Waatea 5th Estate – homelessness vs what the Politicians say

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Joining us tonight to discuss the reality of homelessness vs the rhetoric of politicians …

In studio, former homeless person who now works with rough sleepers, Darryl Mihaere

Chief Executive of homelessness charity Lifewise – Moira Lawler

Child Poverty Action Group spokesperson on housing – Frank Hogan

Former homeless person and now head of the Island Child Charitable Trust – Danielle Bergin

and on the phone live from the street a young homeless person, Rangi

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  1. What has this country come to?! Frightening. Rangi’s right the government has agendas, reality doesn’t come into it. Danielle’s so right Winz has become an impossible obstacle course foe most and deliberately so. This heartless, cruel government is deliberate in its evil.

  2. Frank is delusional when it comes to John key. John key is neither naive nor honourable and he has never kept his word in his 8 years of being Prime Minister. key hasn’t been misinformed, and he is just a bold faced compulsive liar, and that has been proven time and time again. People need to face the fact that John Key and his National government don’t give a stuff about NZ or its people, as its not part of their private agenda. It saddened and angered me that Frank, a person in a position that he holds, was still giving John key an out. Enough with the excuses, there are none.

    Sure there has been homelessness, but not at this scale, what is happening is unprecedented, and John key and his ministers are fully aware of it, but they don’t want to do anything about it, as it doesn’t serve their purpose to fix the issues that they have actively been fostering over the years. They are getting the picture that their arrogant lipservice is not cutting it anymore, but they do not care. There is one sure way to put the brakes on this madness, kick John Key and his National government out.

  3. National party policies and agendas have lead to the hardship of many, and sometimes even the death of New Zealand citizens. Are we ok with this? Sadly the writing was on the wall at first…but that helps no one. It’s time they left, for others to clean up their rotten mess.

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