Inequality has Kiwi families living in garages – Salvation Army

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Inequality is damaging New Zealand society, leaving families without access to affordable safe housing and with an inability to provide basic food and utilities, The Salvation Army says.

Reacting to the OXFAM report citing the income of the two richest New Zealanders as equivalent to the total income of the poorest 30 per cent, the Director of the Army’s Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit, Lieut-Colonel Ian Hutson, says, ‘Inequality of this type is not socially or economically healthy for New Zealand.

‘With the nation spending over $20 million dollars just on the supply of emergency housing—and The Salvation Army last year providing well over 50,000 food parcels last year—inequality and social justice is still a goal to be achieved in New Zealand.’

Hutson called for 2017 to be a year in which New Zealand takes better care of its most vulnerable citizens. ‘Addressing our wealth gap will be a step in the journey towards a more inclusive and socially just New Zealand.’

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  1. ” Inequality is damaging New Zealand society, … ”

    No ! Surely not? I don’t believe it. I never knew. I’m amazed AND surprised. How extraordinary! What next? Well, I never. Who knew huh? Surprise, surprise. Wonders never cease. Pour money into Universities and you get well worth it information. I’ll go to bed better informed. And here’s me thinking that those hungry, sick looking people living like mongrel dogs in a wealthy country’s gutters were there because they liked fresh air. Wha, noooo ! ? I thought that the ‘poor’ were simply missing the much admired psychopathy, narcissism, vanity and turbo-ego of the $-successful to succeed and be more and better and everything but not this ‘ inequality’ what’s it? Is there such a word as ‘ inequality’ anyway? I thought inequality was losing a micro race when I missed a gear change in my Maser’ while racing that Lambo’ about Devonport? Damned other fellow had longer arms. How buggeredly unequal? Yes, poor me…( Actual thing I saw happen, I swear to God. )

    Think of NZ/Aotearoa as a beautiful, hand made chest of drawers infested with borer. I say, squash the borer.

  2. Yep, and the borer here are foreign colonists in the form of transnational capital and their local supporters. Squash ’em all indeed. There are many faux so-called “lefties” who seem to think that likes of Antoinette didn’t deserve the guillotine. Go figure

  3. ‘twould be a shame to guillotine them, much better to put them to work cleaning hospitals and stuff like that. On the living wage of course……..

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