New school lunches waste appears to exceed 70% as David Seymour’s incompetence and PR reliance rises to the fore

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Date published: 12:31 pm, February 24th, 2025 - 10 comments
Categories: act, david seymour, education, erica stanford, national/act government, schools
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The Associate Education Minister has defended the new school lunch program even as the government says it is not collecting any official feedback. Meanwhile no word from National’s Education Minister Erica Stanford.

Daily review 24/02/2025

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Repaired RSS feed highlights minister’s failing portfolios

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Date published: 4:03 pm, February 24th, 2025 - 1 comment

Last week, I pointed out that Internal Affairs under Act Minister Brooke van Velden, had managed to lose RSS communications from the Beehive to the world. It’d been offline for about three weeks at that point. That was just sloppy and incompetent for the DIA who amongst other things are responsible for overseeing government technology services.

Come Rich Foreigners – New Zealand Is For Sale

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Date published: 1:08 pm, February 24th, 2025 - No comments

Long signaled, all right wing parties are opening the doors for wealthy foreigners to easily acquire our significant assets and lands.

Bayley goneburger

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Date published: 12:01 pm, February 24th, 2025 - 23 comments

In breaking news Andrew Bayley has resigned as a minister after entering into an animated discussion with a staff member and “placing a hand on their upper arm”.

Seymour is wrecking the school lunch program

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Date published: 9:00 am, February 24th, 2025 - 25 comments

David Seymour’s handling of changes to free school lunches has been an unmitigated disaster. Is the plan to make the scheme that bad it can then be cancelled?

Open mike 24/02/2025

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When will Luxon be rolled?

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Date published: 10:32 am, February 23rd, 2025 - 32 comments

Christopher Luxon’s time as Prime Minister appear to be numbered.

Open mike 23/02/2025

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Good as gold

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Date published: 3:44 pm, February 22nd, 2025 - 18 comments

A fascinating expose from Michael Hudson on the causes and implications of the recent rise in the price of gold. When Nixon took the US dollar off the standard in 1971 you could get an ounce for $35. Not now; Hudson explains why.

Open mike 22/02/2025

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Daily review 21/02/2025

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Open mike 21/02/2025

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Daily review 20/02/2025

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A Commercial Peace Agreement? 

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Date published: 10:54 am, February 20th, 2025 - 68 comments

Trump’s opening bid for peace towards Ukraine was that the United States would gain access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals.

Open mike 20/02/2025

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About Karen Chhour’s youth offending claims

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Date published: 11:53 am, February 19th, 2025 - 11 comments

Karen Chhor has made two recent claims, that youth crime is at an all time high, and that serious and persistent offending has increased dramatically to justify her boot camps policy. Neither claim appears to be true.

Open mike 19/02/2025

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Let me nitpick on the government RSS feeds

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Date published: 1:52 pm, February 18th, 2025 - 10 comments

Earlier today I sent a missive off to point out a little flaw in a new and updated Beehive page. Like all things from this current government, it was long on flashiness and extremely light on the functional details. It also doesn’t appear to have been picked up that for 3 weeks that the government’s messaging was self-limited. Pretty typical of this sloppy and incompetent government.

Open mike 18/02/2025

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Everyone must go

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Date published: 11:47 am, February 17th, 2025 - 28 comments

Chris from Marketing’s latest gimic to lead us to economic nirvana is to use money that is meant to be used for environmental enhancement to run a campaign in Australia with a slogan that is awkward and negative.

Open mike 17/02/2025

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Happy Pride weekend everyone – except to you Brian Tamaki

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Date published: 9:36 am, February 16th, 2025 - 40 comments

Yesterday Destiny Church followers terrorised some children in Te Atatu library watching a children’s science show hosted by drag artist Hugo Grrrl and then disrupted Auckland’s Pride parade in a misconceived attempt to prove their manliness.

Open mike 16/02/2025

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Open mike 14/02/2025

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