THIS WEEK: Cabinet reshuffles, Makhouf madness, gambling funding, Folau, Mallard seeking Parliamentary funds for legal fees, Euthanasia votes & Cricket World Cup
You get the feeling that the Ministry of Vulnerable Children’s name change to Oranga Tamariki was a brown washing exercise to gloss over the much more violent reality of what this new agency would be doing.
THIS WEEK: David Hisco, Police over reaction, Luxon, Boris Johnson, ACTs freedom of speech play & girls playing rugby
You ever get the feeling that your news media’s attempting to push a particular narrative that’s … not really all that concerned with the truth?
If your contribution to the breath taking abuse of child uplifts by Oranga Tamariki is “But it’s not racist” – perhaps you should sit this one out. Maori have been complaining about losing their children to the State since the 1940s – this damaging child theft policy isn’t new.
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: THIS WEEK: The horror of Oranga Tamariki
We all accept that there will be some parents who are a danger to their children, but they are the exception, not the rule, and the incredibly low thresholds being used to seize children is just unacceptable. We know these children have more risk of being abused in State care, we know these children taken into state care tend to turn up in our prisons, we know that we are not supporting vulnerable parents to help them be the best parents they can be.
If you pick a fight with a dirty fighter, you don’t turn up to box Queensberry Rules.
I don’t want to go on and on and on about how wonderful Breakfast on TVNZ has become since John Campbell joined because that seems terribly unfair to Jack Tame, but John is such an incredible broadcaster and journalist that he actually lifts every boat.
32 years after the Roper Report told us that our Prison system wasn’t working by jailing and punishing too many, we get another Justice Advisory report once again highlighting our debased prison system as deeply damaging, deeply racist and deeply counter productive.