Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: "The Ministry is interfering at Hogwarts" https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367353#post367353 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367353#post367353 It seems the 'Thorndon Working' is almost complete...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/85504762/hekia-parata-not-standing-in-next-years-election

]]> Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:49:52 +1300 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367322#post367322 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367322#post367322 fixing global capitalism

Fixing? This global "system" is fixed already (the other meaning)
But lets not condemn future generations to just polishing this turd.
User-pays is born of this organisational method that is the golden turd.

]]> Tue, 18 Oct 2016 06:44:47 +1300 James Littlewood* https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367309#post367309 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367309#post367309 You can't fix education by fixing global capitalism. The problem is user-pays education. That's fixable.

Even though the cause of it is now the mayor of Auckland.

]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:42:25 +1300 Mike O'Connell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367308#post367308 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367308#post367308 Great post Zed. Gosh, this discussion reminds me of that old chestnut from Oscar Wilde from 1892 in Lady Windemere’s Fan about the price v. value

I happened across UK blogger Paul Bernal who from an article a couple of years ago in a nod to [[https://paulbernal.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/the-price-of-everything-and-the-value-of-nothing/ |…

]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:38:29 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367302#post367302 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367302#post367302 Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:34:22 +1300 Zed Brookes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367300#post367300 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367300#post367300 When you're a hammer every problem looks like a nail. The government is run by people who come from a background in banking and running commercial businesses, and they see everything in NZ as an asset with a particular value. This currently includes education.

The terminology relating to education has…

]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:24:01 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367299#post367299 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367299#post367299 It’s pretty clear that the present Government is appointing women (Maori women moreover) in sensitive portfolios like social services and education. This is a clever way of defusing criticism from the Left and the politically correct, as it is difficult to attack them without looking sexist and racist.
I can…

]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2016 08:30:47 +1300 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367296#post367296 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367296#post367296 An apt metaphor.
I just hope it doesnt detract from the moral criminality, not just in education but in so many other aspects of our lives, the philosophy, this govt seems to worship, is inflicting on us.
It is rotten to its roots.
It needs to be stood up to…

]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:53:49 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367292#post367292 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367292#post367292 Our Giovanni Tiso offers a current example.

Critical failures of basic care, such as the cell that remained in full use at Miramar Central School for the past 13 years, are regarded as abnormalities to be “phased out”, as opposed to symptoms of systemic issues in need of urgent investigation…

]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2016 16:52:21 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367291#post367291 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-ministry-is-interfering-at-hogwarts/?p=367291#post367291 Discussion from blog post.

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