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efore i head out leafletting again i thought i d just write a quick final summary of the campaign best moments the young feminists electoral panel turn out and questions the plimmerton meet the candidate meeting visiting community groups and elders in porirua when house after house said they were going to vote green phag our soiree being put through my paces by people at the market and of course all of your support worst moment s national party people throwing things at me and unnecessary drama biggest issues being raised by people housing low wages a decline in funding and lack of stability in community funding the sandhills expressway rena education welfare health a lack of hope and opportunity for the young and an increasing lack of faith in the system our response housing the greens will extend the home insulation scheme to a further 200 000 houses and build a further 2000 houses for social housing low wages the greens will raise the minimum wage to 15ph immediately and then peg it to 2 3rds of the average wage i spoke to a couple of guys around my age the other weekend one was a carpenter and the other a mechanic their wages have only gone up by about 5 over the last 10 years i believe we need to return to the idea of a living wage and employers and employees having a fair contract relationship not employers offering charity to their workers in the form of wages as all too much of the discussion around employment seem to suggest funding for community organisations the greens will reduce reporting requirements fight to bring back cogs which is a community administered govt funding scheme that works using the knowledge of the community and seek to extend funding periods to ensure stability and security the sandhills expressway the greens will do whatever we can to stop this 8 12 metre high expressway being ploughed through the heart of our gorgeous community rena off shore drilling the greens will put a moratorium on further deep sea oil exploration until we know we have the capacity to respond to any disaster and we can be satisfied the companies have good safety records we will also work to stop ships of convenience having such free access to our waters education the greens will scrap national standards and reduce staff student ratios and better resource our teachers and schools to work with children from a range of cultures with a range of learning needs we will address child poverty poor housing and over crowding to even up the playing field for children in school benefits the greens will extend the in work tax credit to give beneficiary families an extra 60 a week in the hand we will also stand up against the idea that everyone should be in paid work we know and accept that until we have enough jobs eliminate domestic violence child abuse mental and physical illness and create an enabling society that does not discriminate against people with disabilities we will need welfare we will try to support benefits at a level that will not exclude all these people and their children from participation in society health the greens will seek to make sure health care services are appropriately tailored to the communities they serve and we will adequately resource prevention and early intervention young people the greens will radically reduce child poverty and give children a better start and this in turn will help young people we will also create a smart green economy that will provide meaningful work for young people a lack of faith the greens will maintain our integrity possibly the most important thing we can do in parliament we will work towards a participatory democracy and promote transparency and honesty in all our dealings we will hold on to voting according to our policy so everyone knows what we stand for i do believe we are different from the other parties our values are clearly articulated and available for all to see ecological wisdom social justice non violence and appropriate decision making so in short i think the greens have got the answers for the communities concerns and we can provide these solutions without going into debt or selling off assets it s amazing what can happen when idealists get practical 7 for the greens and i will be an mp next week leave a comment posted in uncategorized my speech to the wellington young feminists election panel posted on november 9 2011 7 comments i m jan logie the green party candidate for mana and with your party vote i along with the wonderful holly walker beside me will be one of the new green mps in parliament i want to start first by acknowledging our te tiriti o waitangi children youth disability elders ethnic and rainbow policies are as important as our women s policy when it comes to understanding the changes needed to achieve gender equity in aotearoa we are always mindful of our diversities and the potential to unintentionally increase inequalities if we work towards the liberation of the generic woman who all too often seems to be cis middle aged white middle class straight and physically and mentally abled we also recognize not everyone is male or female tonight i will talk about gender based violence the statistics in aotearoa new zealand are horrific and as many of us know dearly the lived reality of this violence is much much worse the pain and energy and work that we spend surviving and trying to heal ourselves and those we care for in a culture that predominantly still distrusts and blames us is an ongoing tragedy we clearly need to change the culture that still too often automatically blames or disbelieves women tonight i will speak mostly about response measures needed but that is not where the balance of effort is needed we need to properly resource and support a variety of prevention measures but on to responses needed to support women leaving violent relationships the greens will ensure the benefits provide enough of a safety net to enable women to stay away from places that are known to their abuser such as work and really focus on looking after themselves and their children if they have any until they re feeling safe again this will mean increasing benefits and not pressuring people to get back into paid work as soon as it s available violence is a failure of our society and an adequate income during a time of transition is surely the least we can do to provide reparation we will also raise the minimum wage to 15 immediately and up to 2 3rds of the minimum wage within 3 years strengthen collective bargaining bring back the training incentive allowance and address equal pay to enable women to be financially independent in the longer term there is a chronic housing shortage in this country and many women become homeless when they leave their relationships refuge is there though often full but it can only ever be a short term option the green party will increase support to refuge and increase the stocks of warm healthy social housing maaori pacifika refugee and disabled women should not be forced into relying on our prejudiced private rental market we will also ensure quality affordable child care and parenting help and adequately resource womens refuge rape crisis and other allied community groups and govt agencies to help ensure the courts police and winz follow policy and practice consistently this is not happening now legal aid needs to be reinstated and easily accessible so women can actually enter the justice system the national party is proposing to double the penalties for breaches of protection orders and give women some money to put locks on their doors doubling the penalties may just mean police are even less likely than now to enforce the orders or women will end up not getting child support as their ex pays off the fines the green party believes we should listen to women and shape our policy around their needs not what might sound good to people wanting to get tough on crime an increasingly punitive approach is not helpful many women still love their partners and want their children to have both parents harsher penalties are not the solution women are asking for the police to consistently enforce the orders and not interrogate them to decide if they will or not in terms of sexual violence i believe there are three things we need to do one we need to adequately resource the agencies working with survivors and change the charities act and funding contracts to enable them to advocate strongly for change without compromising their funding currently all too many community organizations are effectively censored by government policy and practice secondly we need to actually start making the change away from the adversarial justice system that is so often revictimising women and children and completely failing to bring perpetrators to justice thirdly we need to go back to challenging the socio cultural and political systems institutions values and practices that continue to support gender based violence directly or indirectly we need to undermine gender roles victim blaming and sexism and promote non violence we ve got a lot of work to do i hope you will party vote green this year so we can do this work together 7 comments posted in uncategorized the value of work posted on october 31 2011 1 comment in my humble opinion robyn kahukiwa is a national treasure her art has supported political movements changed lives and adorned walls in wealthy homes it makes me very sad that the print she sold at the kapiti arts trail was going towards her panel beating bills i m sure she was relieved to sell it but really is this how we value people who contribute so much to our society speaking of national treasures i think the people mostly women who look after our elderly older people are amazing while there can definitely be personal rewards for caring for people in the later years of life i don t think many of them get to experience these rewards very often as part of their paid work all we have to do is imagine ourselves as old and infirm or suffering from dementia to realise these are the workers on whom many peoples entire lives let alone quality of life depends to pay them the minimum wage of 13 per hour is to my mind an abuse of power and an exploitation of their labour that s less than 500 per week for working full time in a physically and emotionally demanding job with life and death consequences these wages are keeping people and their children in poverty their labour is subsidising the quality of life of other new zealanders because we do not value them to paraphrase helen kelly from a meeting the other night we need to actually put it out there that according to our labour laws we no longer expect someone working full time to earn a wage that will pay their basic expenses in our major cities less than 500 pw will not enable an inidividual let alone a family to live healthily what has happened in this country that we allow that and at the same time allow some ceos to earn over 2 500 per hour to believe this is wrong is not a politic of envy or nostalgia to pretend that trickle down economics works for all of us is dishonest i don t believe most new zealanders think that we re all better off because the ce of westpac earned of 5 5 million dollars and the 150 people on the rich list got 7billion dollars richer last year in fact i think i remember most of us being told to tighten our belts because we were in a recession as a global community and as a country we desperately need to reassess how we value work and what kind of societies we want to live in a good start would raising the top tax rate and setting the minimum wage at 2 3rds of the average then we could actually cost out how much is needed to live healthily and participate in society and maybe even consider a universal basic income to ensure everyone including our national treasures can do that 1 comment posted in uncategorized could kapiti fall victim to an oil disaster posted on october 20 2011 leave a comment all of new zealand has been watching the environmental disaster unfolding in the bay of plenty as i write the broken container ship rena still sits precariously on the astrolabe reef and bad weather is closing in the ship holds 1700 tonnes of fuel oil and innumerable containers already 300 tonnes of oil has leaked into our environment and a meagre 90 tonnes has been safely pumped out of its tanks here on the beautiful kapiti coast some are asking could the kapiti coast fall victim to an oil disaster sadly the answer is yes in november last year an oil spill in taranaki led to oil washing up on our beaches here in kapiti a year ago i raised concerns about prioritising short term economic gains at the expense of the environment i pointed out that the environment is the basis of our core economy as well as our lifestyle this week an oil exploration ship arrived in taranaki to start exploring for oil off raglan for us oil giant anadarko anadarko was a part owner of the deepwater horizon well which leaked 780 million litres into the gulf of mexico since 1992 new zealand has allowed uncontrolled entry to ships like the rena that do not meet safety standards in their country of origin letting unsafe unwarranted ships with thousands of tonnes of oil on board into our harbours is irresponsible one of the reasons the green party is here is to help ensure that the government does everything it can to protect our beautiful country this is about much more than politics we are doing everything we can on the ground in tauranga to help out with the clean up local greens will be out in force helping to look after the coastline and our mps will be up there to provide support where they can green solutions the greens would stop deep sea oil drilling and exploration the rena disaster shows that we don t have the capacity to deal with potentially massive and catastrophic deep sea oil spills there needs to be higher standards for coastal shipping that supports the use of local crews and ships that know new zealand waters and hazards new zealand needs to invest in our emergency maritime service so that they have the capacity and resources to respond quickly if accidents do happen we also need a stronger legal framework so that when accidents do happen the corporations responsible are financially liable for their mistakes new zealanders should not have to bail out corporations for damaging our beautiful country there needs to be better enforcement of marine regulations by maritime nz to make them effective in protecting our marine environment and there needs to be an independent inquiry into the speed of the government response maritime regulations and the capacity of out maritime services to respond to accidents the solutions we need to prevent our beautiful kapiti coast falling foul of an oil spill are known all we need now is the will to make them happen leave a comment posted in uncategorized rushing towards a surveillance state posted on september 22 2011 1 comment 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