We're in our 60s so we just wasted 2 hours trying to:

1. Renew my expired WWVP online (nothing has changed) ⛔
Name on birth certificate is slightly different from usage name PLUS married PLUS no drivers licence PLUS no passport

2. Apply for husband's WWVP online ⛔
No ImmiCard as he came here with parents as a child on their id document PLUS no passport

Ugh! Off to Access Canberra to get it sorted (hopefully).

*WWVP couldn't help - says it's an ACT Digital problem.

**Access Canberra help-line hung up on me as help-line not available.

***Can't update our ACT digital id verification levels either.

****Also can't download the forms to fill in beforehand anymore - you have to line up and ask for it at the counter and THEN fill them in with all the required info!

#CYF #WWVP #AccessCanberra #ACT #Bureaucracy #Frustrated

Anyone who thinks colonization is something that happened to Māori in the distant past needs to watch this video:
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/06/11/629363/nzs-own-taken-generation

In it, #OrangaTamariki (formerly #CYF) make repeated attempts to take a baby from a young Māori mother while she is still in hospital after giving birth, bulldozing objections from whānau, the widwife, and kaumātua, and in violation of a care plan agreed between the whānau and OT before the birth. 70% of babies "uplifted" by OT are Māori or Pasifica.