10 Dec 2025

Award winning criminal justice advocate's call to the next generation

From Nights, 9:25 pm on 10 December 2025

Tā Kim Workman has spent his career challenging systemic bias in policing and prisons, leading research into fairness in the police, pioneering pro-social programmes in prison and advocating for vulnerable young people and abuse survivors.

In a speech accepting the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology’s Distinguished Criminologist award earlier this month, Ta Kim urged us all to imagine a nation that measures itself by how it treats the least, the lost and the lonely.  

The former New Zealander of the Year is now calling on the next generation to take up the mantle of justice reform. He joins Emile Donovan.

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