Or as the undervalued National M.P. and Nicholas namesake Louise Upston so ably articulated as she spoke at the conclusion of the parliamentary debate mid-afternoon today:
Why otherwise has the Government now dropped/dumped Louise Nicholas from her advocacy role on behalf of victims of sexual violence throughout Aotearoa-New Zealand?
As Upston well if succinctly expressed matters, there seem to be only three likely reasons (here repeated in the order she put them):
*She'd been increasingly (if privately/non-publicly) asking the Government a number of uncomfortable questions (presumably about their approach to the subject).
*Her erstwhile public criticisms of the (governing) Labour Party's own track record in the area, as per its youth camp scandal a year or so ago.
*The Labour Government simply doesn't like independent voices per se/fullstop;
(and certainly when it can't control those voices and the direction in which they might happen to go!)
(My own added explanation thrown in for good measure.)
A bit of a worry (as people say), and in my own view especially so in light of the way the previous (Helen Clark-led) Labour Government of 1999-2008 handled/dealt with New Zealand's late great prison reform advocate Celia Lashlie, similarly 'dumped' or the like for her own well-known independent-minded assessment of things in the criminal justice area...
No, the ultra-nice Left ain't really quite so nice after all, going by their (on-the-ground) track record anyhow!
Why otherwise has the Government now dropped/dumped Louise Nicholas from her advocacy role on behalf of victims of sexual violence throughout Aotearoa-New Zealand?
As Upston well if succinctly expressed matters, there seem to be only three likely reasons (here repeated in the order she put them):
*She'd been increasingly (if privately/non-publicly) asking the Government a number of uncomfortable questions (presumably about their approach to the subject).
*Her erstwhile public criticisms of the (governing) Labour Party's own track record in the area, as per its youth camp scandal a year or so ago.
*The Labour Government simply doesn't like independent voices per se/fullstop;
(and certainly when it can't control those voices and the direction in which they might happen to go!)
(My own added explanation thrown in for good measure.)
A bit of a worry (as people say), and in my own view especially so in light of the way the previous (Helen Clark-led) Labour Government of 1999-2008 handled/dealt with New Zealand's late great prison reform advocate Celia Lashlie, similarly 'dumped' or the like for her own well-known independent-minded assessment of things in the criminal justice area...
No, the ultra-nice Left ain't really quite so nice after all, going by their (on-the-ground) track record anyhow!
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