The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 28th April 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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News I found disappointing and depressing today:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1804/S00303/the-nation-social-development-minister-carmel-sepuloni.htm
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2018/04/welfare-overhaul-to-get-underway-in-next-three-years-carmel-sepuloni.html
“Before major changes are made, she’s waiting to hear back from an expert advisory panel that’s being set up over the next few weeks.”
Yawn, here we go again, call in the ‘experts’ to water down anything Labour may have said during the election campaign.
We have had endless reports, we have had endless media stories, we have had endless experiences gathered by AAAP and other advocacy groups, and now they are dragging their feet.
Instead of having yet another expert panel set up to ‘review’ the welfare system, perhaps MSD should start by sacking some of their senior ‘advisors’?! Paying them high salaries for making the system mean spirited and based on made up BS evidence does not cut it:
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/msd-releases-oia-info-on-dr-bratts-and-other-senior-health-advisors-high-salaries-nearly-4-years-late/
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/msd-releases-oia-info-on-health-advisors-salaries-nearly-4-years-late-post-30-04-171.pdf
Remember:
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2016/08/16/senior-scientist-and-legal-experts-discredit-evidence-used-by-msd-and-dr-bratt-when-claiming-the-health-benefits-of-work/
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/msd-and-dr-david-bratt-present-misleading-evidence-claiming-worklessness-causes-poor-health/
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/msd-dr-bratt-present-misleading-evidence-on-worklessness-and-health-publ-post-19-09-16.pdf