Press Release: National Party National will double the size of New Zealand’s technology sector by 2030 with a $1.29 billion plan that will aim to create at least 100,000 new high-paying, future-proofed tech jobs. “Doubling the size of the technology sector by 2030 is an ambitious goal,
The man behind a court challenge to Otago University’s medical school admissions scheme is getting support from other parents whose children missed out. The medical school’s Mirror on Society policy, introduced in 2012, means domestic students fitting into special categories get preferential entry into Otago medical school. The
In my many conversations with the Trump-deranged, one thing is immediately obvious. Their visceral reaction to Trump is entirely personal. Policies run a distant second to their emotional gut-reactions. It’s Orange Man Bad, all the way. To which I always answer, “Sure, he’s an asshole. I won’t
Demography is destiny. Seven decades of Communist Party policies have left China with a soon-to-crash tsunami of the aged and male. The Middle East and Africa’s impoverished fecundity is flooding the West with single young men on the take. In the West, the children of the Baby Boom generation
“Ignorance is Strength”, ran the motto of the socialist Party in Orwell’s 1984. Decades of left-wing domination of the education system has produced a generation so astonishingly ignorant that their know-nothingness is practically a superpower. Students today are the Supermen of Ignorance. Their ignorance is so thoroughgoing that, despite
The Prime Minister has said that we should know her Government by their deeds. So far those deeds haven’t amounted to much more than non-delivery of bumper sticker slogans. But we are implored to “keep moving”. One of their flagship policies at the last election was the fees-free programme
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If there’s one thing you can say about the Long March left, they’re persistent. And, like the Maoists their strategy takes its name and inspiration from, dab hands at sneakery and treachery. The Maoists took persistent advantage of the naivete and openness of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists to
Ruth Boyask Auckland University of Technology The anger and outrage expressed by school leaders and teacher unions towards Green Party co-leader James Shaw’s announcement of a government grant of NZ$11.7 million to the private Green School New Zealand comes at a time of financial high anxiety. Ordinarily,
When the Morrison government agreed to conduct a royal commission into the banking sector, Australia’s academics weren’t backwards in coming forward with their pious opinions about the wicked capitalists. But academics shouldn’t be so quick to throw stones – not when their ivory towers are looking more and
I was recently struck by a young graduate who told me that in all her years at school and at university, where she gained a Master’s degree, no less, she had never been introduced to the subject known to slightly older folk as History. Her revelation was in response
It would be fair to say that in the 3 months that I worked with these young people, they came to see that they could trust me. I wasn’t planning to up and leave after only a few days, and perhaps as someone old enough to be their mum,
About 24 years ago, as a former primary teacher and with a new Certificate in Teaching English Language under my belt, I began in-home after school tutoring, working with new immigrants, largely South Korean and Taiwanese high school students. A couple of years later, I got my first job in
Dear Editor On 2nd September the Taranaki Daily News devoted its whole front page to the story about the millions of dollars being allotted to the Green School. Nothing special there, you might say, as just about every newspaper in the country did the same. Neither is the fact that
Lindsay Perigo solopassion.com The root of murderous, terrorist KKK Woke-Fascist Only Black Lives Matter and PROFA is Academia. Privileged, taxpayer-funded, smug, snarky, postmodern, righteously evil Academia, such as, in New Zealand, the taxpayer-funded School of Music. The root of all evil is philosophical, especially when it’s anti-philosophical, as
