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Speaker 1: What's worse than somebody who doesn't give a shit about

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Speaker 1: poor people and victims of domestic violence, somebody who says

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Speaker 1: they care about them, spends billions of dollars in vain

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Speaker 1: trying to fix it and actually makes the problem worse.

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Speaker 1: At the weekend, the Minister Karen Shaw launched the Family

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Speaker 1: Violence Action Plan, which is basically a redo of the

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Speaker 1: twenty five year plan that her predecessor, Madame and Davidson

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Speaker 1: launched during her three years in office. And we all

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Speaker 1: know the prevailing narrative. Nobody cares about the poor and

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Speaker 1: the downtrodden quite like the Greens, So they had these

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Speaker 1: two very important portfolios in the last government, homelessness and

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Speaker 1: family violence. People are already trolling Poor Karen over her plan,

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Speaker 1: but let's take a look back at the Greens results,

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Speaker 1: shall we? And remember the three years prior to the

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Speaker 1: Greens it was Labor in charge, So fellow travelers, homelessness

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Speaker 1: and the census from twenty twenty three, which is when

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Speaker 1: Labor was booted out of office, homelessness those people living

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Speaker 1: in severely deprived housing was up two point one percent,

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Speaker 1: an extra thirteen thousand kiwis so a big, fat F

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Speaker 1: for fail Family Violence. June twenty twenty three. The numbers

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Speaker 1: tell us one hundred and seventy seven thousand family harm

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Speaker 1: investigations recorded by the New Zealand Police. That's a forty

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Speaker 1: nine percent increase on twenty seventeen. So that is a big,

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Speaker 1: fat fail with a capital F. So the minister who

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Speaker 1: supposedly cared more about these issues than any other, from

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Speaker 1: a party who cares more deeply than any other, took

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Speaker 1: our most vulnerable backwards. All that despite being part of

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Speaker 1: the highest spending government in this country's history, who doubled

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Speaker 1: our national debt to GDP ratio and pumped hundreds of

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Speaker 1: millions extra in dollars into well being initiatives and wrote

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Speaker 1: a twenty five year plan. What is that anyway? What

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Speaker 1: major company do you know writes a twenty five year plan.

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Speaker 1: It's a nonsense, most yes, but twenty five. Here's a prediction.

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Speaker 1: By the time this plan turns twenty five, nobody in

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Speaker 1: Parliament will remember it. The dust collected on it so

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Speaker 1: thick you could probably house the homeless underneath it. The

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Speaker 1: point here is just because somebody tells you they care

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Speaker 1: more about something, it doesn't mean it's true. And most importantly,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't mean they can turn care and compassion into action.

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