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12 June 2007
VIDEO: John responds to visitor comments and questions

12 June 2007. National Party leader John Key responds to comments and questions from visitors to this video blog and the National Party's YouTube channel. First up, a response to YouTuber Bob, who posted a video response about split incomes and taxation to one of John's journal entries. Next, a response to comments on National's campaign to get tough on crime from video blog visitors Bronwyn and Kevin. Finally, John talks candidly to YouTuber Ben and johnkey.co.nz commenter Grant about why he has been using this medium to communicate - and who he hopes to reach.

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#1 - wendie gillespie 2007-06-14 22:47 - (Reply)

prisons are obviously a nessesary commodity, but its rather prehistoric to be wanting to build more crime upskill facilitys. maybe if the reabilitation programs switched on the light at the end of the tunnel! for more than a few, and there wasn't a continuous cycle of re-offending we wouldn't need to keep building prisons. Incarceration doesn't just punish the offender, the family and to an extent community also become part of the cycle. But I'm all for throwing the key away on child molesters, about time our children were protected from these predators I suggest adding 10 years to current sentences at least then our children can grow up knowing they are as important as petty desperate criminals who do more jail for pinching a couple of hundred dollars. Is it because the system that makes and enforces the law has more than the odd offender.

#2 - Andrew Atkin 2007-06-15 10:22 - (Reply)

If you threw away the key on child molesters, you would probably bankrupt the country. According to an American study I read (somewhere?) about 1 in 4 girls have been sexually abused by a father, relative or close friend. Some have suggested the statistics in New Zealand and other countries are similiar. Compare that to so-called "stranger danger". Abuse by stangers is so rare that it hits the news like a nuke when it does ultimately happen. Apparently, the Teressa Cormack case was the last abduction of a child (by a stranger) to happen in NZ, and that was back in the mid-1980's. It's almost like we obsess with false demons to avoid seeing our own!

#3 - Alan McKoy 2007-06-15 12:42 - (Reply)

*Thank you John* for supplying this for of communication. To me it is one of the most effective forms I have seen as it allows us to see who you really are. I would like you to coment sometime on teh social issues that the Labour Govt has put through and what you woudl change if any? Thanks again

#4 - martin 2007-06-15 20:01 - (Reply)

Wow we have a governement that cannot work out that the higher the interest rate the more investors seek it out and get the kiwi up. Apart from that is no understanding that less supply of developed properties leads to higher prices - does one need any financial education to get into government these days ?????

#5 - Anthony Cox 2007-06-16 10:33 - (Reply)

I would be interested in your view on a tax break for working couples who employ child carers. We have a current environment of low unemployment and skills shortages. I believe we need to be more creative in encouraging people with skills to join the workforce, whether full time or part time. At present where child care is predominantly paid for out of tax paid earnings, for many it is not economically beneficial to work. If child care costs were regarded as a cost of earning revenue and therefore tax deductible, it may well make it viable. It also provides potential for additional jobs for child care professionals. Your thoughts?

#6 - PaulL 2007-06-16 14:08 - (Reply)

John, firstly on the video blogging. Great idea - it doesn't really matter who it appeals to as long as people look at it. I'd like a transcript as well (I don't always visit at times when I have sound), but can see why it might be cleaner to get people to watch the video - it is more personal that way. On prisons, agree on working harder on numeracy, literacy, life skills. But to really break the cycle of crime I think you need to be able to get a job. Who will employ a convicted criminal, let alone in a good job. This to me is central to breaking the cycle. Our current employment law makes it very hard to take a risk on someone who is less than ideal - if they don't work out it could be very expensive. Also, at present crime arguably pays better than working - the risk of getting caught and punished is relatively low, the proceeds relatively high. Shifting that calculation would make a difference, particularly for those just entering their criminal career. Once you are already a repeat criminal you are less likely to reevaluate your risk/reward tradeoff. This means revisiting our juvenile justice system. Family group conferences work well for middle class kids who are going off the rails, they are a slap with a wet bus ticket to a kid whose family don't care - the whole point of an FGC is that the family are providing part of the sanction. Perhaps a limit on FGC before we go to alternative forms of intervention, or perhaps some other community involvement in the FGC beyond family?

#7 - Professor Gary Gorman 2007-06-16 15:38 - (Reply)

In general the National Party is making excellent use of modern media, and John Key is a most convincing speaker when dealing with economic issues, trade, interest rates, etc. But underlying all of this is a range of social issues on which Labour tends to 'talk the talk' more convincingly (but thet certainly don't 'walk the walk' on these issues). It would be good to see John tacking some of these issues with the same clarity and directness that he brings to economic issues - e.g. immigration and the excellent contribution immigrants make to NZ's economic and social development, incipient racism is large segments of NZ society, higher education 'reforms' that are turning universities into nothing more than corporations - there's plenty more to be dealt with.

#8 - Ron Hopkinson 2007-06-16 16:00 - (Reply)

After awaiting without response to four emails asking for National 's answer to the "false prophets" on climate change I hope that an answer may come through this media. Whilst the world's people should and must clean up their act generally there is no way they are the cause of "climate change". Nature changes her climate when and if she wants to. Ample evidence to this is readily available to anyone withour blinkers who care to look. WHEN WILL JOHN KEY front up and admit this or is he so anxious to please the greenees that he will join them OR IS THE NATIONAL PARTY hoping to get on the bandwagon and make money from carbon trading to the detriment to the ordinary Kiwi. I am sick of waiting for an answer - why does John Key refuse to answer emails about this ???

#9 - michael bostock 2007-06-16 17:49 - (Reply)

suggest you check out(the late) Augie AUER'S article in N.Z. Centre for Political Debate Forum of Feb 18th 07

#10 - Andrew 2007-06-17 14:21 - (Reply)

In a similar vein, what are your thoughts on inconsistency in current policy whereby government departments refuse to assist families because of the income of a parent or partner (understandable) but THEN IRD treats that parent or partner has being single with and without any responsibilities so that they can get a greater take. Surely, if a person is expected be responsible for a partner and children (up into their early 20s for some funding) then this should be included consistently in the tax calculations. Current policy sounds like government trying to have their cake and eat it too. Family support also seems like a cruel joke in that its definition of "family" is limited, a little archaic, and doesn't necessarily represent what a family may truely be in modern NZ.

#11 - JJKBoulton 2007-06-17 17:25 - (Reply)

Dear Mr Key, I’m responding to the comment “too soft on crime” and “bullying”. I’d like to make the throwaway comment that the biggest criminals and bullies I meet on my way to work are the police. Is it really necessary to have the police sitting at the bottom of hill a few metres away from an open speed zone? Perhaps I’m sceptical but they seem to be more part of Cullen’s revenue gathering machine than demonstrating any concern for the public’s safety. Yours sincerely, JJK Boulton

#12 - Nathan McCluskey 2007-06-18 10:18 - (Reply)

So that's where the police are. Two weeks ago my house was attacked and I reported it the night it happened. I was told someone would be around to take a formal statement. I'm still waiting. I think public safety from crime has been sacrificed on the altar of road safety (I don't think it's all revenue gathering, but some is), and this occurred as a result of the amalgamation of the Police and the Traffic Authority. Now, the Police seem to be more concerned with what pays rather than what costs (be it financial or social). Josh needs to keep his racing for the track, though, where it can be appreciated.

#13 - martin 2007-06-19 00:10 - (Reply)

I think police enjoy work that is undemanding. A few months ago my neighbour's cat disapeared and believe it or not a policeman came to my door asking if I had seen anything suspicious. He did not say what but later my other neighbour told me that someone was poisoning cats in the area. This may be terrible but should police not be hunting more serious offenders? We certainly have a lame government!

#14 - kerry heron 2007-06-20 20:07 - (Reply)

hello i am a family man with three children and to shift work earning close to 50.000 a year we get about 366 a fortnight in family asistance which is really a subsidy on wages if you were the goverment how will you address this as we are finding it real hard to make ends meet we have a mortgage and we find that rates going up by 14 percent when wages get about 3 percent increase along with other rises we are losing our spending power


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