Wow.
Coster’s Social Investment Model Jargon Train Wreck Interview on Q+A this morning was not enough to hide this neoliberal welfare experiment.
The Social Investment model is not about the welfare of the individual, it’s about using AI to identify early investment that will save the State money down stream.
It’s an idea championed by Bill English and run by his daughter, to counter universal welfare provision, money should only be spent preventing the worst case causing more cost to the State.
That’s why 7aa was removed from Oranga Tamariki, rather than work with community Iwi to find extended whanau, the Social Investment model demands immediate removal.
This will empower a new generation of uplifted Māori children.
Coster’s inability to explain exactly how Social Investment will work (without mentioning the AI element of it) or why it will work beyond Jargon buzz words should concern everyone.
Look, EVERYTHING this Government has implemented has been cruel and merciless – from their disrespect to those tortured by the State, to their pay parity debacle to what they’ve done to the Disability sector, beneficiaries, Māori, workers, renters and the environment – why the Christ would you believe anything they say regarding a new neoliberal welfare experiment masquerading as a solution.
Coster was picked because he had cred as the Police Commissioner, his terrible performance today suggests that he’s going to end up like the new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a stooge group with no credibility with those they claim to be helping.
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Neoliberalism you write.
Here’s a thing or two about neoliberalism.
Tadhg Stopford – NZ is not poor. We are being plundered.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/05/07/guest-blog-tadhg-stopford-nz-is-not-poor-we-are-being-plundered/?utm_source=pocket_shared
The Invisible Doctrine by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison review – neoliberalism’s ascent
An incisive analysis of how the controversial ideology has permeated modern life
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/29/the-invisible-doctrine-by-george-monbiot-and-peter-hutchison-review-neoliberalisms-ascent?utm_source=pocket_shared
In short, and I’m not that short, but neoliberalism is a crime wave. A disease and we have it.
Mr Chinhair can fuck off and find some human-being sleeping rough to bash.
Sister Pauline O’Regan and two other Sisters, the three nuns acting in concert to the Pope’s Vatican 11 call for more interaction with the people was much appreciated by the struggling mothers in Aranui a low-income suburb.
These nuns with their real kind, assistance where it was needed were worth more than one well-paid administrator in his fine suit, perfectly turned out, with wary eyes as he is questioned.
https://catholicworker.org.nz/the-common-good/the-aranui-sisters/ (about 1973, and now times are as hard or harder! Pathetic.)
‘We had heard and seen the desperation of so many of the girls we had taught who had got married and shortly afterwards had started families in the suburbs. So many were lonely, desperate in their isolation. And we felt we were abandoning them. The catalyst for me was a young woman who came for counseling and said, ‘If only I had an older woman to talk to.’ The developers were building whole new suburbs for young families with no infrastructure, no support mechanisms. When two of us later moved over to Parklands, we were moving to a social wasteland, reflecting a disgraceful lack of town planning insight, where these young people were left exposed to real mental and emotional poverty and trauma. There were no footpaths, no telephones, no shops, no bus system, no infrastructure at all.’ (Pauline)
and
The Mission work of the Aranui Sisters of Mercy in Eastern Christchurch
Emily Rosevear
2020 thesis University of Canterbury
English’s daughter is clipping the taxpayer ticket for $ 30,000 per report…what a joke…another gravytrainer…what a waste of money.
There is no evidence to demonstrate that the taxpayer is getting any beneficial return whatsoever from this….
It’s all about their reckons.
Where’s the taxpayer union…where’s Hooton
the tax payer union is busy kissing Davids arse and gloating about his new bill that will allow white people to plunder Maori land to fill their pockets .I get emails from them every week or so and while they hate Willis because she is keeping more money from the donner elite they are encouraging David to plunder Maori and increase white privilege and allow more destruction of the environment .Its all about property rights they say but those rights only belong to white people .
We know poverty plays a large role in family violence. Not only does it create stress and tension that can easily ignite, it’s also a barrier for victims trying to escape.
Yet, this new from of social investments doesn’t seem to do anything to improve peoples incomes. Leaving some to question whether this from of social investment is merely taking taxpayer money away from where it is really required?
We know poverty plays a large role in family violence. Not only does it create stress and tension that can easily ignite, it’s also a barrier for victims trying to escape.
Yet, this new form of social investment doesn’t seem to do anything to improve peoples incomes. Leaving some to question whether this form of social investment is merely taking taxpayer money away from where it is really required?
Money wouldn’t be enough to help people turn their lives upward not downward. Sure it is a help, particularly if it went back to having grants available for extra from the normal – NOT debt on top of poverty, cruel and stupid government behaviour so despicable, you DarthVaders using your powers to destroy the human spirit, so incorporeal. so inseparable to real humans not yet swallowed by machines and tech.
But Celia Lashlie and Sir Kim Workman and others, but she would be foremost I think, developed approaches to rebuilding human spirit and felt she was getting somewhere; and would succeed to make a big difference to the troubled and criminal.. She thought that and wept tears of disappointment while documenting her final months before some damned disease took her away.
https://www.celiafilm.com/
and
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/105573733/new-film-captures-the-legacy-and-final-days-of-social-justice-campaigner-celia-lashlie
Crime of irrationality – https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/337432/man-jailed-for-robbing-pubs-shooting-two-women 2017
If we could reduce this sort of thing it would be a good move, to work with those who still have a core of inner belief.
EVEN BETTER ask parents with young children what they need, and help them get it, get them to attend workshops and talk about problems with others and how they were dealt with. Young or older parents are taking on a big job and up against television, subtle influences around, and the all-pervading cellphone/net.
Further:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360695086/notorious-pub-robber-who-shot-mother-and-daughter-may-not-have-been-acting-alone
…notorious armed robber who terrorised pubs across Canterbury before turning a gun on an innocent mother and daughter appears to have admitted he was not acting alone.
With his face hidden by a black balaclava, Douglas Roake terrorised the Canterbury hospitality industry, carrying out six armed pub robberies in six weeks in 2017.
During the crime spree, the then 23-year-old also invaded a rural home and shot Michaela Dawson and her mother, Nicola. It was a deviation from his modus operandi that ultimately led to his downfall. As she fought for her life, Michaela managed to rip the balaclava from the gunman’s head, revealing the face of a man who she knew through her ex-husband. Roake, who wasn’t on a list of suspects police had drawn up, was arrested the following morning, and was eventually jailed for 13 years and eight months with a minimum non-parole period of six and a half years.
Since then Roake’s motives and the whereabouts of the $100,000 of cash he stole from the pubs has remained a mystery.
The former security guard…
(Note – mother and daughter were injured, not killed. But the traumatic situation is part of a dark cloud of a level of amoral behaviour which is bad for all of us. I’d like to see less of the cliche ‘crime spree’ in this type of article!)
And these crimes of violence and coercion? Could they be avoided if a person learned to control drug intake?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/561508/former-partner-of-double-killer-twice-ruled-insane-says-she-was-terrified-of-what-he-might-do-to-her
The evidence is clear and conclusive. Giving cash to the poor is the best way to fix poverty
https://morganfoundation.org.nz/giving-cash-to-the-poor-is-the-best-way-to-fix-poverty/
I thought Coster was too smart to fall for the ‘social investment’ hoax – a little boondoggle straight from the foetid brain of Billy English. But then, I was comparing Coster to Mark Mitchell, so naturally Coster looked like a genius in comparison.
Anyway, this is just another attempt to locate the social failures inherent in market capitalism not in that system itself, but in the supposed deficiencies of its victims.
But something good might come out of it – not because the core ideology has any merit in itself, but because of Coster’s obvious decency as a human being.
Coster was given the job because they wanted him gone from the police .Now he is a well paid puppet for helping a former PM and his Daughter line their pockets on top of his 100k a year pension as well as the national super he gets along with a company car and travel perks .
What a shame that so many Maori children live in such dysfunctional situations that the state sees a need to uplift them.