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NZQA Exam Questions Portray Unbalanced View of Farming

NZQA Exam Questions Portray Unbalanced View of Farming

Press Release: National Party Todd Muller NZQA needs to front up to concern that has been created by questions in their exams painting a one-sided picture of New Zealand’s farmers, National’s Agriculture spokesperson Todd Muller says. “Students who sat their NCEA level three English exam were tasked with

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Oh This Is Too Funny: Victoria Academics Are Our Crybabies of the Week

Oh This Is Too Funny: Victoria Academics Are Our Crybabies of the Week

Well boo-hoo-hoo!  Victoria University academics are our crybabies of the week as they now realise the true cost of their climate change / Green nonsense. “Academics are grumbling over Victoria University of Wellington’s five-point emissions reduction plan saying its goal will inevitably come from staff members’ pockets.” stuff.co.nz/

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Finally, a Resolution to ALL Treaty Issues

Finally, a Resolution to ALL Treaty Issues

It seems that the lefties have finally done something useful and worthwhile. The Universities and Colleges Union in the UK has declared that anyone should be allowed to ‘identify’ as black (or, presumably, Maori) regardless of the colour of their skin or background. The union, which represents 120,000 academics,

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Universities MUST Protect Free Speech or Have Funding Cut

Universities MUST Protect Free Speech or Have Funding Cut

Press Release: ACT Party Tertiary institutions will be legally required to protect academic freedom and free speech on campus or risk losing funding under a new member’s bill proposed by ACT Leader David Seymour. “There is a growing danger of taxpayer-funded universities abusing their health and safety obligations in

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LEAKED Massey E-mail Reveals New Free Speech Standard

LEAKED Massey E-mail Reveals New Free Speech Standard

Redline Information Satire The Committee of Disobedient Women has intercepted an email from Dr Emma Eejut, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Massey University to the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Jan Thomas. Dear Jan, Thank you for your courageous move.  I think 10 pages of blether** should tie any of the students game

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Massey University Could Have its Funding Cut Under ACT’s new Bill

Massey University Could Have its Funding Cut Under ACT’s new Bill

The ACT party is fast becoming the Free Speech party of New Zealand politics. David Seymour has withdrawn a Free Speech Bill in order to strength it further by making tertiary institutions’ funding dependant on them taking “ all reasonable steps to protect academic freedom and free speech”. No doubt this

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Massey University is an Orwellian JOKE

Massey University is an Orwellian JOKE

We have written previously on The BFD about Massey University’s recently announced free speech (snort!) policy and rules. Sadly, just like George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth which was actually the Ministry of Propaganda, their free speech is anything but free. Stephen Franks writes that “Massey Council has doubled

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The OBSESSIVE Focus on Israel’s Support for NZ Tertiary Institutions

The OBSESSIVE Focus on Israel’s Support for NZ Tertiary Institutions

IINZ A recent petition from Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) demanded an end to small annual university prizes funded by the Israeli Embassy. The Israeli  Ambassador funds two annual prizes, worth a total of $750 NZD, at  Victoria University of Wellington. These are the only New Zealand scholarships funded

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Where on Earth do Massey Get Their Anti-Free-Speech Ideas From?

Where on Earth do Massey Get Their Anti-Free-Speech Ideas From?

UCLA-Berkeley was the home of the modern free-speech movement. Now, it’s the home of its death. Not a natural death, either, but a murder in the first degree. Berkeley has been the site of violent riots by left-wing extremists intent on shutting down speaking events they don’t like.

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Massey University FAILS the Free Speech Test

Massey University FAILS the Free Speech Test

Press Release: ACT Party Massey creates ‘safe spaces’, protects feelings not speech “Massey University’s new free speech policy shows it is more concerned with protecting the feelings of a small number of students and creating safe spaces for them than it is with defending a central pillar of Western

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‘Massey Manifesto’ BURIES Free Speech in Paperwork

‘Massey Manifesto’ BURIES Free Speech in Paperwork

Massey University has killed free speech, and now they are burying the body under a mountain of paperwork that I call the Massey Manifesto. Massey University really, really REALLY don’t want speech to be free on their campus. Any event organiser who wants to have a speech event on

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Suppression of Free Speech Appears Motivated by MONEY

Suppression of Free Speech Appears Motivated by MONEY

In an opinion piece on Stuff by a Massey University Senior Lecturer, Dr. Steve Elers, the reader is given a very strong impression that the decision to remove the Hong Kong protest posters was financially motivated. “So, the question becomes: Are we prepared to risk our fourth largest export earner,

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