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Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: More public reports released this week showing abuse still occurring by Oranga Tamariki staff towards vulnerable children is just another damming indictment of a pākehā based welfare system with hollow values that are obscenely counterproductive.
Pākehā neoliberal welfare is designed to be as cheap as possible with the only justification for welfare being that early intervention saves the State downstream costs.
Poorly monitored low wage staff run amok in these shadowed places for the vulnerable. This is the moral worth of a valueless state welfare system, damaged children being hurt by cheap economic policy as social policy.