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John Carran: Jarden Economist and Investment Strategist on today's OCR decision · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So Aranga Tamariki is getting rid of its target to
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  Speaker 1: place fifty eight percent of the kids in its care
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  Speaker 1: with wider faro or family, and it's also ditching a
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  Speaker 1: target for investment with Maori organizations. Twenty three percent of
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  Speaker 1: their funding was targeted for organizations with Maori and Ewe links.
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  Speaker 1: The Minister of Children Karantur says this is part of
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  Speaker 1: OT's safety first approach, and she said the targets were
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  Speaker 1: outdated and went against the need not race directive, and
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  Speaker 1: she was concerned whether the priority of Mari organizations were
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  Speaker 1: getting in the way of the quality and efficacy of
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  Speaker 1: the services being provided. And all of that makes sense
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  Speaker 1: to me. The ingrained belief in our children's social workers
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  Speaker 1: that kids are always better off if rehome with farno
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  Speaker 1: or family always seemed counterfactual to me, because in many
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  Speaker 1: cases the abuse directed at the kids was at the
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  Speaker 1: hand of farno or family themselves, people that have been
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  Speaker 1: raised by other people in their family, but at their
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  Speaker 1: own parenting. So why would we give the kids back
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  Speaker 1: to the people that raise the people who can't raise
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  Speaker 1: the kids. It often seemed to me that children were
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  Speaker 1: being thrown right back into the very cauldron we were
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  Speaker 1: trying to help them escape from. And there have been
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  Speaker 1: generations of examples, haven't there. Let's not forget baby Ru.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't mentioned Ru's name for a while. He was
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  Speaker 1: murdered in October twenty twenty three. Nobody has been charged
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  Speaker 1: for killing him. There was anger then and anger now
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  Speaker 1: when the police who were there when he suffered, Sorry
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  Speaker 1: when the people who were there when he suffered did
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  Speaker 1: not cooperate with the police. They were there, they say nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Those people were and are Rosie Modonga, her partner, Dylan Ross,
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  Speaker 1: and Ru's mother Storm Wall. They were, and they are
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  Speaker 1: Ruse Farno. What happened people, It's been two years and
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  Speaker 1: two Christmas is what happened two birthdays. The uplifting of
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  Speaker 1: kids is a very serious thing, to be housed in
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  Speaker 1: safe places with good people, but the history of Oranga
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  Speaker 1: tamariki suggests that too many of the supposed saviors are
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  Speaker 1: in fact predators hiding in plain sight. There is no
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  Speaker 1: easy answer to this, which is why I've spoken about
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  Speaker 1: this for decades. And the only thing we can have
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  Speaker 1: is strong vigilance by our agencies, by Olanga tamariki. And
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  Speaker 1: the only thing we can hope for is that good
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  Speaker 1: people come forward to help the kids that have been abused.
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