tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post5404157565275138893..comments2024-03-04T16:39:30.609+13:00Comments on Lindsay Mitchell: Falling out over whanau firstLindsay Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04437693272797130833noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-19559055904504189882017-03-17T10:50:29.060+13:002017-03-17T10:50:29.060+13:00By my read there are battle lines drawing up here ...By my read there are battle lines drawing up here toward the Second Reading mid-year.<br /><br />Tolly, Amy Adams, Winston are already up for it on one side.<br /><br />On the other, Fox & Turei will be joined by Susan Devoy's Race Relations Commission and Waitangi Tribunal Claimants, and a gaggle of pre-DPB unmarried mothers. I also anticipate counselling and social service advocates stepping out demanding more funding. The Labour Coalition will promise to find the stolen generation after making a losing spectacle of this upcoming Children, Young Persons and their Families legislation Bill.<br /><br />It's all one snowball.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06315796390662297759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-14908553766297063322017-02-16T15:05:43.726+13:002017-02-16T15:05:43.726+13:00Marama needs to reduce her stupid meds and go read...Marama needs to reduce her stupid meds and go read up on where Maori have made the greatest real gains. and while she is at it ignore the empty divisive patronising rubbish that Palmer promoted, as I suggested "real" gains for all Maori not just the manipulative elite. Gee Whiz could they accommodate Marama in their demographic, I guess so.gravedodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01598701221118814776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-18213591017738667042017-02-16T10:51:09.903+13:002017-02-16T10:51:09.903+13:00It is a worry when Winston Peters is talking sense...It is a worry when Winston Peters is talking sense on social policy.<br /><br />Children are placed with relatives if it is safe to do so. If they are not, they should not be placed there. The race of the child is irrelevant to whether it is relatives are a safe place.<br /><br />I am just completely bamboozled by this debate. There is a large literature in the USA on Indian tribal child welfare law that showed giving a preference to tribal relatives turned out to be a disaster. Children are left in dangerous places longer and returned to them sooner.Jim Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337463816684447862noreply@blogger.com