Virtually every brand of communist government for starters.
Given the international trends towards more right-wing governments - it seems unlikely that you will see your nirvana any time in the near future.
I agree. The question is whether it was deliberate (by the publisher) or accidental. Scobie may or may not have known - what he's been very careful to express in interviews is 'plausible deniability' not outrage.
Oh, I don't limit controls on lobbying to alcohol and nicotine - I think we need to manage lobbying in a much broader sense.
Some Kiwis have a drinking problem / habit / hobby – hoo boy. This is certainly true. It is, however, very unlikely that those people will be the ones making home brew, or home distillation of spirits. It's cheaper and easier to just trot down to your ...
Craft, yes. Commercial supply, no. Economies of scale. Just as relevant to illegal manufacture as legal.
I'm not familiar with the Wellington situation - but North Shore mayor, Andrew Williams, got a fair amount of criticism for his drunken antics, in 2010. https://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/3523169/North-Shore-Mayor-drank-two-bottles-bar-staff ...
Yes, recent research shows that the standard replacement drug 'phenylephrine' - performs no better than a placebo. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/popular-nasal-decongestant-sudafed-doesnt-actually-relieve-congestion-advisers-say/...
Evidence that the wholesale supply of meth into NZ has become industrial in scale - is the (reported) drop in street price from $700-$1K a gram in 2009 - to $200/gram today. https://archive.ph/gJbQS https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/reversing-...
Why would you believe that it wasn't the author? His comments have all been carefully crafted around not infringing UK law - he's said nothing about EU or Dutch law. There would have been two editions prepared. The original edition - as written by Scobie, ...
Perhaps you could produce a counter example of a country with equivalent political stability - over centuries - which doesn't have any form of monarchy. The problem with your proposal to discard the monarchy - I'm assuming you mean in a non-violent way - ...
Which part of French history are you referring to? The execution of Louis XVI? - which was then followed by the Terror - with widespread executions of many 'ordinary' people for not following the party line with sufficient fervour? The execution of the ...
I strongly suspect that the Palace will continue their historic policy of 'no comment'. If cornered, the 'recollections may vary' phrase might be used, after all the Sussexes have been caught out in so many .... misrepresentations ... of the truth, it ...
But misses out on Sport, to Peeni Henare.
Yes indeed - it's unfortunate for the South Auckland boys sexually assaulted by Alosio Taimo - that the same remedy isn't available for them. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/383123/auckland-school-rugby-coach-alosio-taimo-jailed-for-22-years-for-...
So your examples are: St Kents (a private school - not state integrated); and Auckland Grammar (a higher decile state school) Still waiting for the examples of the state integrated schools 'poaching' students for either academic or sporting reasons. ...
And have they made a difference under Labour? Looking at the most recent school absentee figures (released after the election) - it appears, not.
Their spend per pupil is usually significantly higher due to their other sources of funding OK. Now time to provide some evidence for your reckons. AFAICS - there is zero evidence that the cost per pupil for kids in state integrated schools is higher than...
And having sat on the board of a low decile school I became acutely aware of the disparities in funding (especially compared to the high school I went to), the white flight, the pinching of our best students and athletes by other schools – often with job ...
I can't say that I love Janet and John (they'd pretty much gone by the time I was at school). But I've seen the misery of kids in the early years classrooms, who just don't get the whole-language approach - and flounder at reading. Kids who are put into ...
I fear that phonic teaching will cause kids to revert to ability grouping in order to manage the logistics. Ability grouping is already used within the classroom (reading groups, at different reader levels). There is no other way that a teacher could ...
Gotcha. Everyone who disagrees with you is just plain wrong. Have a nice life in your bubble, 'Astrophe'
We can blame the 1%, but who are burning the other 50% of emissions? In NZ, it's the ordinary Kiwis (including many of those active on TS), who believe that it is still their unquestioned right to fly, both locally and internationally. And, while ...
This seems to be an inherently racist statement. The assertion that there is any such thing as "Maori" behaviour. Do people have to don 'blackface' to meet your standards of Maori-ness?
Kiri Allen did the most damage' I disagree with this. Everyone that I know, on all sides of the political spectrum, was highly sympathetic to Allen. And recognized that her behaviour was the result of intolerable pressure due to personal circumstances (...
If, by this you mean they can exclude students who blatantly and repeatedly break the school code of conduct, not to mention the law. Then, yes they can. And so can State schools. The 'rules' are the same for both of them with the MoE. If, you mean, that ...
I read this as: This is the National/NZF agreement. There is a comparable National/ACT agreement. All elements in both agreements are policies that all 3 parties can live with.
Imagine a 5 year old "doing reading" for an hour per day every day What do you think goes on in primary schools? It sounds as though you've not been inside one, for quite some time. 'Reading' in Year one involves using age-based and levelled readers (the ...
Aren't most "'religious' schools" part of the "state system" anyway? About two thirds of NZ schools with a religious affiliation are Catholic and so integrated into the state education system. Yes, they are state integrated special character schools (not ...
I do not think there is any evidence that the teaching of a particular religion in a school has any influence on success. I invite you to look at McAuley. Heavily non-white (Polynesian and Maori) - integrated Catholic school. Way out-performs its decile ...
Actually, the research-based evidence is that Phonics/Decodable text works for close to 100% of kids. [There are always a few with complex learning disabilities, who need a tailored solution]. Importantly, every child who learns to read using 'balanced' or...
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