America may not be headed towards a future of citizens
tracked with implanted chips, pacified by drugs and tightly
segregated, but creating that Orwellian future now could be
the best way to prevent it, one activist group thinks.
Work testing sole parents on the domestic purposes benefit
(DPB) is an unjustifiable breach of human rights,
Attorney-General Chris Finlayson advised Parliament today.
What happens when a proposed piece of legislation is
judged by the attorney-general fundamentally to contravene
individual rights? Surely, he informs his Cabinet colleagues,
then proceeds to vote against it.
Justice Minister Simon Power heads to New York tomorrow to
report to the United Nations on how New Zealand's human
rights obligations are being managed.
