The Blurring of State and Religion in NZ Education
The current system promotes one group’s spiritual worldview, while restricting or excluding others – a clear form of institutional bias.
The current system promotes one group’s spiritual worldview, while restricting or excluding others – a clear form of institutional bias.
And Hamas’ reward in all this? The senior Hamas leadership will be extradited from the ruins of Gaza to join their even more senior compatriots in Qatar.
Today, many of these stories remain unverified, their evidence buried in redacted reports and whispers. But as Harvey’s account reminds us, history is often shaped not only by what happens in the open but by what occurs in the shadows.
Bishop’s mullet-wearing days symbolise a genuine Kiwi identity: authentic, relatable and approachable, versus Luxon, who is often perceived as a career politician lacking that essential Kiwi connection.
She is asking for the bill to be withdrawn and rewritten or amendments put into existing legislation: the Hazardous Substance and New Organisms Act 1996.
They are planning to take you on ‘a journey’ into a society with more surveillance and more taxes. The select committee is receiving feedback on the current bill until 27 April 2025. This is an opportunity to let central government know your concerns and show the determination of the opposition.
If parents actually had to choose – if they weren’t forced to fund schools pushing values they don’t believe in – many of these secular approaches would die a quiet death in the free marketplace of ideas. They don’t work. That’s why they need to be forcibly subsidised.
So for the sake of an implement used for stirring, I fear I could become the stirred rather than the stirrer.