Dear friends

This replicates the circumstance in Britain - where the Blair 'New 
Labour' government has simply entrenched the Thatcher socio-cide ("There 
is no such thing as society") - and people are accommodated to it.

This seems to be the problem.

Best

john

************

BTW -excellent viewing at the Senate hearing yesterday!

Well done all three and the Committee, too.  More when I have 
freed-fingers time.

*************

Dennis Raphael wrote:

>from Jamie Pearce <[log in to unmask]> on 27/02/2007 02:08:31 PM
>
>To:   Dennis Raphael
>Subject:    RE: NZ and the neoliberal agenda
>
>Dear Dennis,
>
>I read with your interest your recent editorial in the Health
>PromotionJournal of Australia. I fully agreed with the thrust of your
>article and the recommendations are of course wholly sensible. However, one
>line the paper intrigued me. In your conclusion you state "While it is
>apparent that Australian public policy has been moving more and more
>towards a neo-liberal US-type model, reversals are possible. Indeed, New
>Zealandtook a similar neo-liberal course during the 1990s, but has now
>reversed direction."
>
>The last part of this statement might surprise many of us
>working in NZ. Whilst it could be argued that the current NZ government are
>not pursuing the neoliberal politics of the late 1980s and early 1990s with
>quite the same rigour, I would contest that we have witnessed a 'reversal'.
>
>Health inequalities, whether measured socially, geographically or
>ethnically are (as elsewhere) at unprecedented high levels and continue to
>rise. See for example some of my work:
>
>http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/dyl013v1?ijkey=nqd0JUy7BFaFY&keytype=ref&siteid=intjepid
>
>
>http://www.geog.canterbury.ac.nz/department/staff/jamie/2006-5%20October%20D6%20Pearce%20-%20revised.pdf
>
>There is little evidence to suggest they have reversed. Inequalities in
>income have continued to rise and we have one of the highest levels of
>child poverty in the OECD. In Christchurch, where I live, we have estimated
>that around 10% of the population regularly rely on food parcels from food
>banks. A recent report suggested that 80,000 NZ children (in a total NZ
>population of 4 million) go to school each day without breakfast.
>Government initiatives to assist low income households have not benefited
>those right at the bottom of the pile.
>
>I think the best interpretation that the current Labour govt can hope to
>claim is that they have softened some of the worst excesses of
>neoliberalism. It is contentious as to whether this can be interpreted as a
>reversal though.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Jamie Pearce
>
>Dr Jamie Pearce
>
>GeoHealth Laboratory, Department of Geography,
>
>Universityof Canterbury- Te Whare Wananga O Waitaha,
>
>Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand.
>
>Tel: +64 (0) 3 364 2987 x7943
>www.geohealth.canterbury.ac.nz
>
>///
>  
>

-------------------
Problems/Questions? Send it to Listserv owner: [log in to unmask]


To unsubscribe, send the following message in the text section -- NOT the subject header --  to [log in to unmask]

SIGNOFF SDOH

DO NOT SEND IT BY HITTING THE REPLY BUTTON. THIS SENDS THE MESSAGE TO THE ENTIRE LISTSERV AND STILL DOES NOT REMOVE YOU.

To subscribe to the SDOH list, send the following message to [log in to unmask] in the text section, NOT in the subject header.

SUBSCRIBE SDOH yourfirstname yourlastname

To post a message to all 1200+ subscribers, send it to [log in to unmask]
Include in the Subject, its content, and location and date, if relevant.

For a list of SDOH members, send a request to [log in to unmask]

To receive messages only once a day, send the following message to [log in to unmask]
SET SDOH DIGEST

To view the SDOH archives, go to: https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/sdoh.html