Photo NZ HeraldPolice Minister Judith Collins has stuck by comments that parental influence has more to do with crime than poverty, saying it is "utter rubbish" to suggest crime is caused by poverty. After inviting questions after her speech, a Northland delegate asked if the Government was doing enough to address child poverty. She said the government was doing a lot to bring down rates of child poverty, but there was financial support for everyone in New Zealand who needed it. "It's not that, it's people who don't look after their children, that's the problem. "I see a poverty of ideas, a poverty of parental responsibility, a poverty of love, a poverty of caring."

Source: Otago Daily Times October 12, 2016 21:33 UTC