Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Jacqui is right, the university's response is interesting to say the least. Lots of students will have got back big red zeros on essays for doing something similar.
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No? Let's put Harawira's stupidity all on him, and leave it there.
I don't think the two cock-ups are related, but like Just Thinking I think Hide will be grateful he's slipped one down the list of '5 most stupid things an MP did this week'.
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Seeing as it's Friday - here's the football chant sung by the Liverpool crowd in 1965:
I wish that was part of our sport viewing culture. I'd pay a hundred dollars to watch tiddly-winks if it was amongst 50,000 people who sang.
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Regarding Monteith's and NZ bands, I remember back in '93 when the 3Ds were recording The Venus Trail at Dominic Stones' big flat (an old, ex-Masonic temple) in downtown Dunedin and they stocked up on so much Monteith's there was literally none available in the central city bottle stores.
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When the album was released, Mac's were given a special thank you in the credits and on the promo tour they made sure to do a gig in Nelson.
I think you've crossed over your beers there Grant.
Actually, if you listen to 'River vs Sea' through headphones (and listen carefully), you can hear Blair's neighbour idling his engine.
My girlfriend released a CD last year and if you know where to listen you can hear a toilet flushing as a flatmate did what needed to be done. All good.
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1990 and 91 I paid 10% fees. So yes, they were means-tested but you pretty much had to be living in a shoebox in middle of t' road to qualify.
Not means tested. Just in 1990 and 91 still charging the fee that Labour set. National fobbed them off on the universities after a couple of years, so from 1993 you had the protests on campus at fee setting meetings as they ramped down the funding and screwed both the institutions and students.
Yup, fees were first, and means tested. I seem to recall that means (of the parents) testing was also brought in for allowances around then too. Goff was the Minister responsible, IIRC. That opened the door. Are you sure about 1993? I remember 1992 as the first year of loans.
Sorry yes 1992. Same year that means testing for allowances was brought in. All three changes were the result of their 1991 tertiary review.
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If it's 7 million I presume that means 7 million times a person will view a programme on MTS. So if a person tuned in 10 different times they count as 10.
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Nice David. The banjo gets a bad name from its association with 'rural trash' and inbreeding stereotypes, but it can be a lovely instrument. The Eastern, a Lyttleton based pair play a good banjo, but they're a bit 'more rock' than David's EP.
I vote Russell sends you more beer and we get a whole album out of you. At those song lengths, only about 20 more tracks required!
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The idea that '89 was great for Europe, not so great for NZ, resonates for me. But student loans and other barbarities aside, it is still a time I remember fondly.
Student loans was 1993. Labour's fees were 1989. From a period where fees will still low enough that it was a prospect for you to pay them without a couple of decades of debt.
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Because they exist secular organisations like governments do not do as much they should. Social welfare should receive the largest cut of tax payer funding along with education and medical facilities. We should be caring for each other much much more that we do. It shouldnt be left to volunteer's, social work should be a respected career with good remuneration for anyone who wants to do it. Social work professionals, teachers and doctors would be at the top of our society not lawyers accountants and fucking politicians and business fuck heads.
We should have stopped wars by now and be a good long way towards solving poverty.That's all good. But until you've finished fixing those things, how about we don't take a whole heap of money away from the organisations that are doing the work at the coal face.
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Colin Espiner reprinted the entire text of Harawira's media release it was so crazy (and no where near the normal standard you'd expect of an MP's media releases).
Now he's had email exchanges released to the media, in which he attacks "white man's bullshit".
He's digging himself a deep one.