I’ve reviewed Labour’s ho-hum conference here, and while bringing infrastructure budget forward is great and half a billion on schools is great and paying educators a living wage is great too – this isn’t visionary from Labour and we shouldn’t kid ourselves that it is.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s all good stuff, but it sure as Christ ain’t transformative.
The lack of a grand vision, the glacial incremental nature of the change and very little to show in terms of achievement for 2 years in power means Labour have a year to put together something meaningful to convince the electorate they can truly deliver in a second term.
I want Labour to have a second term, but I fear they’re lack of dynamism and executive foresight to cauterise problems means they are still a 50-50 chance of being one term Government.
Can the kids take the $700 of property with them through life, like a quality education?
I think not!
Again concentrating on the wrong outcomes in NZ Government!
More money for construction less money for the actual education for more and more kids in NZ! I’m not happy with the poor materials given to kids at school, maybe the government need to dump educational neoliberalism and actually invest in young people not just the property they temporarily occupy!
Here a hint, make sure that 100% of kids coming out of school can read and write and do mathematics and have general knowledge and critical and ethical thinking places like Cuba seems to manage it on limited funds! Apparently half the people in prison are illiterate so no wonder they are in jail – what a waste of their lives that might have been different if they were more literate.
The lack of scrutiny and ethics continues on the upper end of a NZ education, when we have the recent junior doctor convicted of the gruesome murder of an innocent teenager, in between turning up for work drunk, and getting off by getting his lawyer to say his very much alive mother had died. That doctor graduated from Auckland university (NZ universities are becoming known for turning a blind eye to cheating so the $$$ keeps rolling in!) There are dire consequences for society and individuals in NZ with the NZ profit driven, no ethics approach going forward!
COL is too busy funding big business industry and woke issues, while the kids and materials and system gets less and less for the actual students themselves.
What the country has come down to, in the pursuit of private $$$, it’s started with Rogernomics and now combined with globalism and selling off our country and culture this is the results of letting overseas based socially and environmentally irresponsible business do whatever they want!
‘Blatant racism’: Cruise ship guests given ‘pantomime’ Māori pōwhiri at Port of Tauranga
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12290113
The left government and wokies are fine with us selling fake degrees and work here, so interesting to see the response to the above which probably even to the wokies is a step too far in saving money!
Starting a Deal.
400.000.000 million NZD is an interesting amount, and could well be seen as an initial input for transformational change.
The question is how the money will be spent, what type of infrastructure will be supported, and how will the infrastructure support contribute to other measures of “green change” (e.g. local employment, use of regenerative resources and materials, power supply from renewables, waste management, etc.).
One should assume that the governing NZAO executive – which includes members of a green party – would be able to assure that such sustainable parameters and criteria will guide the practical utilization of these funds.
Certainly, this would maximize the benefits of the budget allocation, and could be regarded as very useful cross-fertilization of labour’s and green’s strategies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcHcmvTt7tY
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