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WEB2 days ago · The soft media treatment. I blogged yesterday on how Labour’s Associate Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, Damien O’Connor, retweeted a tweet that Hamas had every right to do what they did on October 7th which is the day they murdered, raped, tortured and kidnapped over 1,000 Israeli civilians. The media treatment of this has been incredibly light.
A bipartisan approach to The Parliament Bill | Kiwiblog
WEB2 days ago · Parliament has established a special select committee to consider submissions on the constitutionally important Parliament Bill. It has eight MPs, being: National 2. Labour 2. Greens 1. ACT 1. NZ First 1. TPM 1. So the committee is split 4/4 between the Government and Opposition and also 4/4 between the …
While Teachers were mandated out … not so much Ministry of …
WEB1 day ago · Keeping my part brief: The Ministry of Education applied a brutal vaccine mandate to teachers (including Correspondence School staff) in late 2021. However – they decided that 41% of their own staff would not be covered by the mandate as they promised not to leave their offices. The Teachers Council followed up school staff mandated.
Guest Post: KiwiSaver – is it ‘working’? | Kiwiblog
WEB1 day ago · A guest post by Michael Littlewood: So, John Horner of the Financial Markets Authority thinks that KiwiSaver’s reaching $100 bn “…is something to celebrate; for a relatively small country like New Zealand, it represents a coming of age of KiwiSaver.” (FMA 24 September 2024 here).Others in the financial services industry praise KiwiSaver while some call for higher minimum contributions ...
Health Target 4 – Specialist appointments | Kiwiblog
WEB1 day ago · The fourth health target is for 95% of patients to wait less than four months for a first specialist assessment. From June 2015 to June 2017 almost 100% of patients got a first assessment within four months – 99.8% and 99.2%. It fell for the next six years to 69.6% and then to 61.5%. The impact of this decline is huge.
Health Target 2 – Immunisations | Kiwiblog
WEB3 days ago · The second health target is to get the two year immunisation rate back up to 95%. As you can see the rate was very close to 95% under National. It dipped slightly in the transition year to 91.9%. Then it plummeted from 2020 to 2024 to 77.9%. A huge job ahead to get it back to where it was. The immunisation rate is now so low, that we arguably ...
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WEBMar 8, 2023 · Retail crime doubled in four years February 10, 2023. Minimum Wage Increase – Employee Impact February 10, 2023. Remember how he was a reformed man! February 9, 2023. A rare article focusing on boys’ education February 9, 2023. Shortage of Workers January 25, 2023. Productivity incentives November 24, 2022.
The need for massive change in Education in New Zealand
WEBBecause more than 500 state schools are over-capacity —a massive problem that new Charter Schools will ease. And because in secondary schools, 27% of vacant teaching positions are going unfilled and a growing number of teachers leave the profession mid-career. Independent schools, however, can recruit more broadly and have more liberty to ...
Election analysis galore - Kiwiblog
WEBElection analysis galore. Now we have final results I have done the first of what will be a dozen or so posts on my Patreon analysing the results. I’ll cover at both an area level and an electorate level how each of the main eight parties did in 2023, and how it changed from 2020. One interesting aspect from my initial post is that the centre ...
Kiwiblog’s 2022 Predictions
WEBHere’s my 20 predictions for this year, which I’ll score at the end of the year. Peeni Henare will not be Minister of Defence by the end of 2022. There will be a by-election in 2022. NZ First will record at least 4% in at least once public poll. By the end of 2022 (after five years) the Government will not have achieved even 5% of its ten ...