{"id":10045,"date":"2017-04-11T21:45:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T08:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10045"},"modified":"2017-04-11T21:45:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T08:45:11","slug":"mana-calls-for-independent-inquiry-into-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10045","title":{"rendered":"MANA CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO ABUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HoneAvatar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5537\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HoneAvatar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a>\u00a0MANA Leader Hone Harawira<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ThinkstockPhotos-450746289_620x310.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5556\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ThinkstockPhotos-450746289_620x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ThinkstockPhotos-450746289_620x310.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ThinkstockPhotos-450746289_620x310-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ThinkstockPhotos-450746289_620x310-495x248.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u201cThe hypocrisy of government launching a Ministry for\u00a0Vulnerable Children, while refusing to launch an inquiry into the abuse of children in state care is mindboggling\u201d <em>said MANA Leader Hone Harawira \u201cIts point the bone everywhere else but the mirror \u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><em>\u201c100,000 kids have been taken into state care since 1950, and I don\u2019t know of any who talk about it being a pleasant experience\u201d said Harawira \u201cThe horror stories we saw on Sunday\u2019s The Hui are just the tip of an iceberg\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><em>\u201cThose who have tried to make complaints tell us how hard it is to get over the shame and embarrassment to want to do something, then how hard it is to get somebody to listen, how long it takes for anyone to respond, how difficult it is to get at the truth, and how traumatising it is to be dragged through the whole ugly memory again\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><em>\u201cMore than 50,000 of the kids caught up in this whole sordid affair are Maori, and they deserve our support\u201d said Harawira \u201cMaori MPs from all sides of the house need to stand together on this. These are our people our cousins our whanau\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><em>\u201cThere must be official recognition of the problem and an independent inquiry into the historical abuse of children in state care\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MANA Leader Hone Harawira \u201cThe hypocrisy of government launching a Ministry for\u00a0Vulnerable Children, while refusing to launch an inquiry into the abuse of children in state care is mindboggling\u201d said MANA Leader Hone Harawira \u201cIts point the bone everywhere else but the mirror \u2026\u201d \u201c100,000 kids have been taken into state care since 1950, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10047,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions\/10047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}