The tragedy of repealing 7aa from Oranga Tamariki will launch a tsunami in Māori uplifts

Bill unbinding Treaty principles, Oranga Tamariki passes final reading

Legislation stripping Treaty provisions from the Oranga Tamariki Act has passed its third and final reading in Parliament following a heated debate.

The coalition has long promised to repeal Section 7AA, which binds Oranga Tamariki to the Treaty of Waitangi’s principles, and requires it to work in partnership with iwi and hapū, reporting back regularly on how that is going.

The third reading started on Wednesday, and Minister for Children Karen Chhour said she was “pleased to lead this bill into its final stage in the House.”

This is a tragedy.

Our colonised past has seen the same mistakes many colonised country’s have made when uplifting indigenous babies into State care.

7AA was an attempt to redress that social mutilation.

Instead of uplifting Māori babies into a State care system that abuses and damages them, 7AA forced Oranga Tamariki to work with Māori Community Groups and uplifts Māori children to those groups rather than State care so as to keep Māori kids culturally anchored in their identity while providing on going wider whanau support.

THAT was what 7AA was supposed to facilitate.

Māori children, uplifted by the State, would go to these Māori Community organisations and (most crucially) the funding for that child follows that child to the Māori Community Organisation.

This was going to be a means to fund Māori Community Support and provide material resourcing, this was an actual solution and a way to get the abusive State out of the picture.

Now.

Do I think Oranga Tamariki was infected with the woke virus and that they absurdly used critical race theory madness in their definition of 7AA?

Fuck yes!

The reverse uplift saga that OT embarked upon and Newsroom bravely reported on saw OT define 7AA as ‘no white foster family could raise a Māori child’!

OT didn’t start sending newly uplifted Māori children to these Community Groups, they started taking the Māori children who had already been placed with white foster families back to whanau!

These Māori children had been told that were in a forever home, and that they would be living with these foster parents forever.

These children had enormous jumps in physical well being, emotional well being and material well being.

The child psychologists were clear that removing these Māori children from their white foster families would be traumatic and damaging.

OT did it anyway.

Not only did they do it, they did it with the zeal of the woke.

Staff members lied to the white foster families about what they needed to do to retain cultural competency of the Māori children in their care.

Staff members deceived the white foster families, and Staff members falsified reports to fail them.

All of this came out in Court remember, and what did OT do once the scope of their falsehoods and manipulations were outed in open Court?

OT then privately went to friendly Judges and asked them to speak to the judge hearing the case in an attempt to sway Judicial Independence.

FFS!

The reason OT was willing to go as far as illegally influencing a Judge was because their woke critical race theory dogma had become established policy and they had done this 16 other times!

Now.

While we can righteously damn OT for the manner in which they defined 7AA, repealing 7AA is throwing the baby out with the Marae.

OT policy towards Māori children being uplifted should be Whanau First not Whanau Always.

Any Māori uplift should go to Māori Community Organisations alongside the funding.

Sadly the dreaded Social Investment Model is coming!

The Social Investment Model uses big data algorithms to pinpoint when a child needs uplifting. For it to work properly and deliver the savings downstream to the State, the uplift must be as soon as Orac tells the State to uplift.

When they switch it on, it is going to generate an enormous tsunami of uplifts.

Removing 7AA removes the requirement for OT to talk to Māori, which is a green light for mass uplifts.

Placing uplifted Māori children into Māori Community Groups rather than the statistically likely abuse within State care is an actual solution (as long as the funding follows the child).

What ACT, National and NZ First are really fighting for here is to turn Orac on and let the magic of AI determine which child gets uplifted and which one doesn’t!

Think of it as a cross between Kindergarten Cop, Minority Report and The Handmaid’s Tale.

If the realty of this hard Right Government gaining the power to use AI to invade your life and rip children from parents doesn’t scare the bejesus out of you, I don’t know what will.

Repealing 7aa from Oranga Tamariki is a tragedy.

 

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