Tragic deaths of baby twins used to foment anti-welfare campaign

A few days ago the World Socialist Website published the following article on domestic violence and Maori, as brought up recently by deaths of the Kahui twins. I haven't followed this particular case, but the article makes a good argument about the issues. It says that the debate that has occurred around the deaths has avoided dealing with the deeper social causes of such domestic violence - the pervasive and intensifying immiseration' of recent years has exerted 'a deep corrosiveness on daily life' for many. It points out how the Treaty and 'ethnic empowerment' politics of the last two decades has played into this, and now the entire Maori political establishment lines up with the same essentially reactionary position on issues of violence and 'culture'.