Budget provides relief but nothing transformational for children in poverty – Child poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has said that the Government should be warmly congratulated for the reframing of the Budget…
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has said that the Government should be warmly congratulated for the reframing of the Budget…
The parents of Nicky Stevens, who died in 2015 while in the ‘care’ of Waikato DHB’s acute mental health facility, have welcomed the focus of the 2019 Budget on Mental Health.
They served him breakfast and it was only at 10am when they came to get him for court they found he was dead – and had been for probably 6 hours.
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Labour are lucky that the Treasury mishandling of the budget has become the story rather than the fine print reading of the budget because the lack of anything remotely representing transformation would have killed voters who had put their hopes into Jacinda’s politics of kindness. The truth is this budget falls far short of anything meaningful.
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At some stage, the Government have to bow to your demands, and seeing as the ‘transformational budget’ was about as transformative as a lump of coal, you are the last chance progressive NZ has to show people power is the only truly transformative force in politics.
The wellbeing budget has failed to introduce additional meaningful and immediate measures to improve the wellbeing of beneficiaries’ lives….