Former refugees in Dunedin are having trouble gaining access to funded counselling, and this has emerged as a “real hole” in their support system, a Dunedin GP says.

Since Dunedin became a refugee centre last April, about 130 have arrived. The city will receive about 175 former refugees every year. So far, almost all are from Syria.

Dr Prue Murdoch, of Amity Health Centre, said she had tried to refer refugees for counselling but they had not met criteria. (more…)

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Companies should be more transparent when it comes to cultural diversity at the highest level, a prominent employment lawyer says.

Listed companies must provide a breakdown to NZX of the number of male and female directors and officers.

However, they have no such requirement for cultural diversity.

Employment lawyer Mai Chen, who sits on BNZ’s board, said the makeup of a company should reflect its customer base.

“If we’re getting transparency around gender we should definitely be getting it around ethnicity - it is important,” she said.

“If you’ve got a company that is servicing New Zealanders, it would look very odd if they had almost no Maori, Pacific, or Asian people in positions of leadership.”

RNZ this week revealed a list of 45 companies without any female directors in 2016.

The argument that there were not enough suitable female candidates was plainly false, Ms Chen said.

“I know there has been some progress made, but that’s more in the public rather than private sector.”

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/322776/lawyer-urges-transparency-on-board-diversity

Andrea Hamblin is a reporter for the Herald Sun. Her tweet below indicates that the police are not so much as investigating the car attack that killed at least three people and wounded many more in Melbourne as they are actively trying to cover up evidence that it was a jihad attack. They don’t want people to think this was jihad, and are working to conceal evidence that it was.

What do they think this denial will get them? Do they think it will please and pacify Muslims in Australia, such that there will be no more jihad attacks of this kind? If so, they’re in for a rude awakening. Or do they have some agenda that involves wanting to keep Australians ignorant and complacent about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat? If so, what is that agenda? Globalist internationalism requiring national suicide? Can a better face be put on this?

href=”https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/01/australia-police-ask-reporter-to-take-down-video-of-witness-saying-car-attacker-was-screaming-allahu-akbar”>https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/01/australia-police-ask-reporter-to-take-down-video-of-witness-saying-car-attacker-was-screaming-allahu-akbar

A Fijian national working as a chef in New Zealand has been sentenced to 21 months’ imprisonment for immigration fraud.

Bimal Roy Prasad was sentenced at Manukau District Court on December 22, 2016 on five charges under the Immigration Acts 1987 and 2009 relating to providing false and misleading information on visa applications to an immigration officer and producing a visitor visa knowing it to have been obtained fraudulently.

Immigration New Zealand (INZ) Assistant General Manager Peter Devoy said that Prasad has been in New Zealand on various visas since June 2010.

“In each visa application, he had declared that he had no character issues or been deported from any country. However, INZ received information in February 2016 that Prasad had been deported from the United States to Fiji using a different identity,” Mr Devoy said.

He said that INZ received confirmation from the American authorities in March that the defendant’s fingerprints matched those for an individual by the name of Bimal Autar, who was deported from the US for aggravated felony in 2006.

“Prasad admitted the charges when the information was put to him and said he did it to hide his criminal history from us. We will not tolerate anyone committing immigration fraud,” Mr Devoy said.

From Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

http://www.indiannewslink.co.nz/chef-imprisoned-for-immigration-fraud/