Posts by Sacha
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Treasury is also incompetent if the best they can offer to improve NZ's economic performance is to tackle one of the few things we consistently do better than all but a handful of other nations - education.
Improving the performance of senior managers and governors across the economy (including Treasury's own) would have a bigger impact.
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Hard News: Briefing, blaming, backing down, in reply to Rob Stowell,
+1
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A fundamental issue so far that seems to have escaped commentators: regardless of its deficiencies, Treasury's advice was about what to do with extra funding, not about where to cut current spending. As Key puts it:
"In terms of education, fundamentally there that is a debate about what is the right step forward to produce the best outcome for our kids. What the general advice that we've had has been that after a long build-up of more teachers, the question is whether the next best dollar can be spent improving the quality of the 52,000 teachers and principals."
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to JacksonP,
crowd will follow, capn
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Hebe,
One of the great twirling and whirling songs
Ae
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Speaker: The Voyage: On Interpreting and…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
But what else would one expect from a Trader like Key
True but we need to take into account Joyce, English and others really in charge (including outside govt).
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Speaker: The Voyage: On Interpreting and…, in reply to Eric Crampton,
the owner sent money into the country in some prior period to pay for that current outflow
if only we had a better track record of selling things for something even approaching their future value. Telecon, anyone?
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Nora Leggs,
he stained glass that has been re-homed
gorgeously local. when was that done?
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Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to JacksonP,
could be the Brown filter :)
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Up Front: Sex with Parrots, in reply to Stephen Glaister,
ephemeral froth
bet she has lots of friends, eh