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Must tautoko that ^^.
Funny what you take for granted.
Thanks for yr mahi, (I assume) lprent.
Wat dv and gsays say.
There might still be an issue, it is slow to load.
New Zealand is known for its low level of debt and associated lack of infrastructure. and National exaggerates the debt level (to the point of not counting assets) to reduce investment (in anything not a road servicing business interests/trucking and those with access to second homes).
National does this as part of its keep government small to provide occasional tax cuts to those in the middle class (not being burdened by "wasteful spending" as part of protecting the well to do from a CGT and estate tax – 24/36 OECD nations have both).
In raising this issue Grant Robertson is highlighting a lesson he learnt as Minister of Finance – that both National and Labour have focused too much on low debt
A classic case is the Cook Strait connection, public transport, coastal shipping, water infrastructure, "Onslow" hydro dry years insurance, public housing, health and education buildings etc
National are moving to advocate for private sector funding in health and education buildings and roads – enabling private sector profit from lack of public sector investment.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/03/17/grant-robertson-nz-can-sustain-more-government-debt/
Cameron Bagrie:
https://twitter.com/cameronbagrie/status/1768521403392012389
A drunk uncle at a wedding impersonation, Archie Bunker with his son in law.
7min 20 seconds in, the name Winston comes up.
Not much of a lawyer then, because the Crown was negotiating with the indigenous people, who had claimed sovereignty in 1835, not subjects.
And the partnership that was created was one between the UK Crown and the residents in New Zealand, settler and Maori. One that any Crown government in that realm was expected to honour.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/watch-live-nz-first-leader-winston-peters-to-give-state-of-the-nation-address/BPCKTCK2MBAWRD5CHADECZDG4Y/
If a person of superannuant age was privileged enough to go to university, they did so at a time when this was uncommon – that indicated an origin, or future, of privilege.
How people use that privilege is up to them.
One would know that there was little education in Maori history at the time, nor the story of native education well known.
At one point it was thought Maori might die off a as a people. And it had also become uncommon for there to be any discussion of Treaty rights.
And so Maori were coming to assimilate into a settler society, just as migrants were.
It was at this time 1950's-60's that Winston Peters received his cultural upbringing. And this is how we should see the like of him – as someone who chose to join the National Party back in the early 1970's while at university
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/maori-history-avoided-schools-academics
The end of academic education for Maori, lest they remain a people of mana.
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2022/09/29/the-danger-of-an-untold-story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_schools