The low, low, low, low threshold of ‘transformative’ that so many on the Left are prepared to accept is why change is glacial.
The time for ‘it’s a step in the right direction’ was in 1980. Leaps are required now.
I think the manner in which dead infants are being used to justify the deeply flawed child uplift policy by Oranga Tamariki is a new low in this depressing and increasingly ugly debate.
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: THIS WEEK: Berm parking, Westland Milk & Chinese big money & plastic bag ban
Don’t tell me that we weaponised CYFs uplift policy in 2016 and went about removing as many children big data algorithms tell us will be a long term welfare cost without resourcing the services we will need to send those costly welfare units (children) to?
The truth is that Government has been hopeless at managing the neoliberal welfare agencies to be anything other than a stick, and have come far too late to the game in their first term to remedy these corruptions of social policy. The only hope to force real change is to fund groups like AAAP to be advocacy agents for beneficiaries (effectively unionise the beneficiaries) and also fund AAAP to prepare annual reports that are critical of WINZ.
On Friday the 28th of June at 4.48pm, Treaty Negotiation Minister Andrew Little, had his motorcade detained on the Waiotahe Bridge SH2 outside of Opotiki as he was transiting through Whakatohea territory having just taken the surrender of a tribe up the coast for 30 million pieces of silver. The local Ngai Tamahaua Hapu refuse to agree to such a corrupt land confiscation down-trou’ befalling their Iwi as he was about to find out.
The deafening silence that has been so omnipresent over this baby uplift program by Oranga Tamariki has finally been broken by Willie Jackson who wrote on his Facebook page today…
…interesting proposal by John Tamihere today on Auckland’s water. His out of the park proposal is to sell 49% of Watercare to ACC or the New Zealand Superannuation Fund means that all the desperately needed water upgrades could be fixed NOW instead of, as Phil Goff promises, within 50 years.
One of the most interesting repercussions of the NZ Herald going behind a Paywall has been the sudden increase in the quality of my life.
Reading this extraordinary conversation between the two of them makes me believe in hope that we can truly change our ways and shift in time to counter the apocalypse that is global warming. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut just in case they can’t force our culture and economy to radically shift into adaptation mode…