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eh? Do you mean like what was done with the tax 'reform'..."'let's get a patsy like don brash to make some, er, brash statements that we can ridicule and offer our (then seemingly) more moderate plan up as the palatable option?"
Possibly.
(yes, national standards is a big enough head butting competition for most govt's... but remember the the size of JK's mandate.)
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What shocked me about the paper was the flimsy nature of its "research". If I had time, I think I'd have a good chance of spotting the copy and paste direct from a coupe of lobby groups.
Ahh, but you've made the fatal mistake of thinking the current Government gives a shit about being 'correct' (to use one of your pinko liberal PC terms)... so long as they can do enough to <copier salesman mode> wash their face </copier salesman mode> and get stuff done.
The phrase 'bit between their teeth' I think most properly describes the various Ministers' current behavior.
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...so I've been looking at this topic in a professional capacity recently, and there are pro's and con's on both sides (mostly cons when summed up - many of the points above give examples).
As I think some other PA commenter noted - one might assume Tolley's either modelling herself on Thatcher vs Unions, or this lady; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Rhee to allow schools and Min Ed to be driven to a point where private schools with no unions are the best (least worst) option. I wouldn't go quite that far, but Kerr's piece advocating for just those things scares the crap out of me.
We are clearly failing too many kids, and something has to be done... (won't someone think of the children) but charters and vouchers don't seem to be the answer.
Not an easy thing to tackle, and many wrong answers.
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2010? Sound's like something an opthamologist would say.
Commiserations on the Achilles injury. I went and broke my ankle by getting the skill/speed ratio wrong whilst mountainbiking the day after Boxing day and have been similarly on my arse ever since. A great way to ruin a summer. Should be fully recovered sometime in June.
(for the MD's out there... Weber C + fracture of antero-medial tibia, with severed tibialis posterir and flexor digitorum longus tendons ftw.)
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(nb; haven't read the book... perhaps this is addressed there)
Why offer up a false choice between options/call for 'hard choices' (needed because of a tight public purse) - solely within ONE aspect of state funded social care? Why not propose a choice* between (say) more roads and better health care?
Is it all to do with prioritisation? I think it probably is... although the champagne tastes/beer budget observation does hold... we don't want to prioritise... we want it all.
greedy little buggers.
*choice may actually mean 'sliding scale'
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Clearly there was a missing element in the experiment... you should've considered the effect of music on the bees under such excitation.
Something soothing or ambient but contemporary.
Moby?
(think about it...)
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Lhaws = NZ's version of Glenn Beck
Discuss.
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@James
Hard News: No Surprises
<sings>Bring down the government - they don't, they don't speak for us</sings>
Brilliant.
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Has anyone else noticed that Key's circular argument: We can't implement Maori seats in Auckland because we'd need to do it for the rest of the country and we don't want to do it for the rest of the country ...
...like the Maori seats in Parliament? Next on the to do list...
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Heh... reminds me of the time...
Oxford (UK), old couple walking down the footpath as we walk behind, old lady drops sweet wrapper on ground.
Me (in probably the same tone as you): "I'd Have Though Your Generation Would Know Better."
Her: "Oh dear" picks up litter, looks embarrassed.
Me: smug for the rest of the evening till I start to think that if she'd been a 6 foot muscle bound youth I would've kept my mouth shut... what a coward. Littering is a worse crime than cowardice, so she won.