The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday – 4th February 2020

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  1. Latest Lincoln University study shows a large portion of NZ votors now say climate change is now one of the most serious issues that Government has to takle so Labour wake up and stop using more roads and trucks to move NZ and use rail, and as to lower plstics use stop using plastic carpets and plastics in tyres also please for a start.

  2. Universities fear financial hit if foreign students are caught in the coronavirus travel ban… but does not stop them renting a multimillion dollar house for their new OZ vice chancellor on their presumably eye watering pay packet above the PM’s… nor are they concerned that they failed to bother to attract domestic students anymore who are down..

    “The Education Ministry has forecast falling degree and postgraduate enrolments by domestic students until at least 2019, including a drop of nearly 3000 full-time students in 2016 and a further 5200 in 2017.”

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/295697/tertiary-institutions-face-big-enrolment-drop

    Don’t have much sympathy for all the businesses bleating who embraced neoliberalism and globalism without a Plan B for when climate change and disasters threaten each year – our universities, like Fonterra and most of our businesses here, are being screwed by a managerial neoliberal elite who are running everything in NZ putting foreign money first, because they are incapable of calculating the many risks, language & capability issues and longterm financial, social and reputational costs of that, going forward…

    • save nz
      You think along the lines of what should be or should have been done. If your comments can deal with how to manage with what we have and keep the country running, while at the same time constantly making small changes that compound to a large effect for better civil society and limitation of climate change, it would be useful.

      Are you able to look pragmatically at each concern, so that after you say what should be the case, you spell out what immediately can be done with short planning times for quick effect.? Nostalgia and hopeful visions have an important place, but also feed some practical ideas to the donkeys at the head of our society who seem determined to go any but their own way.

      • Universities should not be having market driven, market priced vice chancellors running the universities for money. The wages for university staff should be decent but not above the PM for a start.

        There should not be such a wide range of wages in tertiary education but decent wages for all but not perks for some and not for others. Aka neoliberalism thrive by management paying themselves a fortune and bonuses while they cut everyone else’s wages and conditions…

        All these neoliberal factors need to be removed from all NZ public services, from councils to universities.

        Degrees should be aimed at locals to educate them, not bizarrely turned into a focus on foreign money making scams including turning a blind eye to cheating and students who can’t even communicate in the language suddenly turning up with a quicky ‘NZ” masters degree.

        Looks bad when students can’t even speak the language the master’s is in, or the nursing students in their finals years whose English is nearly impossible to fathom and therefore a liability going forward as they pay their way into the NZ health system.

        Bought degrees from NZ are undermine everyone else who went to that university and is reducing the reputation of NZ over time. Especially when headlines are hitting about murderer doctors and incompetent engineers, now graduating from former top NZ universities and in the work force.

        Foreign students who are smart and are capable of passing degree level English, should be encouraged to study in NZ.

        They also need to remove the 3 year visa post degree because we have a housing and infrastructure crisis and the foreign students are not leaving with their NZ degrees, they instead hang around in NZ and fight deportation, until they can somehow get permanent residency (even while in jail it seems) while paying for a fake job and having kids, spouses and relatives, bought over in those 3 years.

        Government need to remove NZ education as a factor for residency points, bring back the language test for anybody to get a working visa or student visa here, not have a 3 year working visa post degree, and certainly not to encourage more students and temp residents here to have kids, bring parents over, bring a spouse over, all on the back of paying for a degree and then take years to deport them while they continue to use the health, education, family and justice services, roads, water, housing… etc all groaning under the strain.

        • What a bunch of shoulds. How about picking out a few of them and give us a rough idea of how you think they could be improved straight away, still earning the same money, but opening up for needy NZs. Or send the appropriate suggestions direct to the Minister concerned and see if you can get him or her to read it, or their PA, and tell us what they said.

          I wrote to Minister Faafoi recently for instance on the media thing. Your rants take a long time to write and are wasted on us who already know much of these things. Do you write direct to government and the agency heads?

  3. It seems pretty clear now, that the Natz election strategy is to get rid of NZ First by smearing them through the MSM and therefore the numbers work for COL and Labour to go down with them.

    Sounds like making a headline without much behind it, the mystery donor is Graham Hart not exactly a scandal https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/408785/wealthy-and-powerful-nz-first-foundation-donors-revealed compared the Natz identity/donar based MP seats (wink, wink) for foreign powers!

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/107902444/auckland-and-southland-mayors-receive-handouts-from-chinese-businessman-yikun-zhang

    https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/southland/southland-mayor-china-100k-donor

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/79029273/foreign-affairs-minister-murray-mccully-denies-link-between-party-donation-and-niue-contract?rm=m

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/election/2017/09/saudi-sheep-deal-govt-accused-of-cover-up.html

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/78892068/john-key-assures-the-public-he-is-not-linked-to-the-panama-papers-scandal

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skycity_Auckland

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/79067679/numerous-donations-by-hotel-founder-to-national-party-but-no-conflict?rm=m

    Months of MSM running fake news about NZ First ‘donations’ turn out not to be $100k to grease the way for foreign powers to access their MP seats like the Natz, but NZ’s richest man throwing down a bit of spare change…

    Hopefully Graham Hart will bother to sue them too … to send a message.

  4. Bushfire smoke in Australia will have long-term effects on citizens there. It is unfortunate that it takes a disastrous situation like this to penetrate their lungs, hearts and brains so as to get them thinking about the sort of society and politics that they have repeatedly voted in. The thing about smoke is that it goes everywhere – everyone gets true equality – of hazard.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018732478/australian-bushfire-smoke-poses-ongoing-health-risk

  8. This is a thoughtful piece from Gordon Campbell who has been looking hard at some road spending contracts, not at dog’s rears. We need to keep on track in this election year. Where did January go?
    https://www.scoop.co.nz/
    Gordon Campbell: On Dodging A Bullet Over The Transport Cost Over-runs

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