Alwyn Poole Information Opinion Tracey Martin became a member of parliament on the coattails of Winston Peters. When Peters and NZ First did not get over the 5% line in 2020 Martin suddenly announced that the party’s values did not match hers and promptly left a ship she helped
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Auckland University has announced via a newspaper full page advertorial, a new degree course, specifically a Bachelor of Communications. I don’t believe in my long life of 10 hours daily reading, I’ve ever read such abominable guff. Reading through the advert’s verbiage
Education Minister Chris Hipkins is mythmaking about the impact of school closures on learning, no doubt to downplay the impact of his Government’s failures over Covid, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Yesterday in Parliament Mr Hipkins asserted that results for students were as good or slightly better
Alwyn Poole The Ministry of Education in NZ have as their motto that: “We shape an education system that delivers equitable and excellent outcomes.” The data tells a very different story. Our system is stratified in terms of socio-economics (decile), ethnicity, gender, schools types (faith-based vs value-free)
Ethan Yang aier.org Ethan Yang is an Adjunct Research Fellow at AIER as well as the host of the AIER Authors Corner Podcast. He holds a BA in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations with minors in legal studies and formal organizations from Trinity College in Hartford
Alwyn Poole The default mode of children and young people is to look to the grown ups in the room for inspiration, comfort and guidance. As Carl Jung said: “Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Dear Editor, I thought I would forward you the school email we received prior to lockdown. My child in year 12 said teachers were talking about subjects being loaded to online learning on Monday, much to his surprise. He thinks they were being warned of the lockdown. It seems the
Would you like a Woke scholarship so that you can study “people with uteruses”? PhD Scholarship in Women’s and Reproductive Health in Aotearoa Te Punaha Matatini Scholarships Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD scholarship to explore reproductive health through a co-production process. “Most New Zealanders want
As kids and parents face weeks away from school, the Government remains vague on the reality of education under lockdown, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Education Minister Chris Hipkins admitted to a Select Committee this morning that the Government doesn’t have a clear idea of how many
Family First Bob McCoskrie National Director The latest Government advice regarding booking COVID-19 vaccinations for children is a real concern. It explicitly says: “as a 12 to 15-year-old, your parent or guardian’s permission is not required if your health care provider is confident you are deemed
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s decision today around Alert Levels will come down to how prepared it’s been. It should be open and transparent about the numbers traced and tested, and what numbers it needed to make a decision. People want a Government that is accountable to
A nurse rose as they entered and came to attention before the Director. “What’s the lesson this afternoon?” he asked. “We had Elementary Sex for the first forty minutes,” she answered. “But now it’s switched over to Elementary Class Consciousness.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” Every day, it
As I’ve written several times before, Australia seems to be simultaneously cursed and blessed with two Scott Morrisons. On the blessing side, there’s Scott Morrison the international statesman, resolutely standing up to China’s bullying. But the curse is his evil twin, the Scotty from Marketing of domestic
Christopher Ruthe I was convenor of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for 13 years, (20 of my decisions are in the NZ law reports). I also sat on the Weathertight Homes Tribunal. I am a polymath with a strong interest in the philosophical underpinnings of society – a bit of a
