The Sunday Long Read - Vested Wealth
4/5/2025
Our Vested Wealth Problem
When I finished my documentary Inside Child Poverty back in 2011, I said the most politically incorrect word to say in our country at that time was “poverty”.
The response, in some quarters, was as angry as it was rapid. “There is no such thing as ‘Child Poverty’ the political right declared, and even if there was, “you can’t measure it” giggled Minister of Social Development, Paula Bennett, one day in parliament. But then, Children’s Commissioner Dr Russell Wills assembled a group of academics, who not only measured Child Poverty but made a number of recommendations on how to alleviate it.
10 years later when I revisited my 2011 documentary to see what had changed for our nation’s children, and what had not, I concluded it by speaking the latest politically incorrect word – “Wealth”.
Why?
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