Congratulations to Jan Logie and the Green Party for getting their law to give domestic violence survivors and whanau paid and unpaid leave for domestic violence through to its first stage in Parliament.
It is an achievement and their tenacity to take the issue seriously and champion it is a reminder of what Parliament can do for the people it serves.
So often law time is taken up with punitive increases in punishment, more land rights for the privileged, more tax policy for the rich, more power to every state agency who asks for it and grotesque privatisation schemes.
This law seeks to use the power of the State to do something compassionate for its people. Domestic violence is an undeclared civil war in NZ, anything that can ease that suffering is welcome progress.
The Greens just reminded us all that Parliament can be used to do good.
To often today MP’s from all sides never come to the assistance when the public sends a request for assistance to them on the behalf of either themselves or the community they represent.
Our NGO are constantly seeing this lack of response from most MP’s from both sides of the house today, since this Government took over from Labour in 2008, as there has been a sharp disconnect from the community it is their to represent.
We hope the new Government this year corrects this MP lack of response to community request for assistance.
+100 CLEANGREEN….and congratulations to Jan Logie and the Greens
Only for English to veto it at the final hurdle, it’s what he does.
Jan and the Greens can be proud of the progress of this bill and the huge impact this will have to victims of domestic violence who need too know they have the strong support of the law to help them when its needed most.
The fact that we have a general election approaching and the need to be seen to be compassionate the National government had no choice but too support this bill or be offside with the public on what is a vital and commonsense law.
It should not have come too that , this government has shown once again that it devoid of recognising what is humane law and doing what’s right for victims of a heinous crime.
The National party through its arrogance is “out of touch” and governing out of expediency.
This work by Jan and her colleagues is why its time the Greens were in government.
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