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Fa'anana Efeso Collins is the councillor for the Manukau ward.

Arming police is heavy-handed and ill-advised – and Māori and Pasifika will pay the price

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We know that implicit bias exists in our society. It exists in our workplaces, it exists in our schools, and exists when our police use guns, writes Fa’anana Efeso Collins, a former researcher in youth gangs and currently councillor for Manukau.  Earlier this year I went along to the Pasifika Youth Court as an observer. … Read more

Taxing the poor, to transport the rich

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If a fuel tax is the best way to fund Auckland’s development, Councillor Efeso Collins asks that the benefits be invested in the people the tax will affect most – those in his Manukau ward. My parents worked on factory floors at NZ Forest Products in Penrose, cleaning operating theatres of Middlemore Hospital, and driving … Read more