Chippy chops National Standards
This was never about the educational needs and simplification of explaining grades to parents, it was always about building the infrastructural data to allow league tables.
New Zealand Politics
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The incredulous self-righteousness of Gerry Brownlee, Amy Adams, Paula Bennett and Bill English
Forget the Housing failure, the homelessness failure, the health service failure, the education failure, the prison failure, the transport failure, the environmental failure, the social issues failure and the infrastructure failure, just look at the current incredulous self-righteousness being spouted by National over the last week.
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National held back advice on 1.9m sea rise until after election while new developments built
The National Government knew what the report said but held it going out before the election because it would demand they had an actual plan for climate change rather than the meaningless lip service they currently provide.
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Are we really sad KidsCan is getting dumped? Really?
KidsCan has been lauded because it stepped in when the Government refused to do anything meaningful and that was acceptable to the majority of NZers who argue that free lunches or shoes or raincoats from the State will let parents off the hook.
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WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Māori Politics 2017 – wins and losses
2017 was an explosive year for Māori politics and the election reshaped the political landscape in a dramatic fashion wiping out Māori Party and MANA Party aspirations while leaving the Labour Party with an enormous obligation to Māori voters.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson: Focus on real jobs with security, forget ‘bludgers’ rhetoric
The Jonesy is a passionate bloke and mate of mine who wants to do what is right by our people who have been forgotten in the regions when it comes to jobs. He fired up last week and went on TV wanting to force beneficiaries into work with plenty of sticks to prod and push them into jobs.
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New Zealand media ownership: History and obfuscation
This year’s New Zealand Media Ownership report written by Merja Myllylahti and published by the Journalism, Media and Democracy research…
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Open letter to Russel Creedy from Unite over Alternative holiday theft
It is with great concern that the manipulation of rosters to deny staff alternative holidays at Restaurant Brands has been confirmed to be so widespread that it must have been company policy at a senior level.
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Yanis Varoufakis Would Tell Grant Robertson That Neoliberalism’s Rules Are For Breaking – Not Keeping.
IMAGINE THE REACTION if Finance Minister, Grant Robertson, announced a broad-ranging, government-sponsored seminar on progressive economics chaired by Yanis Varoufakis. Vilified and demonized by EU bankers and politicians for his heterodox economic ideas, Varoufakis resigned as Greece’s Finance Minister rather than impose yet another of the European Central Bank’s crushing economic diktats on his impoverished homeland.
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Don’t be grinch at Xmas
The exposure of the theft of alternative holidays – otherwise known as lieu days – by the Wendy’s corporation has opened up a pandora’s box of holiday theft allegations across this and other industries.