Well done New Zealand for planning, staging and creating a wonderful
Rugby World Cup. Visitors from many nations have found us to be caring,
warm, engaging, generous and hospitable. That's a reputation worth
having and building on.
Why then are we not as caring as a nation when it comes to our own children and young people? When I look at the appalling statistics on child abuse and neglect, youth unemployment, crime and suicide I must agree with Dame Anne Salmond when she wrote in the Herald that "more than a change of government, what is needed is a change of heart".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10760501
Why then are we not as caring as a nation when it comes to our own children and young people? When I look at the appalling statistics on child abuse and neglect, youth unemployment, crime and suicide I must agree with Dame Anne Salmond when she wrote in the Herald that "more than a change of government, what is needed is a change of heart".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10760501
