Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 18/6/24

Good news for grannies and kiddies – but see what Woods didn’t mention when enthusing about $5.4m aero space boost

Today’s news from our ministerial masterminds is not likely to be the stuff of great controversy

The Department of Internal Affairs is upgrading the Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System, which blocks access to websites known to host child sexual abuse material.

Eric Crampton: The stakes are too high for this much stupidity

The New Zealand Economics Association annual meetings are a great way of keeping abreast of what the country’s economists are working on.

And sometimes they’re downright depressing.

At last week’s meetings, Auckland University of Technology’s Professor Rhema Vaithianathan’s keynote explained what she’s been up to over the past decade.

Her team has been helping American child protection services to do a better job protecting kids.

NZCPR Weekly: Protecting Vulnerable Children

Dear NZCPR Reader,   

In this week’s NZCPR newsletter, we look into attempts by tribal groups to privatise New Zealand’s child protection services, our NZCPR Guest Commentator Dr Michael Bassett identifies the underlying causes of child abuse, and our poll asks whether you believe that tribal control of child protection services in New Zealand would deliver better outcomes for at-risk children.

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NZCPR Weekly: The Dangers of Tribalism

Dear NZCPR Reader,   

This week we look into the dangers of tribalism and we outline the campaign that’s being run to resurrect the Maori Party; our NZCPR Guest Commentator former Canadian Judge Brian Giesbrecht warns of disastrous developments in tribal control of child welfare; and our poll asks whether you believe the care and protection of children in New Zealand should be based on race.

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NZCPR Weekly: The Best Interests of the Child

Dear NZCPR Reader,   

This week we look into the controversy over child protection services and we highlight our concerns over the dangerous call for race-based partnerships, our NZCPR Guest Commentator former Canadian Judge Brian Giesbrecht – in an article that I cannot recommend highly enough – warns against taking an indigenous approach to child welfare, and our poll asks whether you support the call by Maori leaders for child protection services to be run by iwi.

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NZCPR Weekly: Time for a Change in Welfare Policy

Dear NZCPR Reader,   

This week, we examine the UNICEF report on child well-being and raise concerns about how Government policies are endangering vulnerable children by prioritising culture over safety, our NZCPR Guest Commentator is retired Canadian Judge Brian Giesbrecht, who explains how race-based policies have destroyed child welfare services in Manitoba, and this week’s poll asks whether you believe Maori culture should dominate New Zealand’s new child protection service. .

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Lindsay Mitchell: The new child protection direction

In today's NZ Herald Dr Ian Hyslop takes fire at the government and its plans for vulnerable children: