1The number of school suspensions is growing. The Government has launched a plan to deal with it. Does it address the core issues about why young Maori men are disproportionately represented among school suspension statistics? Are other students likely to be disadvantaged by the plan?
2Treatment of NZ's mentally ill is again under scrutiny after a coroner's report into the deaths of Malcolm Beggs and Lauchlan Jones in 1999. Should he have been told about Jones' mental state? The patient's right to privacy versus the public's right to know.