MEDIAWATCH: NZ Media suddenly wake up to attack on Whanau Ora while inadvertently helping it

The penny finally drops…

Is Whānau Ora under ‘attack’? New contracts raise alarm

For the first time ever, Whānau Ora commissioning contracts are being renegotiated – leading to fears the entire system is “under attack”. Glenn McConnell reports.

For more than a decade, three commissioning agencies have led the Whānau Ora scheme – but that’s come to an end.

Those three agencies lost their commissioning contracts on Friday, sparking fears about the future of the lauded whānau-led support services.

The Government hasn’t confirmed who will take over those roles, but two iwi have said they will be taking up the commissioning jobs.

…yes, as TDB has been pointing out from the start, this smear against the Māori Party, Waipareira Trust and the Manurewa Marae by Destiny Church was always deeply questionable and the mainstream media now refer to them as ‘whistleblowers’ rather than Destiny Church agent provocateurs with a a deeper mission to purposely damage the reputation of the Waipareira Trust so as to seize Whānau Ora contracts and lo and behold it’s happened!

Sources tell me that this Whānau Ora raid was originally going to drop in the media right after the reports into corruption came out so as to link the two but because the reports didn’t find any corruption they had to change release dates.

The Police investigation to date has gone no where and no one has been investigated.

The focus now needs to move to the Destiny Church activists and any connection with those seeking to take over the Whānau Ora contracts.

There is a far bigger story here than the supposed corruption of the Māori Party.

The real story here is the dependence of Government Agencies on Community Iwi organisations to do the community outreach they are incapable of and then blaming those social providers when their haste and desperation expose a massive lack of oversight.

How is that the fault of the Māori Party, the Waipareira Trust or the Manurewa Marae?

One of the things I think is most outrageous about the allegations of corruption is the double standards.

How on earth is it corruption that a Māori family may have been given a KFC voucher, but this isn’t?

Revealed, fast-track ministers’ personal picks that govt had denied existed

A year after the information was requested, pressure from the Ombudsman has forced the Ministry for the Environment to reveal the 97 ministerial nominations

The Ministry for the Environment has released a list of the hand-picked projects put forward by Cabinet ministers for the controversial fast-track regime, after almost a year of denying the existence of this information.

The list of projects – half of which ended up in the Fast-track Approvals Act – was withheld from the public by the ministry, despite first being requested under the Official Information Act in March last year.

It wasn’t until the Ombudsman started investigating a complaint from an environmental lobby group that the ministry admitted the information existed, and then released the list. 

Isn’t it amazing – da Māoris is destroying democracy with their corruption, yet at the top table, the Rich place their donors interests above the common good, hide it, get paid and that’s all fine and dandy?

 

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