Alwyn Poole www.innovativeeducation.co.nz www.alwynpoole.substack.com/ As I am preparing for the privilege of being on the education panel and 2023 NZ Economics Forum, I still shake my head at where we have got to. With regards to boys’ education, three graphs are telling. Keep in
A growth in new-found friendships must be anathema to the Government, as the level of division among friends and family caused by the Labour Government has been unparalleled. In many cases the gulf between people has not gone away. Some may purport it has and naively or arrogantly believe
You may have heard of Laurence J Peter’s Peter Principle, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to “a level of respective incompetence”. Nothing epitomises the Peter Principle more than the modern state of political parties and the Labour Party in particular. With the ascendancy of
The Blonde Is the current voting system working as it should? I would say No. I believe that voters are subjected to misleading information – ‘misinformation’, as it’s known. When MMP was introduced it was explained simply as one vote for your candidate of choice and one vote for your
In 2017 Jacinda Ardern promised to ban mining on DOC land and now it seems that this is back on the table as it has been ‘rubber stamped’ by the cabinet. Banning things is the one thing the Labour Government can claim they deliver. Currently, 0.04% of DOC land
Are you frustrated with the increasing use of te reo Maori in the mainstream news and weather? The TVNZ/RNZ merger was proposed because viewer numbers were down. One might expect that a revamp to regain viewers and advertisers would be in order. Maybe not. Early last year, the Labour
Camellia Webb-Gannon Lecturer University of Wollongong “Phil Mehrtens is the nicest guy, he genuinely is – no one ever had anything bad to say about him”, says a colleague of the New Zealand pilot taken hostage this week by members of the West Papuan Liberation Army (TPN-PB) in the
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. This week’s bonfire of policy was also a bonfire of cash. The Hipkins-led Government finally ditched the RNZ-TVNZ media merger, but only
Unlike Mike Munro, who has Chris Hipkins as the PM for the next four years with the election in the bag, Bruce Cotterill in his article asks whether he is a man of action or a man of words. Bruce describes Hipkins as a good communicator, sharp, witty and likeable.
The Business section of the Weekend Herald, Saturday February 4, contained a lot of good reading for which the paper deserves credit. High praise coming from yours truly. There was an in depth article on the airport and the problems confronting it. Fran O’Sullivan was sensibly suggesting giving Mayor
The late Sir Apirana Ngata is a man I never knew personally but from his preserved words and the reverence in which he was held as a scholar in contrasting worlds: those of Maori lore and British law, as a politician of long (nearly forty years) standing, and as a
You know it’s an election year when the Government abandons an Ardern-inspired piece of legislation. The proposed new hate speech law is now on ice because it’s divisive, too hard to complete and unpopular; with the added downside of potentially costing Labour mainstream votes if they push
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com At his first press conference after being elected unopposed as Labour’s new leader, Chris Hipkins was caught out by a journalist for being unable to explain the three articles of the Treaty of Waitangi. In this, he was following in the footsteps of his
This Government emptied the prisons, removed three strikes legislation, and ordered the Police to take a softer approach to dealing with criminals by implementing what is essentially a catch-and-release programme. The result of all that is an out-of-control crime problem that is widespread, but particularly hard-
How convenient that those supporters and believers of the Ardern / Bloomfield / Baker ideologies now have a blanket description for the ever-growing multitudes that are questioning this terrible medical experiment that we as New Zealanders and in fact the world, were subjected to. If you enjoyed this article please share
