A yr’s delay in fixing hate crimes is unexplained

Mark Daalder is a Wellington-based senior political reporter who covers Covid-19, local weather change, power, major industries, know-how and the far proper. Twitter: @marcdaalder.

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The Royal Fee really useful that hate crime legal guidelines be rewritten in December 2020, nevertheless it took greater than a yr for the stories to be submitted to ministers, Mark Dalder stated.

Whereas the federal government pushed ahead with controversial proposals to vary hate speech legal guidelines final yr, reform associated to hate crime laws was left apart.