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Too much public money has been going into management instead of the frontline and there have been several alarmin examples in recent years of inept governance.
Imagine the invented machine in this guy’s pocket is neoliberal economics (because economics IS , after all, a human invention).
No government is perfect and this one certainly has a central flaw which it needs to address if we want to have a society where every child gets a fair chance at being the best that they can be.
As we slouch towards the election I note that NZ First are trying to distance themselves from Labour with Winston Peters reminding us that Labour governs at his party’s pleasure.
Not “writer’s block” so much as “writer’s inadequacy” – feeling torn between using ‘revolution’ or ‘evolution’ to describe the events on my news feeds over the last few days.
Good to see Rehette Stoltz has changed her mind and will support councillors Tony Robinson, Meredith Akuhata-Brown & Josh Wharehinga in facilitating community and iwi input on how the Endeavour models could be displayed publicly.
I live in an area of Auckland where, if you travel by car in peak times, you will sit in a traffic jam on a road feeding on to the motorway for 20 to 30 minutes .
I think the jury is still out on whether the civil unrest in the US will help or hinder Trump’s re-election.
Economic activity continues to increase. But indicators are still pretty volatile, as we grope towards a new normal.
Nostalgia – sentimentality about the past – is a trap for those of us who now have a longer past than an expected future.