Ask Me Anything: Paula Bennett talks to teens about realities of growing up in Aotearoa
Teenagers have been in the spotlight in New Zealand over the last year. Many youth have been caught up in the ram-raid crime wave that swept across the country, while there are growing concerns about rising truancy numbers from school in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
As the country heads towards an election, political parties are squaring off on the right ways to get these kids back on the straight and narrow – but what do the teenagers facing the struggles of youth in New Zealand today think should be done?
Speaking to Paula Bennett on her New Zealand Herald podcast, Ask Me Anything, Teina, 15, and Lichelle, 14, have faced difficulties that come with being part of a generation hooked on social media.
Y-e-a-h.
I don’t give a fuck about Paula talking to these teenagers, but you know what I would listen to NZ Herald?
I’d love to hear Paula Bennett interview some of the State Housing children she threw onto the streets using her flawed and false meth testing regime.
I mean the show is called ‘Ask me anything’, wouldn’t it be great to hear from all those teenagers she threw onto the street by misusing meth levels at a time the National Government were privatising state Houses?
There has been a real attempt to sanitise Paula Bennett’s legacy, be it kind columns talking about how hard it was for her as a woman, to dancing with Tom Sainsbury, to Gives us a Clue with Hillary, to her new podcast.
In response to this attempt to whitewash her legacy, here is one image that sums up the true spite and maliciousness of her as a politician…
…Paula knew the meth testing policy was flawed. She was told and Housing NZ were told that they were mis-interpreting their own policy, Housing NZ even admitted that they knew they were misinterpreting it and yet, they willingly used meth as a clickbait weapon to demonise state tenants while they were privatising State Housing.
Paula needlessly blew $120million on decontamination that was never a health risk, she threw hundreds of state tenants onto the streets in the middle of a homelessness crisis, billed them hundreds of thousands in costs through corrupt tenancy tribunals and banned them from re-entering State Houses.
She can dance with as many comedians as she likes, nothing cleanses the pure spite of her as a politician.
Her draconian attacks on welfare recipients was only possible because she herself had been a solo mother.
Paula was the ultimate political poacher turned game keeper.
She could push welfare eugenics because she could always cite her own experience as some sort of justification.
She released personal information to shame beneficiary critics and put into place a sanction regime that saw thousands go hungry.
Her ruthlessness masquerading as ‘I know best’ damaged NZs poor, she didn’t alleviate it.
That she has now been whitewashed by TVNZ and Stuff is remarkable while I am still banned for life from RNZ is eye rolling.
You are allowed back into the fold after needlessly blowing $120million on false meth contamination and throwing hundreds onto the street in the middle of a homelessness crisis, but defame John Key and you are blacklisted for life???
Glad we got that clear.
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I’m more concerned that a clown like her would even be given a talk show at all!
I recall the Wellington correspondent for ‘The Australian’ lamenting that “the N.Z. media struggles to report on issues seriously.”
As far as broadcasting is concerned, they can’t even seem to find serious people to moderate or read out a bulletin — let alone actually report on serious issues!
An old N.Z.B.C. bulletin with Bill Toft appears to be from a different planet (perhaps the same one the B.B.C. inhabited until recently).
Meanwhile poor Dougal Stevenson has been reduced to hosting on a non-affiliate local station, with almost no budget. Joe Gilfillan has been banished to radio, where the commercial producers seem to have ruined his accent. John Hawkesby is apparently living on an island and judging wine!
Nothing will whitewash Paula, ever. If she’s featuring on the media, it merely shows that lowest common denominator rules the media, and why they should have clamped her mouth when they did her tummy, that same big mouth she could no more stop stuffing than stop spitting out spite like revealing beneficiaries’ personal details to the media, her slimy spoutings about behaviour befitting other politicians, and mean jealous attempts to shaft Hurimoana Dennis for succeeding at Te Puea Marae in doing something that she failed at, abysmally. And she has dreadful hair, but only geriatrics stuck in dayrooms watch this sort of thing anyway, so anybody who the Herald can get cheap will do.
Wonderful summation Gentle.
“MEDIAWATCH: Hey NZ Herald I want Paula to interview the kids of the families she threw onto the street when lying about the meth scandal in State Housing”
yep I know. I haven’t listened to it although I probably should, but the whole thing is as funny as a fart.
There goes one fugly woman. I’d cross the street if saw it coming. (Ugly in EVERY sense)
But then I also wonder how many commenters that come in here (those without mortgages or other economic handcuffs) bank with either Kiwibank, or the CoOp Bank.
Once was Tim. Now now, Adonis. Judge not a something by its looks.I mean a book by its cover. Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson was no Meghan Markle to look at, but when she sang, she was transformed and beautiful to behold. Eleanor Roosevelt whom Markle plagiarised ( amongst others) at the UNO was no beauty, but remarkably politically competent.
Paula’s had the odd op, and she spends a lot on shoes, and if Judith could drag her into a church and onto her knees, she too could metamorphose into something half decent especially if she takes a vow of silence and always says no to drugs, alcohol, and candy floss.
I’m with Kiwibank and they’re lovely on the telephone and speak English as a first language, if that’s okay with you.
She’s a toxic self absorbed woman who’d still be obese if it hadn’t been for her MP salary. We really must properly vett our potential politicians, starting with psychological testing. We’ve got to weed out the self absorbed narcissists and psychopaths from power/authority positions in society. Geez, there’s enough of them in the business world without our parliament and media also being dragged down into the cesspit of dysfunction, imo
Middling average people who’s life’s aim is to be admired and popular, but hold the respect of biege coloured vomit. I mean if you can hide the peas and carrot that’s got to be worth something.
Where do lazy, useless and Narcissistic National MPs go?
To media.
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