Source: brokenpromises.co.nz Promise: Careers Advice “Ensure all students have professional personalised career advice before leaving high school.” Speech from the Throne Failed to deliver. Promise: Teacher/Child Ratios “Improve group size and teacher:child ratios for infants and toddlers in early childhood services” Labour’s Education Manifesto Failed
Source: brokenpromises.co.nz Promise: Transport “Safe cycling and walking around schools to be a transport priority.” Green Party / Labour Confidence and Supply Agreement Failed to deliver: The Government will argue there is a significant road safety investment programme underway, with a range of safety upgrades to existing infrastructure, but
You have only got until 5 pm this Friday to make a submission against a race-based, public service. It will be your last chance to air your views on the Public Service Bill which hopes to “modernize” the New Zealand public service partly by adding a Treaty of Waitangi section.
Source: brokenpromises.co.nz Promise: One Billion Trees “This government is committed to a new planting programme, planting 100 million trees a year to reach a billion more trees in ten years.” Speech from the Throne Broken Promise: No matter how you cut it the billion trees over 10 years
Source: brokenpromises.co.nz Promise: Electric Vehicles “This ambitious plan to take real action on climate change will involve all New Zealanders. This government will act as a role model, showing leadership by requiring State-owned enterprises and other government organisations to pursue low-carbon options and technologies, including electric vehicles for
ACT Party Superficial Times Media took the bait hook, line and sinker, going nuts at the title of our Waitangi Day State of the Nation Address (Make Aotearoa Great Again). As the week went on, smart commentators pointed out their good-people-and-bad-people, with-us-or-against-us reaction was Trumpian. What’s at Stake This
Source: brokenpromises.co.nz Promise: Mining on Conservation Land “There will be no new mines on conservation land.” Speech from the Throne Promise still under negotiation with the coalition. Promise: Waste Minimisation “Other environment initiatives include a commitment to minimising waste to landfill and a fund to take action on
Source: brokenpromises.co.nz Promise: Housing “Housing is a top priority for this government. Action will be taken to address homelessness. State house sell offs will stop. And the State will take the lead in building affordable houses. Through its Kiwibuild programme, this government pledges to build 100,000 high
Source: brokenpromises.co.nz Promise: Gender Pay Gap “It will eliminate the gender pay gap within the core public sector and encourage the private sector to do the same.” Speech from the Throne Broken promise: Pay equity legislation has stalled. The Government blocked the National Party bills twice, and have
Source: brokenpromises.co.nz Promise: Driver Training “This government will offer all high school students free driver training and financial literacy, as part of a toolkit giving all school leavers valuable practical skills.” Speech from the Throne Broken promise: The Prime Minister has announced a scheme to help 2500 young
Source: brokenpromises.co.nz Promise: Free Doctors Visits “Free doctor visits will be extended to everyone under 14, with teen health checks for all Year 9 students.” Speech from the Throne Broken promise: A lovely sentiment that has not been delivered. The promise was made by Labour to NZ First.
Source: brokenpromises.co.nz Promise: Youth Suicide “New Zealand’s high suicide rate, especially for adolescents, is shameful. This government will increase resources for frontline health workers and will put more nurses in schools to make it easier for young people and others with mental health problems to get the
Source: brokenpromises.co.nz Promise: Police “As part of keeping our society safe, this government intends to add another 1800 new police officers over the next years and will investigate a volunteer rural constabulary programme. Community law centre funding will increase and a Criminal Cases Review Commission will be established.
Source: brokenpromises.co.nz Promise: State Services State Services Minister Chris Hipkins promised in mid-2018 that his government would “reduce the reliance on expensive consultants and contractors, saving taxpayers many millions of dollars a year”. Chris Hipkins, 2018. The total spend across all 30-plus public sectors at that time was
Federated Farmers of New Zealand The Ministry of Education has made a new Climate Change resource available to teachers on the Te Kete Ipurangi (TKI) website. This is not compulsory but is a ready-made unit of work designed to be picked up and taught by teachers. The “Climate Change: Prepare
nationalterroralert.com U.S. officials monitoring terrorist web sites have discovered a call for using forest fires as weapons against “crusader” nations, in what may explain some recent wildfires in places like southern California and Greece. A terrorist website was discovered recently that carried a posting that called for “Forest
