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Posted this on a forum for a policy paper Im doing this year: Labour’s BEST START PAYMENT policy announcement $60 per week for a baby’s first year of life, universal for all families earning under $150,000 per year. ‘Why are they paying this out to people who earn up to 150 grand!? Surely we need to be supporting the genuinely poor?’ Generic approach’s towards analysing different policies will attend to certain views i.e. who is missing out, who is the target group, area etc. or how the policy will be applied as analysing policies broadens its scope and to some extent dangerously; because predicting motives can lead to moral panic or mis-leading predictions. With this basis in mind it could be argued that Labours policy is universally supporting a global trend; one that creates collective awareness amongst the lower - medial - upper classes. Hence social needs are addressed through such collective identities, and merges people to recognize the benefits through a single society approach. Alternatively this kind of collectiveness causes a dilution of diversity or autonomy as seen by the bi-cultural to multi-cultural approach within Aotearoa. Furthermore the collective effect permits manipulation of linking policies concerning social development, taxation or other governing sectors, towards lower to medial classes within New Zealand; hence population focus is diverted away from specific areas of social needs, or encompassed by promoting their identified need amongst the many. A simple example of this could be; separated parents – as an added payment towards assisting the new-born, will this reduce the existing assistance and therefore creating a lot more smaller payments (under the ‘Family assistance’ umbrella) to replace the one identified benefit, and allowing for more manipulation towards means testing? As a singular group the accountability becomes diluted and problematic.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 03:44:39 +0000

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