LINDSAY MITCHELL: Same-old, same-old
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The Social Investment Agency is a creation of the National government. It kicked off in July 2024 and is headed by the former police commissioner Andrew Coster.
According to Nicola Willis, “Despite the Government currently investing more than $70 billion every year into social services, we are not seeing the outcomes we want for all New Zealanders... So we’re taking a different approach. We want to look beyond good intentions in our policy-making and use hard evidence to invest in what works. Our new approach builds on better social science evidence and advances in technology."
That sounds promising. A break with the old.
Except the SIA's first Annual Report is as cloyingly correct as the usual run-of-the-mill regurgitation issued by public agencies.
Example 1:
"We are committed to creating a high-performing workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and can bring their whole selves to work."
This is silly, but fashionable, psychobabble. Clearly the approach isn't working anyway. Because in an environment also, "... committed to building an inclusive, equitable workplace and a workforce that reflects the growing diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand" 70 percent of the staff are women and 80 percent are European.
That's not very diverse or inclusive. Others didn't even want to bring a bit of themselves, let alone their whole selves.
Example 2:
"Te Aho Kura is our bespoke Māori Cultural Capability Plan ...Te Aho Kura primarily focuses on building employee knowledge and capability in te reo Māori, New Zealand History/Treaty of Waitangi, Tikanga/Kawa, Engagement with Māori, and how we apply these to our work."
On one hand the aim is "everyone feels valued, respected". On the other, the agency "focuses on building employee knowledge and capability in te reo Māori." Now call me picky but I sense some mixed messaging going on here. Bring your whole self by all means, just make sure it conforms to our values, which are by the way:
Example 3:
No translation available.
Example 4:
"We support our people to have a meaningful work/life balance, to proactively look after their physical and mental wellbeing ... As well as health and safety representatives, SIA has an active health and safety committee that meets every six weeks to consider a range of health, safety and wellbeing issues that matter to our people."
Our people? The concern of the Social Investment Agency should surely be 'other' people. The vulnerable they are tasked with helping.
There are the inevitable screeds about commitment to Treaty Settlements and identifying/reducing emissions (which they could have put a sizeable dent in by purging this report of claptrap.)
Yes, I know it is early days. The agency is in its infancy. But if you thought the public service was going to look or behave any differently under a National government, you will be disappointed.
Indications are that the propagandist public service is just marking time till a left wing administration is restored.
Lindsay Mitchell blogs here
"...SIA has an active health and safety committee that meets every six weeks to consider a range of health, safety and wellbeing issues that matter to our people."
And I bet the fallout from the fake pandemic and mRNA vaccines, never gets raised. When the Covid / vaccine tyranny issue gets raised in businesses, it is becoming increasingly rare that businesses owners say they that the vaccines were a good idea.
As Winston said in an interview that the entire world is waking up over the fake Covid pandemic and the damage done by the vaccines... ...But not in NZ.
No, in 'Aotearoa', aka the NZ version of the Truman show, the public are kept isolated, brainwashed. Along with the Maor…
"Our values... ...no translation available"
When values started becoming popular in business, they were hung on the reception wall or engraved in the glass doors. You could tell which companies understood values, and had spent time on them.
The ones that hadn't spent time and didn't understand values, always used single words. A cheap shot. As the Social Investment Agency has done. They are a nothing statement. For a value to have meaning, it is a term, phrase, or sentence, with qualifying verbs, adjectives etc.
No-one is going to bring their whole selves to work. After the massive breach of trust, personal privacy, and used as guinea pigs in an Ernest Blofeld evil medical experiment, the majority of thinking peopl…
What is it with these dumb-arsed fools? D.E.I. died out long ago and we are still restrained by some of the most stupid people this country has had to put up with. Increased taxing out of a financial problem caused by the people that caused the problem is Soviet methodology, and look where that got Russia and their socialist followers, yet the morons still control! If ACT doesn't show necessary leadership by getting Luxton and his band of losers out of the way they will follow National into obscurity.
With Coster in charge wht would we have expected anything less?
"At Some Point We Need To Quit Asking Who Needs To Pay More Taxes And Focus On Where The Hell All Of Our Money Is Going?" Clearly there is a huge amount of both waste and poor allocation of funding into woke ideology and top-heavy bureaucracy. So many useless reports are being produced at huge cost offering very little in the way of detailed practical solutions, just trotting out vague statements of intent and causation.