July 10, 2014
Domestic violence a personal campaign
The Maori Party’s Ikaroa Rawhiti candidate says domestic violence is something that can hang over whanau and communities for years.
Marama Fox spoke at a Women’s Refuge symposium last week about the slaying of seven of her cousins in the Wairarapa 22 years ago.
She says in the decade after Raymond Ratima’s murderous rampage in the Judds Rd murders there were another five children killed in the Wairarapa,
"It’s something that has been at the heart of Wairarapa for such a long time that people have been shocked, have felt the real pain, it’s still very raw even these many years later. All of those children, every single one of them, are related to me directly and to us here in Wairarapa because we are so closely knit. When these things are happening to our children, when we continue to suffer the injustices of poverty and all of those sorts of things, then really it’s time to stand up," Ms Fox says.
The Maori Party has policies to address family violence, including adequate resourcing for police to enforce protection orders, making police act on all complaints of breaches of protection orders, and adequate and sustainable funding for sexual violence and domestic violence services.
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