# Oranga Tamariki

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Louise Upston: Social Development Minister on the results of the inquiry into the Tom Phillips case, lack of information sharing

Fear from our public agencies may have contributed to failure in the Tom Phillips case.   Phillips was shot dead by police a year ago after being on the run for four years with his children.   An inquiry has found public agencies missed opportunities to find the children earlier, and criticised P…

John MacDonald: Why the Tom Phillips report doesn't surprise me

I’m not the least bit surprised by this Tom Phillips cock up. Because we are a country that has made turning a blind eye a national pastime. So, if we do that ourselves so often, why should we be surprised when the Police and Oranga Tamariki do the same thing? We’re a country where there’s been …

Kerre Woodham: The report shows us just how badly the Phillips kids were failed

It's hard to know really where to start when it comes to listing the failings of all those who damn near destroyed the lives of the Phillips children. In the first instance, they were failed by their father and by their immediate family. Then, when those relationships broke down, they were failed b…

Carrie Leonetti: Auckland University associate professor of law on the failings uncovered in the Tom Phillips report

A law expert says the Family Court's dismissed warnings before, like those raised about the Marokopa children.  An inquiry's laid bare failures by police and Oranga Tamariki before and during the four-year search for fugitive Tom Phillips and his children. Their mother repeatedly expressed fears …

The Whip for 16 September 2026

Join Wallace for New Zealand's most explosive 30 minutes of politics. He is joined by panellists Andrew Williams, Guyon Espiner and Jenna Lynch. The discuss the harrowing inquiry into police and Oranga Tamariki's handling of the Tom Phillips case, two new political polls that make the major partie…

Fifty days out, the campaign ignites

Just when you thought the two main parties were fixed on a do-little election, the National Party bursts out the triangulator and gazumps its Labour rivals with a pledge to pursue a breakup of the Foodstuffs group of Pak’nSave, New World and Four Square. Annabelle Lee-Mather, Ben Thomas and Toby Ma…

Jane Searle: Children's Commissioner on the inquest into the death of a 12 year old girl and Oranga Tamariki's handling of the situation

Calls continue for better coordination between Oranga Tamariki and Police as an inquest begins into the death of a 12-year-old girl.  The New Plymouth girl, who cannot be named, died by suspected suicide in 2017.  Two years later, Dana Bernadette Taylor was sent to prison for the physical and psy…

Kerre Woodham: If Oranga Tamariki is the children's last resort, God help them

There is a story in the media that has got me absolutely furious, and it's not Ashley Klein, the referee in the Warriors game. It's a story that's being played out in the Coroners Court of a 12-year-old girl who took her own life in 2017, and she took her own life because the very agency that shoul…

The Lost Nuance of Media Coverage (with Chris Hipkins Q&A)

On the North Shore this weekend, both Chrises gave us examples of how media is forced to summarise complicated, nuanced moments and details into a few sentences or a quick soundbite package. 00:00 - Introduction 05:46 - Chris Hipkins Q&A & Caucus Support 07:33 - Struggle finding Apprentices 09:21 …