This surge in demand for faith-based schools is also a wake up call for the Ministry of Education to take a close look at the performance of the state schools and the state education system – all is not well.
Rushing headlong toward economic oblivion.
Don’t for a moment think that those masquerading as journalists have given up. They will still be intent on going in for the kill. My message to National is to wake up and watch out.
He survives again. The immediate challenge is over. The tensions remain. The election is just over 12 weeks away. And the man who keeps winning these internal contests still looks very much like the loser.
Troy Bowker says the tax would not take account of changing personal circumstances. “You pay this every single year regardless of your income and your personal circumstances.”
Racism is a readily available term to all who consider themselves oppressed, and using it is a ‘double whammy’: it immediately apportions guilt to the ‘other’ while giving the user a self-righteous moral high ground.
We should listen. The plan is for a very different New Zealand.
This $2.44 billion “donation” isn’t about community infrastructure is it: it’s a desperate, taxpayer-funded undertaking to buy votes. Why aren’t the media asking the Greens if they are serving New Zealanders, or just subsidising and aligning themselves with the Māori Party’s agenda?
The backstabbers are not going away. They are just waiting to see if three votes are still enough.
Our own intelligence service is telling us that violent extremism doesn’t belong exclusively to the right, or the left. Perhaps we should start listening. Because a threat that we’ve persuaded ourselves doesn’t exist is much harder to stop.
If the left (Labour, the Greens, TOP and the Māori Party) was sincere about reducing child hardship they’d stop ignoring crucial evidence.
