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Hon Erica Stanford Minister of Education The Government is committed to lifting school achievement in the basics and that starts with removing distractions so young people can focus on their learning, Education Minister Erica Stanford says. The 2022 PISA results released this week found that Kiwi kids ranked 5th in
Labour has developed a habit of making grandiose election promises with almost no ability to deliver on any of them. Think Kiwibuild and Light Rail to the Airport as examples. During the election Labour attacked National over their transport policies while they were sitting on a Treasury report that lambasted
Dear Editor Seeing Debbie Ngarewa-Packer of Te Pati Maori claim, across various news channels, that “We have a government that has insulted and upset at least 20 per cent of the population…” and her party has a “large mandate of Maori” to speak on their behalf against the new Government,
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John Maunder sunlive.co.nz This week over 70,000 people will attend COP 28, the 27th gathering of the Conference of the Parties dealing with climate change. By contrast, 38 years ago a small group of 100 scientists met in the small town of Villach in Austria to begin
**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? This photo is of Whitianga Waterways from a Barrier Air flight to AKL. ** We need more photos please folks, so grab your
Sunday the 3rd was interesting for several reasons. When I wrote this, the four dumbest criminals in New Zealand had just ram raided a bakery and vape stores in east Auckland. You may think there is nothing particularly unusual about that in the rubble of a welfare-sated socialist society, but
Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome
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By popular request here is the much talked about speech by new National MP James Meager. New National MP James Meager: “Members opposite do not own Maori. Members opposite do not own the poor. Members opposite do not own the workers. No party and no ideology has a right to
My questions for the media and political journalists in particular are as follows: If your incestuous relationship with the Labour Party was the correct one, in the sense that we the public should have followed all the journalists’ infantile utterances, why wasn’t Labour re-elected? If your journalists are the
