Christine Braid Massey University theconversation.com If it wins the election, the National Party has vowed to shake up how children are taught to read and write. Part of this education overhaul includes a pledge to require the teaching of “structured literacy” in all year 0-6 classrooms. For many
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Labour and the Greens, in fact, the political left globally, are addicted to two things: tax and spend. The more they tax, the more they spend. So we end up as a country like a dog chasing its tail because the tax take, no matter how much, is never enough
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Chrises squabbled about who gets how much of the pie, without articulating a vision for growing it. The Chrises went back and forth over issues which are very real to hardworking New Zealanders, without spelling out what real change would look like. That is
Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
Istvan The “wasted vote” is a concept that keeps popping up as we approach election day. I have had my own struggles with it and have come up with three conclusive thoughts: One. In my mind – even if I bring it down to the purely strategic (tactical?) level – it presents
The Prime Minister’s admission yesterday that Labour will finally ditch its disastrous target to reduce the prison population by 30 per cent is too late for Kiwis who feel unsafe in their homes, businesses and communities, National Corrections spokesperson Mark Mitchell says. “For the last six years, Labour have
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Back in 2017, when New Zealand’s economy was being described as a “rock star”, the opposition Labour Party railed against the role being played by immigration. Figures at the time showed that under National, annual net migration had grown from just 5,000 in
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Desperation is a stinky cologne, but now it’s all that Labour has got. They certainly can’t stand on their record, as they’ve achieved precious little other than a sea of red ink on the country’s balance sheet. All they’ve got is relentless negativity; the Nasty
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Stuff reports MP Rachel Boyack saying “Fundamentally, everyone has the right to live in a safe, warm and dry home”. As always the prefix “Fundamentally”, gives away that Boyack is talking nonsense. This reality, going back to 1929 when it was first noted is always used
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