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		<title>What I want for Christmas&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2017 18:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Now is the time of the year when we send in  requests to that mysterious red-garbed being at the north pole for 'goodies' of one sort or another. This is my belated wish-list of gifts. But not gifts for myself. These are gifts for the whole of New Zealand...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Observations on the 2017 Election campaign thus far&#8230; (tahi)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2017 21:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So many little occurrences and huge events have transpired over the last couple of months, to brand this as one of the most intriguing (and tumultuous) of election campaigns in my life. Only the 1984  and the 2014 General Elections rank as memorable. In all three, there were two threads weaving through the campaigns;
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		<title>Andrew Little&#8217;s &#8220;dangerous&#8221; speech &#8211; a cunning plan for the Middle and the Left</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2016 20:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Speaking to a fully packed downtown conference centre in Wellington, on a cold, gloomy rainy afternoon, Labour-leader, Andrew Little launched into a fiery attack on the current National Government focusing  on it's inarguably lack-lustre track record for the past eight years.]]></description>
		
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		<title>So Who are the Real Greedies?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 20:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is amazing how many blame the victims of neo-liberal ideology, rather than looking at the causes of why things happen.  Are some people really so simple-minded that they can't see beyond their immediate prejudices...?
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		<title>Setting it straight on user-pays in tertiary education &#8211; one letter at a time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2016 19:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Labour's promise of a return to (limited) free tertiary education appears to be unsettling some, for whom the last thirty years has been dominated by the implementation and bedding-in of user-pays (often gradually, so as not to spook the punters) ; reduced-tax; and minimalist-government ideology;
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		<title>The Mendacities of Mr Key # 16: No one deserves a free tertiary education (except my mates and me)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2016 05:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prior to 1992, tertiary education at Universities was mostly free, with minimal course fees. On top of which, a student allowance plus part-time paid employment, was usually sufficient for students to graduate with minimal debt hanging over them.
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