Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 4/9/24

Need for change in the grocery sector attracts greater attention than govt’s modest spending on gender equality in horticulture

Good grief! Is this the work of National Party Minister of the Crown?

The press statement language has the whiff of the stuff produced by the social engineers in the previous government:

Point of Order: Empowerment and partnership.....

........both concepts come into the considerations of Ardern’s Treaty-sensitive government

“Empowerment” is a bit like “Treaty partnership”. Just a decade or so ago you would rarely have heard of it.

Since then, its use has burgeoned and its meaning – like the meaning of the Treaty of Waitangi’s three simple clauses – has evolved to be applied to whatever the government wants to validate.

In a book titled Empowerment: The History of a Key Concept in Contemporary Development Discourse, Anne-Emmanuelle Calvès writes:

Mike Hosking: It's a crime the government will let so much produce rot

 

What a deflating experience it was Friday reading watching listening to all those in the horticulture industry responding to the government’s 2,000 Recognised Seasonal worker decision.

The manipulation I would like to think hasn’t passed most of us by.

The shabby and shoddy way these farmers are being treated is really an outrage dressed up as a solution.

They all said basically what they had to say when you’re dealing with the government and afraid to say what you really think for fear of your livelihood being stuffed completely.