tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post7585471603437343416..comments2023-10-07T22:37:49.244+13:00Comments on The Hand Mirror: Election Survey: Kay Murray (Alliance)katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742280289613450293noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-64467818450803652892008-10-16T12:33:00.000+13:002008-10-16T12:33:00.000+13:00Well, it's not clear to me. But YMMV.Well, it's not clear to me. But YMMV.DPF:TLDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06372937855256319716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-265222773689629932008-10-16T12:06:00.000+13:002008-10-16T12:06:00.000+13:00Quite a pointless semantic quibble, I would've tho...Quite a pointless semantic quibble, I would've thought. It's not like it's not patently clear what Kay was referring to.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07676474175472577715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-59848040416435098212008-10-16T11:55:00.000+13:002008-10-16T11:55:00.000+13:00That's precisely what I'm getting at, Anna, but to...That's precisely what I'm getting at, Anna, but to me that doesn't equate with 'bearing the brunt'. It would be rather like saying that farmers bear the brunt of infectious diseases in cattle, when actually, the cattle do.<BR/><BR/>Just a semantic quibble I know, but semantics can be quite important in electoral campaigns.DPF:TLDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06372937855256319716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-26131026082349897162008-10-16T11:51:00.000+13:002008-10-16T11:51:00.000+13:00Perhaps women bear more of the responsibility for ...Perhaps women bear more of the responsibility for trying to mitigate/manage child poverty?Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06076244041878300351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-92207668111814870312008-10-16T09:47:00.000+13:002008-10-16T09:47:00.000+13:00Women bear the brunt of child poverty in New Zeala...<I>Women bear the brunt of child poverty in New Zealand.</I><BR/><BR/>This statement is weird to me. I can think of two possible ways to interpret it.<BR/><BR/>One is that female children are more likely to experience poverty than male children. True, but the word 'women' is weird.<BR/><BR/>The other is that this is intended as part of the same statement she makes in her next sentence, with "It is generally women who are trying to feed and clothe children..." While, again, this is true, I wouldn't call that 'bearing the brunt' of child poverty.<BR/><BR/>I'd say that the people who bear the brunt of child poverty are the children.DPF:TLDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06372937855256319716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-16097275242960339862008-10-16T08:49:00.000+13:002008-10-16T08:49:00.000+13:00Completely agree about the issues in the caregivin...Completely agree about the issues in the caregiving sector. The model whereby taxpayer funding is used to push up wages in private enterprises is ethically awful (I think) as well as being ultimately unworkable.<BR/><BR/>There are some serious issues in the caregivers workforce. Lip service is paid to the upskilling of workers (and it's great to give these workers educational opportunities), but unless there's a change in remuneration, upskilled workers will simply take their skills to a new area of the workforce which pays properly.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06076244041878300351noreply@blogger.com