Waatea 5th Estate – poverty reality in NZ
…In the studio – Auckland Action Against Poverty advocates
– Alastair Russell,
– Nat Jaques
And on Skype the Labour Party spokesperson for social development – Carmel Sepuloni
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WINZ are the mercenaries of the government of the day, and at present they are constantly breaking the law, at least natural justice. Here is some stuff to study and think about:
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/the-m-a-b-hearing-process-how-msd-secretly-changed-it-to-further-disadvantage-clients-oficial-post-18-03-15.pdf
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/msd-dr-bratt-present-misleading-evidence-on-worklessness-and-health-post-09-08-15.pdf
Their designated doctors are often not that helpful, conditioned by MSD:
http://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/designated-doctors-used-by-work-and-income-some-also-used-by-acc-the-truth-about-them/
And this is the unhelpful HDC protecting MSD’s designated doctors:
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/how-the-n-z-health-and-disability-commissioner-let-off-a-biased-designated-doctor/
This is how Bill English condescendingly talked about benefit “addicts”:
http://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2014/10/19/nz-finance-minister-bill-english-insults-beneficiaries-with-mansel-aylwards-work-will-set-you-free-approach/
We are still waiting for the Ombudsman to hold MSD to account for not offering more info, for a long while yet:
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/mental-health-and-sole-parent-employment-services-msd-withholds-o-i-a-information-that-may-prove-their-trials-a-failure/
And here we are waiting, for years now, for transparency:
http://publicaddress.net/speaker/how-is-government-evaluating-its-welfare/
The system stinks, is inhumane and needs to be changed a.s.a.p. we get no info about how many committed suicide not able to handle the stress and challenges. And what happened in Ashburton was not just a bad man going mad, I believe, there is more behind it. No wonder Bennett wanted another job than welfare minister in the end, I do not envy Tolley.