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Non-satirical Image of the Day

Non-satirical Image of the Day

Here is page 38 from the new New Zealand teachers’ resource for child indoctrination into the religion of man-made climate change. With the banning of (Christian) religious education in schools, the CoL obviously felt the need for a replacement religion honouring Gaia. CLIMATE MYTH VS.WHAT THE SCIENCE SAYS“

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The New Cultural Cringe of Australia’s Elite

The New Cultural Cringe of Australia’s Elite

Did New Zealand also have a “cultural cringe”? For BFD readers perhaps unfamiliar with the term, the “cultural cringe” was the wide-spread belief (at least among the elites) that Australian culture was inherently inferior, to British culture especially. Literature, music, painting – it was all supposedly better if it came

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EDUCATION: Politikiwi Election Promises Tracker

EDUCATION: Politikiwi Election Promises Tracker

Over on the website Politikiwi they are tracking the government’s election promises. The website was launched eight months ago and its existence was announced on Reddit. It began as a personal project for 19-year-old software engineer Robert Calvert’s portfolio. Introducing Politikiwi – A polling aggregation and politician

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Pronouns etc

Pronouns etc

Redline The Council of Disobedient Women John Fenaughty is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland. In a recent column Fenaughty suggested that school teachers should use students’ “correct names and pronouns (e.g., he, him, they, them, she, her, etc.

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State Sanctioned Grooming in the Classroom

State Sanctioned Grooming in the Classroom

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World describes a future “World State” where children are inculcated with lessons on sex and class consciousness, where “erotic play between children” is a core component of their education. Huxley intended his work as satire, but in the Clown World of 2019, it’s becoming

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Australia Reaps the Outcomes of Modern Educayshun

Australia Reaps the Outcomes of Modern Educayshun

Australia once led the world in education standards. Then we had the Long March through the institutions. Australian education became “progressive” and “inclusive”. The “latest pegagogies” and “21st century learning styles” were embraced by education bureaucrats and teachers’ unions alike. And the results are in. Australian education rankings have steadily

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Labour’s Infrastructure Promises: Smart Politics or More Hot Air?

Labour’s Infrastructure Promises: Smart Politics or More Hot Air?

Labour announced that it will spend $400 million on schools; they will fast track some of its infrastructure projects and they will borrow to do it, thus loosening the Budget Responsibility Rules that they have adhered to so tightly up until now. In other words, the 2020 election campaign has

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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