{"id":3771,"date":"2015-03-19T07:52:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2015-03-19T07:52:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:52:25","slug":"sad-day-as-pm-votes-against-feeding-hungry-kids-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=3771","title":{"rendered":"Sad day as PM votes against feeding hungry kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Metiria-Conference-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3768\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Metiria-Conference-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Metiria Conference 2014\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Metiria-Conference-2014.jpg 115w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Metiria-Conference-2014-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Meteria Turei -Green Party MP<\/p>\n<h4>John Key and the National Government\u00a0showed their true colours today, voting against a Bill to feed hungry kids in New Zealand schools, the Green Party said.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/feed-the-kids-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-119 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/feed-the-kids-logo.jpg\" alt=\"feed-the-kids-logo\" width=\"442\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/feed-the-kids-logo.jpg 442w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/feed-the-kids-logo-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/feed-the-kids-logo-75x50.jpg 75w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/feed-the-kids-logo-50x35.jpg 50w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/feed-the-kids-logo-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Feed the Kids Bill failed by the narrowest of margins in Parliament today, as the Green Party, Labour, New Zealand First, and the Maori Party all rallied behind the Bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake no mistake, John Key voted against children today and showed how completely out of touch he is with the needs of New Zealand\u2019s poorest kids,\u201d Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot one of us would stand in front of a hungry child and deny them something to eat. It\u2019s a shameful day when 61 MPs collectively stand before all of our nations hungry kids and deny them a good lunch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery hungry school kid could be fed for a fraction of the cost of Northland\u2019s bribe bridges. It\u2019s just a matter of priorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Green Party believes it\u2019s inevitable that New Zealand will provide the funding for a lunches in schools for those kids who need it. Today shows we will simply need to change the Government to do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to salute Hone Harawira for bringing the Feed the Kids Bill to Parliament and the coalition of community groups and NGOs who have fought so hard to win the hearts of the Government so that it would pass,\u201d Mrs Turei said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Met1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-102 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Met1-1024x540.jpg\" alt=\"Met\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Met1-1024x540.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Met1-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Met1-495x261.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Left -Maria Trinder, Busby Noble, Meteria Turei, Joe Trinder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Meteria Turei -Green Party MP John Key and the National Government\u00a0showed their true colours today, voting against a Bill to feed hungry kids in New Zealand schools, the Green Party said. The Feed the Kids Bill failed by the narrowest of margins in Parliament today, as the Green Party, Labour, New Zealand First, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-policy","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771"}],"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=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3776,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions\/3776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}