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after me. ok. you're watching the stream home edition. globally. new zealand is getting a lot of respect for the way it has handled the code red pandemic now small floozy and is rewarded just into a labor party with a landslide election result. but, new zealand told african supplanting out that a durned, who made eradicating child poverty. one of the key missions still has a very long way to go. they're not going to cut or of here when you zealand has just under a 1000000 children, 70 percent of them live well, but 20 percent depend on out of disadvantaged teen busy love and chronic poverty

and didn't as martin children and their families are paid at the most and you can see it colonize ation. there structurally, and systemically generates suffering for marty cover. 19 showed us just how quickly our nation can move to address an acceptable risk and shine a bright light on the widening gap between the rich and the core. in this country, and we're well resourced nation like new zealand, which prides itself on kindness. it's unacceptable to have so many people struggling. urgent action is needed to ensure the perception doesn't deepen and widen poverty in this country. this is a challenge, particularly for all nations where the genius children, experience disproportionately and chronic disadvantage. why so many children in new zealand are being left behind the discussion today. if

you're on you tube, jumping to the comment section and be part of our discussion, let me say hello to the guests. the guests themselves to you by still the well i guess, i mean it replaced comment on this conversation about geary and mari, which means of and the scenes weisel. so from chile. so i have a piece of wider world view of the topic. and i will suggest up in what society would call a slum. and i've moved on to several businesses and i produce a radio show in new zealand calls. and that's his club, which deals with mental health issues. nice to have any advice, how they broke. tell him where he you are. the law follow here though. brooke stanley power and the quarter nato were cloned action against poverty where

a voluntary and political advocacy group that's fighting for a new system to ensure that everybody here can live a life with dignity. so i thank you, terry, i'm going to show now and it's a very welcome and welcome to our growth electorate in new zealand politics and public policy. at the university of auckland, i teach in research on marty in new zealand, politics, topics and issues. i'm marty, deceive myself, and am i also in the associate director of the public policy institute, so you're really happy to be here today inking to get into the shoot. great to have you guess one of the reasons why we're doing this show is that we looked at this unicef report back to him in that top job. pity in perspective, an overview of child wellbeing in rich countries. new zealand was one of the rich countries was, which wasn't doing well as far as child poverty is concerned. not only can you explain what happens in new zealand is so will cease doing so well in so many areas

. but 40 behind us from concerned i guess we've had a long history of inequality, dating back to the founding document of one of the founding documents, the treaty of white tongue in 140. and since then, we've just never head true partnership and equality between indigenous lardy and paki, which is what we refer to as the new zealand europe in the same population and adding to that over the years we've had a lot of our sort of like cousin migrate to new zealand, and they also have had faced a lot of challenges coming up up against institutional racism, structural inequality. we had a period in the 1980 s. of just like a huge amount of near liberalism, that kind of eroded our welfare state, which was quite world leading back. so the 1900 and then we had cats to benefit levels sort of in the 1990 s. . and since then they've, but they didn't have been sufficient, and that's where we're sitting, that we're sitting in a place where we've had growing inequality since the 1980 s. 1990 s.

. and it's not getting better. and of course, as you've outlined, we now have the challenges of covered, and that's just kind of the current situation in new zealand. is this growing inequality and this holiday for a lot of especially martin pacific people? who are, i can see nodding as lho was talking, articulate, and i'm just not in an agreement. as i mentioned before, where we work with people on the ground on the front line who are experiencing poverty. so we also advocate for people within our system to ensure that they receive the full support from a ministry of social development family, people and every day struggling to live day to day. unless country yeah, i was just nodding to total core support what laura was saying, can you, can you give us an example of he don't need to mention family names eccentric but we have to be added to believe it from the 20 percent or the 10 percent of kids are

impacted in this meal temps in the families impacted in this way. what does that mean in reality? tell us a story that helps us understand, you know, so we get solo parents coming in all the time. you know, after all of their goals have been paid. their dollar got $60.00 for the week. we had a solo, mum come in with 4 children the other day who was in that position. we've had solo dates, come in, a solo dead came on with children needing to find more permanent accommodation hose and he's an emergency shelter at the moment because his children are and they need, you know, a bigger house. so more secure housing to live in. this is very normal for us here on the ground. and yet it's devastating. and we shouldn't in a country like new zealand,

we shouldn't have. yeah, the material people shouldn't be living in such hard circumstances that they are. it's a real struggle. so we couldn't contact the ministry for children in new zealand, and this is what davis singles is a very long statement, but 1st of all the we're very keen to point out that oh that $80000.00 children happy, nifty out of poverty. and this is in the 3 holes of this particular coalition, government being aimed power poorest cities be something to be celebrated or is it still so much further to go that, that don't want to seem to advance our declaration. i want to eradicate child poverty. was that just too ambitious? well, 1st off, you know, when it comes to statistics, i'm a great believer and you know, lies damn lies and statistics. and, you know,

are either side, which is don't confuse me with the facts. my mind's made up. you know that the numbers may say one thing, but in terms of the reality, the reality, one person and one government isn't going to be able to affect the positive attitude and societal change we want in a short period of time. so odd, i don't really feel that that means a great deal. i'm in last week i was talking to a tall young lady who was grew up, grew up and in poverty him mother used to make a push or supermarket trolley around the supermarket, filling it with, with food in the walk out of the supermarket without paying for it now she didn't want to do that, but if she didn't, mother would give her a basing, you know, so, you know, these things are,

these things are happening in these things are real. but i do think that it's ted and fear to criticize the the governments and the prime minister for not making change fast enough. it's really something the bureaucrats have to have to do. and the bureaucrats are often faceless. so you don't see who they are. the politicians are just the people that you identify very easily. so there is, as i say, i think, i think also vote the government have a responsibility to ensure their people don't. i mean, they're the ones that make the laws just send their labor government have already payment and power for one term. and she's saying that even the next term she is not looking at less staying current benefit level. so livable never was. so i think it is important that we remain critical of the government to ensure that people on

the ground are seeing to that our children assented and decisions. they're actually impact on a fix these laws that politicians are making the decisions of about poverty and altidore to fix them these decisions darn mpeg to them. and so yeah, it's your go ahead. judy concern for us, because right now we've got a very popular prime minister elect, one of the most popular of all time when the fugitive already, which we would not expect and in, in pay under our mix, near a proportional electoral system. so basically at the moment, just under other and labor have like a huge mandate to make transformational policy change. and so for a lot of us and out at all, we're watching them and we're going, you going to try to be a centrist government and hold on to power for as long as possible by sitting in the middle and trying to appeal to middle new zealand to my own home, who might be sort of middle class, or you going to try to do something that's transformational and shifts the paradigm

and isn't just tempering around the edges that actually tries to create some kind of structural change structural change from our a structural change to these children, structural change in terms of inequality. and i think for a lot of us now we're watching to see which direction they go in. and that's kind of quite important for again, after being that sort of war to go, hey, what are you guys going to do? now? let me add another issue to the, to the challenges you already have in new zealand. whether you seem to be far ahead than the rest of world, as far as managing the credit pandemic. this is catherine inconstancy, teacher, and she talks about what cood has done to the existing poverty in new zealand. please have a listen. well, young people living on or below the poverty line, as she said, diffidently gotten considerably worse since 1000 had new zealand. young people have become really big contributors to the household or so big winners as a result of supporting families where they have been redundancies or job losses or people with compromised health who were unable to work during the worst periods and

all of his kind of compiled and made things a lot worse for young people and they have a lot more on their shoulders and have as a result, had to grab a little bit faster in this time. so the priorities of the and in government just as they've been reelected, restoring peace with an economy after covariate. and also just managing covert child poverty. poverty was not high up there on the east, despite people in mind doing that. that was one of the key missions, tourists pick up off the back of that the dish will impact of code that haven't seen. well, you know, the ah, the other business owner and i'm involved in several civil, different sectors, right? i'm also involved in social causes like it to see life and by the top in the bottoming ins of town. the 1st thing i'd say, let's be clear if the government hadn't provided

a white subsidy to employers consider considerably more people at the bottom end of town or to become unemployed a lot quicker. and the most significant number of those people would have been from working class backgrounds. now you know that the number one way that it's affecting curtis and when i say that, you know, i say if you, if is, is a fact that they don't have a political voice. no one listens to them because the voice carries no political white. so that's why you threw in the people like us to advocate on their behalf. you know, is it making sense to it does make sense is something that i was talking to my team about earlier on today. and this was, it was, it was a big deal because we were talking about poverty, new zealand, children being left behind and then high suicide numbers that new zealand actually has. and this is something that data that's been picked up by unicef,

who is looking to see who is in the rich countries who are doing better as far as child poverty is concerned in china being as well. so i want to bring in this this point from a university student who talks about the resources that are available or not available for young people who may decide or be very much on the edge. regarding is it worth living as homeless and i have lost friends to suicide. and the 1st question that comes to mind is what imus. and suddenly the word suicide becomes a part of my vocabulary. some people feel they cannot approach mental health services for lack of genuine concern or a stigma. is my opinion that there is no consistency with how we approach this challenge or if it's really deal with it. we must review prevention initiatives and how can we become the gatekeeper instead of ambulance at the bottom of the cliff,

it is essential that we start holding the service providers accountable. considering new zealand reported $654.00 suicides in 2019, and currently has one of the highest suicide rates in the air. was he so poor is this is this is problematic. poor. i'm ahead. no also mentions to here on you tube. why discrimination is rife in new zealand attorneys in denial of the critical problems facing youth suicide. and well being, you know, very a lot about this, this whole area, this whole issue of young people and you suicide. what would you say back to paul? here who's just saying the government isn't paying enough attention? well, i think the it is this some considerable amount of, of truth to what is i mean, we work in that field. i said to people, what would you, what would you prefer to talk about the key to life,

which is hope or suicide prevention? you know, one of those is hopeful and the other one is fearful. so, you know, it's why we've named terrible trust the key to life. we found it that young young, young people, particularly in schools and not as afraid as our generation has to talk openly about how they've, how they're feeling. and one of the greatest skills you can give. give a kid is a vocabulary, especially a young young boy to express how they're feeling inside, you know, for many people in new zealand markings, the fish that they did the same talk openly about his, his many flaws. and so, and so we is, as adults have the courage to, to speak to our kids and to each other about the fact that our lives are hurt and

that all of us have been surely going to go through life stuff. things won't change, you know, they will just be taken around the, around the ages. and those people in positions of power need to actually start listening to the people in the communities and the, vist the controller responsibility back to the community. that's my view point. i want to go back to evan davis, who you remember as the minister for children, because our give you one second. let me come back in. yes. and he talks about real change. that there was a lot more work to do. he references thing unicef recommendations about what you need to do with young people to make sure that they have a healthy, safe future. and we're going to bring in a letter that you wrote to to see just burn in her government. just after they had that landslide win. i'm going to share the letter here. i want you briefly tell

us, what did you write, not just me, but any number of organizations all got together and you had a message to the government. what was a? yes. so this was an open letter that was signed by 70 plus organizations that are on the ground. calling for the government to left current benefit levels, which support that people receive here in new zealand. low income levels to livable levels before christmas. because we know what the situation like is on the ground for people and families and children. and we so we put that out there, 71st organizations that have supported the open letter and just send there. they're not likely to look at lifting levels. let me just let me just, i'm just taking a little bit, there's a appeared on t.v.

new zealand and she hadn't even read the letter yet. but what happened in this little clip was you can hear the number of issues she still has to contend with. and she would still seem to be on a high of her general election when let's go to langley and have this, have a look goes also as a governmental of children out of poverty is full of you're going to have petered out a little to this one if you see that i don't have a lot of the staff thought i just actually was over the weekend thinking of the organizations i need to sit down with again now that we have the freshmen and i'm sure they'll be among small considered mission, but not of child poverty, action money, cecilia national council woman see to use of the children. i'm sure you'll be wanting to talk to them. they're asking you to do in war and specifically rise, been offered and join. i'm asking us to constantly do more as well. in fact, my message of the legion was look, huge. progress has been right. we asked to launch strike without targets around child poverty. you know, we lifted a number out and we know the changes. we might still having in

a fix these how we watch these tweaks around the margins are shown and additional $100.00 a week on average for a sole parent looking after the family is not a tweak or on the edge. it is some of the most abstained of changes we've saying to benefits decads. now we have all these people saying slow enough. i will fix that advisory groups. it is not, i don't know, i've had this conversation before. now you have 50 organisations running. you don't want to buy into every time. it's not enough for me. we were never going to fix everything in 3 years. my intention is to keep going and i will theory very happily continue to work with each of those organizations as i have in the last to know, well there's such a big to do list, you suggest the government does for so there's a level of frustration there and i know that she, obviously i do will have a bit of frustration here as well. so i do in government generally i didn't mean quite. and this is where she's got a sort of a good international response in terms of her covert response, right? has been really fairly to a critic, listening to experts,

happy to bring together working groups and expert advice that i had this week, both wealthy expect advisory group report 47 recommendations, and i've only adopted a few of them so far. now in the last government, the 2017 to 2020, i could say, oh, well, we're in coalition with new zealand 1st, we can't do this, we can't do that. you know, they made that excuse a lot of times. so it's now this term where they have sort of free, right? obviously they've got to balance the budget to a certain extent and i've got close to going on as well. but they kind of had to need to sit down and figure out where these priorities are, because it's like to have an actual, well be bigfoot advisory group that you've put together. and peter only adopt a few of those recommendations that fairly damning over all this news. sure, sheets of a design and guidance that the government now that they have a now i'm slight general election when a lot of people saying this is what we can do is one instance what i would like to see just and to do, and this is what i'm lobbying for at the moment i will respond to our essential

health. mr. minister, peter is not. i'm going to stop the ship and i'm going to target the parliament. that's all of these. possibly the chinese, like restaurant brands, mcdonald's, all these places that are exporting my millions out of the monster part of the areas i need to just like pokies and liquor. i need to not look like someone thought about parts that we have to hide. because the problem with that is it will be higher. i mean, the families miss out on who could be going to miss out on school boards uniform because we're going to party that this is the gist of issue. what needs to happen is they need to put in, reinvest into the communities a portion of the profits into the community groups that are already being would be to come back r.b.c. darby's depression and everything else associated with so many people willing to help the government better by people who are impoverished in new zealand. brooke, you're one of them, you're right out that the action against poverty, i'm just looking at you on instagram. you've invited the prime minister to come see your, what has he taken you up on the invitation?

no, she hasn't. we've also had a response from a formal response from the open letter that we're paying and outlining, you know, as she said, as you say she's, she uses her signature kind of smiling and she seems really delivering messages that are actually really heartbreaking. yeah, i just she needs to do a bit of a candor more. they have the mandate, they've got the power and so i mean the communities that we serve on the ground, they just, they don't have the luxury of time to kind of sit around and wait for politicians to get to get it sorted, to figure out, actually what we're calling for is a change in our system and entertains in the values that we prioritize. what informs our public policy in their laws, where asking year the government to see everybody. everybody that exists here has

the right to exist and should have enough to meet their essential human needs. housing as a human right. and having enough money to thrive in this country is a human, right? and so the government has the power to do that. and so, you know, we're going to keep pushing for and we will see the actual transformational change that we made for our babies and our future. so yes, thank you. femi. thank you, brooke. thank you. thank you. joining us from my on social issues in new zealand that we don't always see because when so used to seeing a new zealanders, a shiny white knight in terms of not just democracy but also what they're doing right now in terms of controlling the country pandemics and going a little bit too low, the surface there to dig into of the issues. thank you. guests for being with us. thank you for your excellent questions. appreciate knew i was he next time on the

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