A powerful new report reveals far more women and girls are dying from systemic, preventable violence in New Zealand than previously acknowledged – and the national response still falls short.
I agree that it is terrible so many women and girls are killed by men in New Zealand.
The report found Māori women and girls are significantly overrepresented among family violence homicide victims. “Between 2018 and 2022, had rates been equal across ethnicities, an estimated 25 more Māori women and girls would be alive today.”
“This is not about individual acts,” the report stressed. “It’s about systemic inequities, colonisation, racism, poverty and the failure to respond to community needs.”
You often get reports making this assertion., My question is what is their evidence or proof of this?
The left never seem to regard individuals who do terrible things as being responsible for what they do – it is always the fault of the system or some ism.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders
5 comments:
One way to look at this is how Jacinda and Labour gave money to gangs, increased handouts to these offenders and also passed policies to keep these offenders out of prison. They also gave billions of dollars to Maori. Their social policies were the exact opposite of what the media is complaining about. Did that reduce violent crime? No, violent crime skyrocketed.
Quite right David and I’m over it. Time these individuals took a good hard look at their life choices-drugs firstly!
I expect that 100% of the perpetrators of this violence would be eligible to be on the Maori roll.
The only thing this has to do with colonisation is the fact that the latter brought the ability to measure and record it. In every other respect it is a reflection of a broken, corrupt, irresponsible, self-centred culture. When are Maori going to start 'honouring the Treaty' and live by the laws of this land - including common decency to one another?
Handing out welfare payments to socially disadvantaged people on the basis of the number of kids you have produced, will only produce more socially disadvantaged kids, yes? If these materially-deprived households are where the domestic violence lies, then let's quit bank-rolling this never-ending inter-generational cycle of injury, emotional damage, murder and child abuse. Poverty per se does not necessarily lead to violence. Alcohol and drugs principally drive domestic violence, gang violence, and road deaths, both of which are a personal choice. And not just for Maori and Pacifika.
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