Waatea News Column: Oranga Tamariki review: Deplorable, despicable and unacceptable !

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The Whānau Ora report into Oranga Tamariki is out, and it is a deplorable, despicable and unacceptable read!

  • 14 armed police officers were used to remove a five-month-old Māori baby.
  • Forced post mortem.
  • Māori babies five times more likely to end up in state care.

What the hell has happened to this country whereby the State can kick in the door & steal babies with zero oversight or checks and balances?

How dare mourning parents be forced straight to a post mortem despite being told by the Drs that a brain tumour was the cause of death.

How can we pretend to be honouring the Treaty if Māori are having another generation stolen off them and babies being hawked off to a private company for adoptions?

What is most appalling here is that this entire obscenity of a social policy is right wing experiment!

The end goal here is to save the State money via early intervention, it has NOTHING to do with the welfare of the child or the families these children are being stolen from.

The State uses big data to find mothers guilty of future crimes they haven’t committed yet, parents aren’t allowed legal aid to fight the State, the 0800 number is streamlined to allow gossip to be used as evidence, the Government passed law watering down the legal rights of parents and there is no check or balance to these extraordinary powers!

NZers died and bled on foreign beaches to stop the State from having this level of fascist power!

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The power of the State to kick in your door and take your child with zero legal protections is a monstrosity and is the most coercive power the State can use against the individual so why on earth is a Labour Government prepared to die in a ditch for a right wing experiment in social welfare?

It is disgusting that the Prime Minister and the Minister have still not viewed the uplift footage.

First published on Waatea News.

33 COMMENTS

  1. It is disgusting that the Prime Minister and the Minister have still not viewed the uplift footage.

    Yes, that is really slack. For shame.

  2. 14 armed police officers were used to remove a five-month-old Māori baby.

    Also, “The Family Court had approved the uplift order with no prior notification to the whānau. The report says the mother remains traumatised by the uplift, which also included the presence of police dogs.” [my emph.] From Oranga-Tamariki-review-details-inhumane-agency

  3. This from Stuff, // RNZ:
    In one incident, the report said, 14 armed police officers were used to remove a five-month-old Māori baby from a mother. The mother said police and Oranga Tamariki staff converged on her home to carry out an uplift order that had been approved by the Family Court without the whānau receiving any notification.

    The mother thought she was heading to a family group conference at Oranga Tamariki, but instead was met at her door by heavily armed police with police dogs.

    Dame Naida Glavish, who chaired the governance group overseeing the review, said the report confirmed systemic failure and discrimination.

    “The Crown is not honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi. There’s been unprecedented breaches of human rights and the treatment of Māori women has been inhumane.

    “We can clearly see from the volume of evidence and the heavy handed approach inflicted on this whānau that something is so systemically wrong. This entrenched behaviour is plain unjust,” Dame Naida said.

    “We are deeply grateful to whānau who had the courage to stand up and speak their truth.” Link here

    The report said the overwhelming conclusion from the inquiry was that state care of tamariki and pepi Māori, and in particular the uplift practices, were never appropriate for the long-term well-being of Māori.

    It suggests with new increased government spending still resulting in poor outcomes for whānau, there is a strong economic case to make revolutionary change to the current system.

  4. Kheala to many of the people that work in this field/industry its a business and it is business as usual. Also they have been allowed to get away this bullshit for too long. Now I see one of our Maori women leaders Naida Glavich has come and said ‘ enough is enough’

    • Yes, Naida is a ‘real person’, not someone just doing their job. She’s not intimidated by all the b.s. and red tape and uniforms and stuff that’s around. I’m thankful that she’s there.

      • Che and Kapua are not Toku Morgan and neither was Morgan anything as competent as Naida. They just suck at collecting donations. They suck at donations and they’ve got no ground game. Yknow TOP got 60,000 party votes and The Māori Party only got 30,000 out of a possible 200,000. We couldn’t even lead to water because they just won’t drink from it.

  5. Here’s a link to an earlier discussion of Oranga Tamariki. It covers some of the same ground:
    TDB OT Its The Welfare of the State That Matters

    D’Esterre posted an RNZ link there, to an interview with Jean Te Huia on the topic. She described O.T. as the ambulance at the bottom of the hill, and said that what is needed now is “supporting family to be family”. She mentions the impact of the loss of housing, especially state housing, and the increase in homelessness, with families living in motels or on the street.

    She spoke of the need to create a better system, one in which there would be no need to remove children. The answer is in improving those homes where those children are coming from, so that those children can stay with their parents and stay with their families. We need a better system of housing, we to get need a better system of educating our families and our whanau, a better system where our men can work, where they have employment.

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