Run that past me again...

Of course if you want to get covered you have to say something radical. It doesn't have to be true......

From the Herald, Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia said the report showed that child deaths peaked in the late 1980s and 1990s when unemployment also peaked and benefits were cut.

And from the DomPost, Maori Party leader Tariana Turia said New Zealand's situation in terms of poverty and child abuse was fast approaching a "national emergency".

This latest CYF report made it clear child deaths were inextricably linked with socio-economic disadvantage, she said. "It's time for the Government to wake up to the reality of economic violence."