GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – 10 years since the Child Poverty documentary, what's changed?
Almost 10 years ago I made a documentary called Inside Child Poverty. Some people (largely members of John Key’s government) got very angry with me. I was a left wing pinko journo making this stuff up in an election year. There was no such thing as “Child Poverty” and “even if there was,” said then MP and Minister Paula Bennett you couldn’t measure it. Well a group of academics at the invitation of the then Commissioner for Children proved you COULD measure it. And in the last Labour Government we saw the establishment of what I called for at the end of my programme – a Ministry...
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