Well said Mike. I have no problem with promoting work opportunities; however they need good wrap around services to ensure that people do not fall through the cracks. And that this strict measure does not prompt a crime wave.
I am not confident with this Govt ability to manage this well. A most uncaring Govt imo. .
I for one have found it difficult, but have just finally accepted, that NZ has changed so much from the 1960's that a punitive, vindictive extremely right-wing Coalition Government like this one could ever have been voted in...so what can we put it down to? Who is to blame? Stupidly homophobic/racist misogynists and religious cretins reacting to fomenting OTT Woke influences is my call...in short, extreme polarization, which ends up enabling political pandering to corporate/oligarchic greedy interests. Where America has already gone, we Kiwis are now going.
I did my submission. It is a poor site imo. For one thing, it should have a “ save” option. With the Oranga Tamariki Youth Offender bill, I lost my submission completely and had to start again! With this one, in the recommendations section, it only wrote up part of what I said. When I went to edit it,,it was all there but not showing up on the post.
Well said. This government has the empathy of a brick.
Everything this government does is negative and/or punitive. Apart, of course, from things that impact on their mates. They are totally destructive.
Thank goodness for your post, I hadn’t realised the deadline was upon us. Submission done.
Thank you Mike. Thank you. I hope I will be able to share this. Spot on
Go for it!
Well said Mike. I have no problem with promoting work opportunities; however they need good wrap around services to ensure that people do not fall through the cracks. And that this strict measure does not prompt a crime wave.
I am not confident with this Govt ability to manage this well. A most uncaring Govt imo. .
I for one have found it difficult, but have just finally accepted, that NZ has changed so much from the 1960's that a punitive, vindictive extremely right-wing Coalition Government like this one could ever have been voted in...so what can we put it down to? Who is to blame? Stupidly homophobic/racist misogynists and religious cretins reacting to fomenting OTT Woke influences is my call...in short, extreme polarization, which ends up enabling political pandering to corporate/oligarchic greedy interests. Where America has already gone, we Kiwis are now going.
I did my submission. It is a poor site imo. For one thing, it should have a “ save” option. With the Oranga Tamariki Youth Offender bill, I lost my submission completely and had to start again! With this one, in the recommendations section, it only wrote up part of what I said. When I went to edit it,,it was all there but not showing up on the post.
Very odd site.
Always best to write and save as a PDF file then upload that. It avoids loss of formatting and editions