Newsroom wins three-year ban to republish story on ‘reverse uplifts’
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- Newsroom published an investigation into the “reverse uplifts” of four children.
- An interim injunction was then granted ordering Newsroom to remove the documentary.
- The Court of Appeal has now quashed that injunction and ordered the Solicitor General to pay costs.
The Court of Appeal has ruled media outlet Newsroom can republish a video and articles regarding an investigation into the removal of four children from their foster home.
Newsroom’s investigations editor Melanie Reid told Stuff the decision was a “big win for journalism”.
“We knew that we had not identified the children and we were not going to be bullied by Oranga Tamariki and Crown Law.”
This is an incredibly important story.
The audacity that Oranga Tamariki managed to censor this story for as long as they did was an abuse of process and power.
This is a reminder that the Sate looks after itself while pretending to care about you.
Oranga Tamariki took this story down before the rest of NZ had a chance to see it because they feared the backlash it would cause.
Oranga Tamariki placed 4 Māori children with a white foster family.
Oranga Tamariki told those 4 Māori Children and the white foster family that it was a ‘forever family’ in that the Children would no longer be endlessly moved around and could finally call this place home.
The white foster family sold their home and bought a bigger home for their new family.
It lasted 2 years.
Then Oranga Tamariki came under heavy criticism for their Māori baby uplift programme that uses big data algorithms to save the State down stream costs (in what is nothing more than a neoliberal welfare experiment) and that criticism of due process and compassionate outcome sparked a panicked response to review all Māori children placed with white families and then insanely remove those vulnerable children from those white parents!
By pretending to care about the 4 children they are traumatising, Oranga Tamariki have managed to temporarily censor Newsroom so they can buy time to desperately get their story straight before Pakeha NZ realises what they’ve done.
Panicking and just removing Māori children from white homes they’ve been told are permanent, Oranga Tamariki have shown they are a broken and counter productive agency who are actually endangering and causing pain in Children’s lives.
If a Māori child can be place with whanau and supported at the start, fine, but you can’t place children in a family, tell them it’s permanent and then lie!
The damage these woke critical race theory cretins caused these poor little children alongside the trauma they are committing against the foster parents is an abomination.
THAT is why Oranga Tamariki censored the story, so that you wouldn’t find out about it!
If you knew they were taking Māori kids off white foster families – DESPITE TELLING THOSE MĀORI KIDS THE WHITE FOSTER FAMILY WAS A FOREVER HOME – you would be incandescent with rage.
OT managed to hide what they did here and they censored the story.
You as citizens should be furious at how these children were used as an identity politics virtue signal.
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Martyn – Perhaps some hope for NZ Media after all…
What actual institutional racism looks like.
As opposed to “woke Critical Race Theory”? Funny, pretty much all of those who go on about CRT know pretty much nothing about it.
OT appears to be filled with completely hopeless managers and vicious incompetent staff.
And Section 7AA needs to be repealed.
One example that might be better served by AI if properly done. There seems no human feeling of moral standing in these people, stemming from hollow leaders and CEO. Maori should rise up and say we want to put forward names to be chosen for specialist training in this branch of social welfare, and those who pass will then gradually replace the flunkeys boldly pushing their child maltreatment and also to those adults offering help.
Some of us ARE furious.