so lets sweep the previous rhetoric under the mat and try to ignore the inconsistencies huh? The point remains, and your explanation does nothing to dispell it, that Keys message was that small business needs some 'protection' as they take a risk on hiring...
A huge mis-match here between the stated reason for introducing the law and the way that it is being utilised by businesses. John Key has stated a number of times that this law is to help 'marginal workers access the labour market', employers will be ...
Perhaps one reason that the labour force participation rate is higher in NZ than in Australia is because more kiwis need to be out working in NZ to makes ends meet than in Aussie. Their wage rates are higher which would translate, I would pick, into fewer ...
Rex. Lester Flockton has been at the heart of the NEMP - National Education Monitoring Project for a number of years. NEMP looks at achievement levels across NZ children on an annual basis and compares it to world trends. I doubt you will find few better ...
Burt, what exactly is your point? Your post is a 'little' disjointed. However, interpreting what you read (ignoring some of it helps) You moaned that in 2007 we had a teacher shortage due to 'labours one size fits all policy', that you link to pay. You ...
Burt. We had a chronic teacher shortage in the 1990s when Bulk Funding was happening. So, based on your comments, are you also suggesting that BF of the 1990s also yielded us large classes and high failure rates, but nice warm feelings for the neo-liberals...
Burt. What has bulk funding of teachers salaries got to do with the question you have asked. How do you think BF will deliver this? BF is actually a fairly blunt and stupid way of paying teachers salaries.
Principals-Teachers are state sector workers. Whether they are 'public servants' depends on how you define the term. Certainly they can be classed as 'servants of the public' in as far as their job is about providing a core social service and they have a ...
I do think retirement savings will absolutely be on the agenda for the 2011 election. At least, as long as some of David Cunliffes recent comments are reflected in Labour Party policy. I have faith that they will be and welcome the discussion.
I asked the question, how can anyone (the Ministry, trainers, teachers and parents) expect to understand and explain National Standards, when the Minister does not and cannot herself. This video I think explains it best where the Minister is trying to ...
It seems to me that the trainers who are charged with delivering the professional development for the Standards are being placed in an invidious position. They are being told to work with an initiative many seem to lack faith in whilst, due to the hasty ...
This off the National Radio website: Ms Tolley says the action is political and the Ministry of Education has been open to changing its training for the national standards. But association president Iain Taylor disagrees, saying the association wrote to Ms...
Anne Tolleys response on the 6 pm news about Principals boycotting the governments 'training' was that the Principals need to talk to her about their concerns. Was she trying to be ironic I wondered. Problem is, her government has not been listening when ...
Listening to Georgina Te HeuHeu on the radio, it sounds like the government is very keen (even desperate perhaps) to give money to this particular outfit (for whatever reason) but is particularly mindful of a need to closely monitor and manage this group. ...
Labour this, Labour that.
Curious stuff. Like you say, nothing wrong with owning a vineyard. Makes me wonder why Key is being so furtive. To one person he says he does own a vineyard and knows about it. To the news he denies everything. He also clearly didn't like the question ...
Someone else suggested Lockie Smith will retire and be replaced by Peter Dunne. It would allow Dunne to 'go out in style'. Funny thing, I have never associated Dunne with style. Not even a hair style. A hair cut maybe.
Local councils pay a significant amount for roading maintenance & constuction. This is not from road user charges, this is from rates.
The Cheese Sandwich Budget A couple of years back John Key went on about a 'block of cheese budget'. Yesterday he released his 'cheese sandwich budget'. Thats it kiwis - a cheese sandwich for most of you. Caviar with cheese sauce if you are a high income ...
I think it was Keynes who said that markets are essentially programmed to respond to peoples propensity to consume (or something similar). Markets are sensitive to exchange value rather than use value. One paradigm places market control in the hands of ...
...or he could say that he was really lucky and that his govt stumbled and bumbled along as NZ dragged itself out of recession and that he hopes he is as lucky next time should another recession occur on his watch.
And if Farrar is Newman, John Key must be Mr Kruger. 'Damn, locked myself out of my office again. Alright, I'm going home'.
What I actually said Tame was, which is Tuhoe, and I did them like a dinner
Yes, I did make the joke, but I smiled and waved when I said it so everything is ok.
'Look Tame, a smile and a wave is not agreement that something is doable.'
I would day that if Labour was still in office the trains would be built in NZ, or a reasonable portion of them anyway. As the Labour govt rolled on they got more and more serious about rail.
Meanwhile, the government and David Bennett (chair of the Transport select committee) have just stopped a petition with 11,500 signatures from making its way through parliament. The petition calls for a daly commuter train service from Hamilton to Auckland...
Yet in its first term of govt National are seemingly committed to privatising part of ACC. rob
And here we are in Hamilton running a campaign to get a Hamilton-Auckland commuter train service off the ground and our regional council and 2 local Govt MPs are busy looking the other way at all the roads being built. Get a train service started as a form...
Was this in the lifestyle magazine section of the NZH? Only place worthy of it. This weeks 'smile and wave' column is from Audrey Young. Really, really slow news week in NZ was it?
Hi Matthew. Yeah, Labour could play the race card. How about a 'one rule for all' speech or maybe some 'Labour Kiwi - National Iwi' billboards. On, hang on, those have been done already. A guy called Brash, maybe with some help from certain speech writers....
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