shooting, vice-chancellor Prof Harlene Hayne said the university continued to work closely with police and remained hopeful the two ceremonies would go ahead as planned.
The university would advise the more than 700 graduands affected by early this afternoon, Prof Hayne said.
Another grad ceremony cancelled as fallout from threat continues
10 Dec, 2020 09:57 PM
6 minutes to read
A student is comforted outside the Medical School building on Great King St. Photo / Christine O Connor
A student is comforted outside the Medical School building on Great King St. Photo / Christine O Connor
Otago Daily Times
The University of Otago has abandoned graduation ceremonies planned for tomorrow as the fallout from a threat that included a warning of a bombing and shooting continues.
Vice-chancellor Prof Harlene Hayne announced the decision to abandon the graduations this morning after yesterday saying she was hopeful they would go ahead.
More than 700 graduands were set to graduate tomorrow.
Friday, 11 December 2020, 10:20 am
For
an 800 page monster, the Royal Commission report into the
Christchurch shootings has proved to be a strangely
weightless affair. Everyone – the Police, the PM, the
security services – has apologised but (allegedly) no-one
did anything wrong. People lost their lives , but no-one
appears likely to lose their jobs. Atrocities like this must
be prevented in future but - according to the report -
nothing could have prevented this tragedy, in that pure luck
would have been our best and only hope of detecting the
terrorist before he struck. Which raises a question the
report didn’t address. Why should we spend well over a