Do we know yet why the UN person, got flown in from Fiji but not – for example – the two child in this report yesterday? I may have missed updates – but who was the UN person? Why have they been regarded as being more important than the rest of that nation’s wonderful people?

11 deaths in Fiji (RNZ yesterday)

Two children are among 11 people who have died from Covid-19 in Fiji, reports RNZ.

The Government also confirmed 205 new cases for the 24 hours to 8am on Friday.

That compares with 423 cases and six deaths the previous day.

Health Secretary Dr James Fong said the children’s deaths showed a new picture of how the virus is spreading in the community.

“The death of a child is always terrible and sadly Covid-19 does not discriminate. Whilst we know children are at significantly lower risk of suffering severe Covid, unfortunately as we continue to see the virus spread in our community, we will see children being infected and some tragically dying from the virus.

“This is why I cannot reinforce enough that while Covid-19 vaccines are critically important, we must all continue to practise other Covid safety measures if we want to see a drop in cases in our community.

“This means wearing a mask properly, keeping a physical distance from others outside our household, washing our hands regularly and avoiding crowds.

“Without these measures and high levels of vaccination coverage, we can expect to see Covid continue to spread in our communities and find those who are most vulnerable.”

Unfortunately, Dr Fong said the situation in the Western Division was getting worse.

He said they were seeing an intensifying outbreak in the west.

He said while there was drop in infections in the past 24 hours, they were concerned at the location of these cases.

“We are now managing outbreaks in multiple locations across Fiji, including in some remote areas with limited healthcare infrastructure.” – RNZ

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The Herald reports:

There were 82 new Covid community cases announced today, and one in MIQ, bringing the total number of cases in the Delta outbreak to 429. The total number of community cases in Auckland is now 415, with 14 in Wellington.

Hendy said today’s case numbers were “discouraging”.

“Obviously we would like to see these numbers start to come down.”

However, there was some good news.

“It does seem like the growth in cases is coming from known clusters – that is a positive.

“While it is still in known clusters, you can’t say it’s out of control.”

He said an uncontrolled outbreak would see cases double every one or two days, which was not the case with this outbreak.

Hendy said tightening restrictions could even include thinking about “selectively closing supermarkets” and other essential businesses.

Everytime someone says we must follow the advice of scientists, I think I will remind them of this advice that we should fight Covid by making it illegal for people to be able to buy food.

The August 2021 Roy Morgan is out.

Party Vote

• Labour 39.5% (nc from July)
• National 25.0% (-4.0%)
• Greens 12.0% (+2.0%)
• ACT 13.0% (nc)
• Maori 2.5% (nc)

Seats

• Labour 51 (-14 from election)
• National 33 (nc)
• Greens 16 (+6)
• ACT 17 (+7)
• Maori 3 (+1)

Governments

• Labour/Green 67/120
• National/ACT 50/120

Direction

• Right 52.5% (-3.0%)
• Wrong 37.5% (+3.0%)

Somewhat concerning that National has dropped 4% at a time when the Government has had so many problems and the net country direction has fallen 6%. We don’t know how much of this poll was done after the latest lockdown, so hard to judge what effect this has had until the poll after this one.

A large gender gap remains. National/ACT is 3% ahead of Labour/Greens with men but a massive 30.5% behind with women.

The Herald reports:

Afghan interpreters and other civilians who helped the New Zealand war effort say they feel “desperate, hopeless and terrified” after learning the evacuation mission had ended, leaving them and their families behind.

The Government is to blame twice over for this.

Firstly the Minister turned them down for visas as recently as two months ago.

Secondly it became apparent the two weeks ago that the situation in Afghanistan was becoming dire. Rather than have Cabinet meet urgently on Friday, they took the weekend off and left the decision to try and evacuate them for three days until Monday.

Ali*, who has worked with the NZDF and acquired a visa to be evacuated to New Zealand, said none of the group of 37 Afghan civilians who helped the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team (NZ PRT) in the Bamiyan Province – including interpreters, carpenters, electricians, mechanics, cleaners, and female kitchen workers – had made it out.

All they can do is hope the 2021 Taliban are less vicious than the 2001 Taliban.

The Herald reports:

The Government has given its clearest indication yet that congestion pricing could be coming to Auckland.

Transport Minister Michael Wood said he would look at all the recommendations from a select committee inquiry into congestion pricing in Auckland, which was published on Friday.

The committee recommended rolling out the charges in Auckland – it also recommended passing legislation to allow other cities in New Zealand to also use congestion pricing.

It puts the ball in the court of Transport Minister Michael Wood and the Government who can now decide what to do with it.

Congestion charging is a smart form of user pays. I’m in favour of it as I support user pays.

But to stop it becoming a revenue grab, the Government should abolish the Auckland fuel tax and replace it with congestion charging.

The Herald reports:

The response to New Zealand’s first Delta outbreak ran into problems because the Auckland and Waikato DHBs didn’t readily know which of their staff were vaccinated.

That “presented a barrier to rapidly and safely deploying staff to where they are needed most in the current Covid-19 response” and had been “problematic”, a Ministry of Health email obtained by the Herald reveals.

That’s stunning. How is this possible?

Yesterday the Herald revealed Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins had asked health officials for advice on making the Pfizer vaccine mandatory for health workers in contact with confirmed Covid-19 cases, including in hospitals.

Only asking for advice now? Shouldn’t this have been policy for months?

Has Ardern ever been over the Harbour Bridge?

Marc Daalder reports:

As the number of contacts associated with the Delta outbreak skyrockets past 20,000, the system is struggling to cope.

As of Wednesday morning, less than two-thirds of the 20,363 known contacts had even been “formally contacted”. Just 62 percent had returned a test result. And the list of contacts was only expected to grow.

The target was for 90% or 95% of contacts to be contacted within 48 hours and we are well short.

The system appears to be bursting at the seams and the Government’s only response so far has been to shrug off criticism because this outbreak is bigger than what they had prepared for.

But that ignores four stark warnings that the Government has received over the past 18 months about the state of the contact tracing system. Each of these critical reviews found that the system would struggle to handle a medium-sized outbreak.

One of those reviews was by the now Associate Minister of Health.

The April 2020 review of the contact tracing system by Ayesha Verrall – then a University of Otago epidemiologist, now a Labour MP and Associate Minister of Health with responsibility for public health – recommended the system be able to trace the contacts of 1000 new cases a day. This was one of just three “critical” findings in Verrall’s rapid audit.

Verrall was operating off of British research at the time, which found each case had an average of 36 contacts. She was in essence calling for the system to be able to trace as many as 36,000 contacts each day, envisioning how contact tracing might cope with a large-scale outbreak if elimination failed.

So they’ve had 18 months, and are not even close. The system can’t even cope with 60 new cases a day let alone 1,000.

Michael Reddell has broken down the vaccination rates by age, and they are sobering:

• 90+ years old – only 62% fully vaccinated
• 80 – 89 year olds – only 62% fully vaccinated vs 97% in England
• 70 – 79 year olds – only 61% fully vaccinated vs 98% in England
• 65+ – only 61% fully vaccinated vs 97% in England
• 50 – 64 – only 28% fully vaccinated vs 95% in England
• 30 – 49 – only 16% fully vaccinated vs 85% in England

All of the figures are dismal, but especially for those over 70. How can 30% of the most vulnerable still not be fully vaccinated?

Stuff reports:

Labour Party advertising delivered in breach of lockdown restrictions has appeared in the Prime Minister’s own Auckland electorate.

It is the fourth such delivery of party material reported to Stuff during lockdown restrictions.

The Labour Party says the deliveries are isolated incidents and the work of volunteers.

The latest delivery to emerge happened in Dorset St, Westmere, in the Mt Albert electorate held by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

It follows reports of similar deliveries in Christchurch, Tauranga and in Auckland’s Ellerslie.

If these really are isolated incidents, then the only conclusion one can make is that Labour volunteers are pathologically stupid.

I mean we are told a dozen times a day that you can’t leave your home except for exercise, testing/vaccine or purchasing essential supplies.

But four different Labour volunteers all thought that delivering pamphlets around their neighbourhood was allowed.

National has laid out what its plan or strategy would be for vaccinations, if it were Government. The summary:

1. Urgently vaccinate all frontline workers including supermarket staff, healthcare workers and Police (only 40% vaccinated).
2. Vaccinate the vectors. As two thirds of cases are under 30, open up vaccinations to them as they are most likely to spread it.
3. Increase daily vaccinations to 100,000 by using more GPs and pharmacists as only 12 pharmacists in Auckland are being used.
4. Order vaccine boosters immediately
5. Introduce a vaccine passport for international travel so that NZers wanting to travel overseas can easily prove they have been vaccinated.

A good article at the University of Alabama:

In his nearly 30 years studying vaccines, Paul Goepfert, M.D., director of the Alabama Vaccine Research Clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has never seen any vaccine as effective as the three COVID vaccines — from Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson — currently available in the United States. 

“A 90 percent decrease in risk of infections, and 94 percent effectiveness against hospitalization for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines is fantastic,” he said. 

Yep. I’ve had my first shot and can’t wait for my second, which is booked in for late September.

But what makes vaccine experts such as Goepfert confident that COVID vaccines are safe in the long term? …

Vaccines are eliminated quickly

Unlike many medications, which are taken daily, vaccines are generally one-and-done. Medicines you take every day can cause side effects that reveal themselves over time, including long-term problems as levels of the drug build up in the body over months and years. 

“Vaccines are just designed to deliver a payload and then are quickly eliminated by the body,” Goepfert said. “This is particularly true of the mRNA vaccines. mRNA degrades incredibly rapidly. You wouldn’t expect any of these vaccines to have any long-term side effects. And in fact, this has never occurred with any vaccine.”

So the vaccine is in and out.

Vaccine side effects show up within weeks if at all That is not to say that there have never been safety issues with vaccines. But in each instance, these have appeared soon after widespread use of the vaccine began. 

“The side effects that we see occur early on, and that’s it,” Goepfert said. “In virtually all cases, vaccine side effects are seen within the first two months after rollout.”

And we’ve had people taking these for nine months now.

As of June 12, 2021, more than 2.33 billion COVID vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, according to the New York Times vaccinations tracker. 

So we’ve now got data on even the rarest side effects, the 1 in 100,000 ones. It is unlikely that there are any further ones out there.

At some stage NZ will open its borders and Covid-19 will come in. If you choose not to be vaccinated, then your risk of serious harm from it is far far greater than any adverse reaction to the vaccine.

John McWhorter writes at the NYT:

The University of Wisconsin has apparently done Black people a favor. It lifted away a rock.

It was a big one, 42 tons, and at least some Black students thought of it as a symbol of bigotry. Because, you see, 96 years ago, when the rock was placed where it was until just now, someone in a local newspaper called it — brace yourself — a “niggerhead.”

That didn’t settle in as a permanent nasty local moniker for the rock. It was just something some cigar-chomping scribbler wrote in 1925. But still, the Wisconsin Black Student Union, making one of the kinds of demands such groups started pushing with especial fervor last year, insisted that the rock be taken away, with the backing of the school’s Indigenous student organization.

This is almost beyond parody. Becomes 96 years ago a local newspaper used the n word in reference to the rock, the woke activists demanded it be taken away.

There is no limit to their ability to take fake offence at everything.

If the presence of that rock actually makes some people desperately uncomfortable, they need counseling. And as such, we can be quite sure that these students were acting. Few can miss that there is a performative aspect in the claim that college campuses, perhaps the most diligently antiracism spaces on the planet, are seething with bigotry. The Wisconsin rock episode was a textbook demonstration of the difference between sincere activism and playacting, out of a desire to join the civil rights struggle in a time when the problems are so much more abstract than they once were.

I’d say anyone upset by the rock should be in an asylum.

The true fault here lies with the school’s administration, whose deer tails popped up as they bolted into the forest, out of a fear of going against the commandments of what we today call antiracism, which apparently includes treating Black people as simpletons and thinking of it as reckoning.

True wokeness would have been to awaken to the tricky but urgent civic responsibility of, when necessary, calling out Black people on nonsense. Yes, even Black people can be wrong. As the Black professor Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law puts it in his upcoming “Say It Loud!”: “Blacks, too, have flaws, sometimes glaringly so. These weaknesses may be the consequence of racist mistreatment. But they are weaknesses nonetheless.” To pretend this is never the case where racism is concerned is not to reckon but to dehumanize.

Yep the university administrators are cowards.

The headline on the WCC website is:

Wellington performs well in survey and safe city index

This headline is so far from reality that it is delusional.

Here’s some of the data from their annual survey of residents:

• Wellington being a great place to live, work and play has dropped from 91% to 76%
• A sense of pride in Wellington has dropped from 82% to 60%
• Wellington city centre as lively and attractive has dropped from 80% in 2019 to 47%
• Satisfaction with Council decision making has dropped from 30% to 16%
• Council makes decisions in best interests of the city dropped from 40% in 2019 to 17%
• Those who feel safe in CBD after dark down from 71% to 57%
• WCC has right balance between preserving character and allowing development down from 48% in 2019 to 21%
• Transport system allows easy access to city down from 64% in 2018 to 50%
• Stormwater management satisfaction down from 62% in 2018 to 36%

These appalling results are not just about the Mayor. It reflects on the Council as a whole.

The questions Councillors should be asking is what changes are they willing to make to turn this decline around.

Stuff reports:

A resident in a third New Zealand city has reported receiving Labour Party political advertising during the alert level 4 lockdown.

The party has distanced itself from the deliveries, which are in breach of level 4 rules, blaming volunteers who didn’t get the message to stop the drops during lockdown.

The Labour-branded flyers bear images of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and heap praise on the Government’s Covid recovery, including its vaccination roll-out, widely criticised for its slow pace.

Stuff has previously reported on pamphlet deliveries in Christchurch near the start of the latest lockdown and in Auckland’s Ellerslie on Sunday and Monday.

Surely it is there strikes and you’re out.

Why have the Police not demanded Labour identify the people responsible. There is no way they won’t know which streets are allocated to which party member, as this is essential to stop duplications.

Consider the total disinterest from the Police in this repeat offender, to this case reported by the Herald:

Police want to know about anti-vaccination and Covid-19 misinformation that has arrived in letterboxes, saying it appears to be a breach of the Health Order limiting movement to “essential personal travel”.

It follows a Herald report that pamphlets produced by the Voices for Freedom group had been delivered to people in two Wellington suburbs.

Readers in Auckland have now come forward to say they have received the same flier.

One reader told the Herald “it upset me to receive and read that garbage” while another declared: “I was ropeable!”

Today, police said the pamphlet delivery during alert Level 4 “would likely be classed as non-essential personal movement”.

So if you breach the law to deliver anti-Government pamphlets the Police want to know all about it, but Labour Party members delivering pro-Government pamphlets are of no interest to them, despite happening in three different cities.

Both Labour and Voices for Freedom should be prosecuted for breaching the law.

My son is a professional fire-fighter. I won’t tell you where otherwise you may feel more nervous than necessary. One remarkable thing they learn in training is that if you want to put a fire out – you point the hose at the fire.

Yesterday National education spokesperson did the right thing by having an opinion piece in the NZH about our education system and the desperate need for change. He is dead right – I have been able to get up to date statistics for every high school in NZ on some key metrics (that I will publish in a couple of weeks). Things are a mix between approximately a third of schools consistently doing good things and a real crises for the rest.

A few of Goldsmith’s comments:

“Our goal must always be to educate Kiwis to succeed globally. That is the only way to maintain our way of life and high living standards over time.”

“There are four basics to education: The kids must be at school to learn; a world-class curriculum that, if mastered, enables Kiwis to foot it with the best in the world; great teachers, teaching subjects that they know well in classrooms that are fit for learning; and robust measurement of progress, so we know whether our kids are learning or not.”

“Specialist teachers are concerned about not being able to understand what is to be taught and why this approach is being taken at the expense of basic subject content.”

“On attendance; no excuses. We’ve allowed a culture of excuses to develop for truancy. This has to stop. All schools should submit their attendance data weekly and it should be publicly available.”

“On curriculum, we’ll have to go back to the drawing board to rebuild a globally first-class curriculum.”

“We must insist on robust achievement in the basics of maths, science and literacy for all starting teachers, and give teachers access to better teaching materials so they and their schools spend less time reinventing the wheel. We should allow principals to reward great teachers.”

“We must insist on standardised external assessment at key points of our children’s education, so parents and teachers know when to worry and so steps can be taken to address problems early in the piece.”

My Comments: The good, the bad and the opportunity.

Paul Goldsmith’s article could have been written by any National education lead in the last thirty years. The ideas are not wrong, it is just that there is so much more to it. It glosses over the areas of greatest need and is in danger of focussing on obvious outcomes (Parata’s major fault) when it is inputs that create success.

Goldsmith is accurate about the direction of the curriculum and that being an important facet in schools – along with the quality of teaching it and the need to incentive teachers in struggling schools and subjects/levels where teachers are hard to find. They also have to be GOOD – not just someone with a pulse. He is also right about attendance.

Goldsmith is way off base with the “four basics to education”. There is way more to it that that. The first five years of a child’s life are absolutely crucial. As David Eagleman says in his superb book; The Brain: The Story of You:

“If developing brains are not given the proper, “expected environment – one in which a child is nurtured and looked after – the brain will struggle to develop normally. Without an environment with emotional care and cognitive stimulation, the human brain cannot develop normally. So we can add early life development to his “four basics of education.” The first five years of a child’s life are beyond crucial (I would add to that the gestation period). That takes us to five factors.

PISA studies showed NZ schools have the highest rates of bullying in the world. No child can learn well if anxious/scared. We also have schools full of micro-aggressions from low EQ teachers who use volume and put-downs to cower students into the appearance of compliance (we have all had them … I told mine to get F&*$#d … which probably didn’t help). Often students perspectives are belittled or ignored. If you want attendance students need to fell welcome. Schools being positive, safe, open-thinking and relational needs to be added to the four basics (now at the square root of 36).

Students need to be at the centre of the delivery for a school (note – this is not the same as “student led learning”). This means that the encouraged subject pathways need to be aspirational and dedicated towards the best outcomes for the child – not butt & reputation covering for the school through soft credits. Students also need to have a sense of purpose and schools need to be open to discussing the big questions in life; e.g. meaning. In the data, you will see soon that, on average, faith based schools do very well. I do not agree with “religion” being imposed – but the cards need to be on the table – myopically applying atheism or assuming lack of interest in life philosophies does not help. Being constantly told you are a cosmic accident and the world is going to end soon is both debatable and unhelpful. Adding aspiration and purpose takes the list to seven.

In New Zealand only 82% of students are staying at school (retention) until they are 17 years old. In the schools with high external results retention is in the 90s. Retention – with purposeful courses – is an eighth strand.

A major determinant of a student’s education outcomes is those of their parent(s). That will take more than a generation to change. The practical and effective alternative is to have parents fully engaged with the school and informed/educated themselves as adults. I have seen it in action and it would work as Goldsmith’s ninth strand.

The tenth strand is that extra-resourcing must be targeted accurately. People note that the decile system is blunt. It is not so much blunt as wildly underfunded and the Labour alternative significantly lacks transparency. Two aspects make up the tenth strand; firstly Decile 1- 3 schools need to be significantly funded at a lower student teacher ratio, with for Decile 4 – 7 also above deciles 8 – 10. Schools need to be expertly, and positively supported with business managers, and be able to justify – on student progress – the spends. High decile schools with poor metrics need to be as accountable as any other. Children who are neuro diverse at any decile level need full support.

(Please note – there is a major 11^th and 12^th strands are school leadership and the Ministry of Education. More to come on that in coming weeks. But let’s just say – the Ministry of Education make the MOH look stellar. )

In any area but Covid Labour are asleep and lack interest. This is the greatest opportunity I have seen in the last 30 years for an opposition party to propose wonderful education improvements in the dyed-in-the wool Labour electorates. If doing good is not enough, in and of itself, it will win votes.

• Therefore; broad – additional – solutions (point the hose at the fire) for Paul Goldsmith/National  are:Have a comprehensive and monitored/incentive/resourced parents as first (and most important) teachers programme. This is HUGE!!

• Super-fund the decile 1-3 schools and provide Principals in those schools with a Business Manager to take care of resourcing, contracts, etc – allowing them to fully focus on academics and student/family engagement. Provide fully, accurately, and quickly for students with diverse learning needs.

• Have incentives and very good course structures to have students attend always and also to have them stay in school for longer.

• Work hard on all school environments being safe, stimulating and generating aspiration and a sense of purpose.

Goldsmith needs to look hard at the students/schools that are failing, and why, and accurately put of the fire – then rebuild. It is possible.

Craig McCulloch at Radio NZ writes:

Monday’s media conference contained a self-evident yet sobering admission: many of those caught in the Delta outbreak were not vaccinated as they were not yet eligible.

The Ministry of Health later confirmed just three of the 107 people who had so far tested positive for Covid-19 were double jabbed; 14 had received one dose.

Yep just 3% of those infected had been fully vaccinated.

Since last week’s Delta incursion, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been unapologetic and dismissive of any criticism of the government’s vaccination campaign.

Ardern has batted away questions by claiming a higher immunisation rate would not have saved New Zealand from lockdown. That may well be the case, but it will come as cold comfort to those individuals cooped up in Jet Park with Covid-19.

As the prime minister herself acknowledged, a “large number” of them were ineligible to be vaccinated, denied the defence which could have protected them from the virus or at least its worst effects.

We are probably the only OECD country that hasn’t made the Covid-19 vaccine available to all adults yet.

New Zealand’s vaccination programme has been staggeringly slow by international standards, among the last in the developed world.

Not among the last. It is the last.

The sluggish pace is in part due to deliberate decisions by the government.

Given the country’s then-Covid-free status, ministers chose not to follow other countries in rushing the vaccine approval processes, instead allowing regulator Medsafe to carry out a months-long rigorous assessment.

Mistake 1. The thought that Medsafe would come to a different conclusion to the FDA and European regulators is farcical.

Most countries are using a wide portfolio of vaccines but in March New Zealand decided to go all in on Pfizer, choosing to inoculate everybody with the same vaccine based on its strong performance and fewer side-effects.

As a result, the government declined deliveries from other suppliers earlier this year. That too has meant a slower rollout.

Mistake 2. We should have taken up orders from all of them. Sure Pfizer is arguably marginally better but would you rather have an 85% effective vaccine in say April or a 87% effective vaccine in October?

In April, Ardern told Parliament New Zealand’s delivery schedule was slower than other countries’ as its people were “not dying while they wait”.

The suggestion is that Pfizer deemed countries like New Zealand and Australia lower priority due to their earlier success in defeating Covid-19. That might also explain why Australia has grappled with similar supply problems.

That is one possibility. Another is that the government’s negotiators came late to the party, did a poor job and got a raw deal.

After all, the government did not sign supply agreements with Pfizer until October last year and then again in March. For comparison, the US and UK reached deals in May last year.

Mistake 3. Too slow.

For months, ministers have rationalised many of the decisions surrounding the vaccine rollout on the basis there was no Covid-19 in the community and so no need to act with undue haste.

That is no longer the case. Delta is here, and there are at least 107 New Zealanders who deserve more than a glib brush-off.

More than 107 now.

Stuff reports:

Another Labour Party volunteer has been busted delivering party advertising in breach of the alert level 4 restrictions.

On Sunday and Monday, residents in the Auckland suburb of Ellerslie opened their letterboxes to find Labour-branded pamphlets bearing a smiling image of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

The pamphlets were emblazoned with messages including “our recovery is working” and “securing New Zealand’s recovery”.

The deliveries, in the Maungakiekie electorate held by Labour’s Priyanca Radhakrishnan,​ are a breach of advice to stay at home during level 4.

They’re not a breach of advice, they’re a breach of the law.

The first time it happened, you would assume it was a mistake.

But to have it happen a second time, and five days into a Level 4 lockdown?

NewstalkZB reports:

The All Whites could be no more.

New Zealand Football (NZF) are contemplating dropping the All Whites moniker for the men’s national team.

The potential change is part of a wider process NZF is going through to ensure they are up to the mark when it comes to cultural inclusivity.

It comes on the back of the heightened worldwide awareness around racism and racial inequality, and the name’s potentially racist connotations, and RNZ understands the national body began gauging feedback on the potential change more than six months ago.

NZF chief executive Andrew Pragnell declined an interview, with the organisation instead issuing a short statement.

“As with many other national bodies, New Zealand Football is on a journey around cultural inclusivity and respecting the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Oh what a load of bollocks. Surely not even the most precious snowflake gets offended by the name All Whites?

Do they think All Blacks is racist also?

Do we need to change the name of the women’s cricket team from the White Ferns?