Even Chris Bishop Says Move-On Orders Breach Rights
Move-on orders law breach Bill of Rights in part – Chris Bishop
Aspects of the Government’s move-on orders risk being an unjustified limitation on New Zealanders’ rights, according to Attorney-General Chris Bishop.
The Attorney-General is required to notify Parliament if any part of a bill appears to be inconsistent with the rights and freedoms contained in the Bill of Rights.
The report must also consider if those inconsistencies can be justified. It is not uncommon for laws to breach the Bill of Rights in part, and a Government will often pass the law despite these breaches.
In his first such report since becoming Attorney-General in March, Bishop found that parts of the Government’s move-on orders legislation were inconsistent with the Bill of Rights.
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Move-on orders punish people for being poor
Just so that we are clear.
The Government is pushing a law to kick the poorest amongst us after punching them to the ground in the first place.
Everyone warned the Government that changes to the Emergency Housing thresholds would produce the very homelessness epidemic we are seeing.
Everyone warned the Government that cutting food banks, outreach programmes and gutting public housing would result in this.
Even the Government’s own housing and social development officials warned move-on orders could further harm people experiencing homelessness, distance them from essential support, and effectively criminalise them.
The very thing they were warned about would happen happens and the response by the Government is to simply criminalise the homeless because they embarrass us when the cruise tourists drop by.
When even Chris Bishop can see the human rights abuses of the new move-on powers.
Come on.
This isn’t social policy, it’s malice.
I’ve heard through Ani that the new nact policy is looking at getting the hungry to eat the homeless and solve both problems and save 2.3b for redistribution to penniless landlords.
nice