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21st February 2023, 21:23 | #1401 |
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Could you elaborate a little.
The 1 minute search I did was talking about numbers from Term 2 last year. I would be interested in more of those stats (which they won't have). How many were covid related How many were families going on holiday after been stuck at home for 2 years. How many were kids just not going to school. |
21st February 2023, 21:54 | #1402 |
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I should add, yes I agree it is getting worse. Especially as the gap widens and families struggle.
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23rd February 2023, 19:31 | #1403 | |
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23rd February 2023, 22:30 | #1404 |
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Thanks. I probably could have done more research myself, but right on that page
"Incidence of COVID-19 in the community continued to be high through much of Term 3 2022, resulting in higher than usual levels of absences for both students and staff. Schools and kura were also impacted by higher levels of typical winter illness, causing additional absences. These are the main drivers of non-attendance in Term 3 2022. The increase in medical absences indicates that students and their parents have chosen to follow Ministry of Health advice i.e. for students to stay home if unwell." So going into the end of Term 2, NZ was having the large increase in covid cases with whatever was the latest variant at that point. The holidays helped dampen that, but the number of cases still going into Term 3 was quite high. |
28th February 2023, 10:51 | #1405 |
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Chippie seems to default to “lie” far more often than I’d like.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/cyclon...FJ2Q7EIHWCUYE/ |
30th March 2023, 16:11 | #1406 |
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Five Auckland Harbour crossing options unveiled by Transport Minister
I guess this gives us something to bicker about instead of all the more serious and pressing concerns no one is going to do anything about anyway.
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30th March 2023, 17:35 | #1407 |
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Really need a heavy rail option. Imagine going from north to south without even having to change
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26th April 2023, 13:01 | #1408 |
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Got I hate this. Lived though it in the 90s and now again.
propose harbour crossing - all plans are stupid - ends up costing 400 billion dollars, so gets canned for later - repeat every 25 years. Just shut a fucking lane on the bridge and let me cycle the 5km to work. |
26th April 2023, 15:08 | #1409 |
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So what you're saying is... cycleway?
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26th April 2023, 17:30 | #1410 |
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I'm saying don't build a second crossing - just close a lane on the bridge for cycles/mopeds only.
I'll be dead before Auckland can organise a second crossing. NZ cannot build anything big anymore. |
26th April 2023, 17:47 | #1411 |
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Dude NZ can't even build something LITTLE.
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26th April 2023, 22:25 | #1412 |
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26th April 2023, 23:22 | #1413 |
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I said “can’t”, not “couldn’t in 2011”.
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29th April 2023, 12:57 | #1414 |
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The City Rail Link is coming along
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30th April 2023, 15:13 | #1415 | |
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30th April 2023, 16:16 | #1416 |
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Yeah but you what would be truly unprecedented? Light rail.
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1st May 2023, 10:46 | #1417 |
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North shore here. Any rail would be nice thnx.
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19th May 2023, 14:15 | #1418 |
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Not especially excited by the latest budget.
Labour's gotten away with a tax raise, but there's a lot that's left unaddressed. Especially effective tax creep on the lower tax bands as inflation bites. Still plenty of necessary investment being neglected.
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19th May 2023, 16:24 | #1419 |
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Inflation is a tax...
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20th May 2023, 08:53 | #1420 | |
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20th May 2023, 14:22 | #1421 |
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It'd be nice if we could delet GST. It basically just makes shit unaffordable for poor people, rich people own businesses and claim everything as an expense, so basically don't have to pay it. Bullshit tax is bullshit. Drop GST, create wealth tax. 2m starting threshold, @1%, increase by 1% for every 10m of wealth thereafter.
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31st May 2023, 11:34 | #1422 |
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Minister of Education orders staff to bury disastrous attendance stats:
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...ouncement.html |
5th June 2023, 11:32 | #1423 | |
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5th June 2023, 14:13 | #1424 |
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It is unfortunately.
Unworkable for the current lot, so they'll leave, a new lot able and willing to operate in the new status quo will replace them. Any fallout will be obfuscated by the long term, but today we're a responsible neolib government managing the budget, minimising any burdens on wealth.
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5th June 2023, 14:23 | #1425 |
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Presumably this is Luxton's problem because Jan Tinetti, the actual Minister of Education, is busy being investigated by the Privileges Committee for misleading Parliament about the disastrous attendance stats.
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5th June 2023, 14:28 | #1426 |
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Labour and National aren't working against each other, they just fight to take turns.
They still make sure they don't go too hard on the other. Everything is working as it's supposed.
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5th June 2023, 16:02 | #1427 |
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The 20hours free was always a scam. ECE centres colluded together to force parents to sign up for a min number of days/hours when the govt initially announced this subsidy. A win/win for the owner of ECE centres.
The education system suuuucks so hard. I can teach my 8 year old more about maths in an hour or two than what he would at school in a week. |
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6th June 2023, 12:05 | #1429 |
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Yeah, it is a good money spinner.
* The ECE centers game the 20hours free and make it impossible for parents to use ONLY 20hours. They'll make up some shit like 'part time is from Mon-Thurs 08h00 - 17h00' so they can squeeze both the govt and the parents. Then, the ratios are always fucked. Subsidies don't work. |
6th June 2023, 14:19 | #1430 |
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Turns out the Minister of Transport and his wife are shareholders in Auckland Airport. Not a good look.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...KQCNBJJAKXNA4/ |
8th June 2023, 12:11 | #1431 | |
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The Education sector is falling apart at the university end too; https://www.thepress.co.nz/a/nz-news...r-universities |
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8th June 2023, 12:35 | #1432 |
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I can't talk to the Victoria one, but similar stuff is happening at Otago. They built a heap of new halls for first years, and now don't have paying customers to cover that cost. So they decide pulling back on courses and laying off staff will fix it.
Daughter has now moved back to ChCh to finish off at Canterbury. Nice to have a young person around again. |
8th June 2023, 13:02 | #1433 |
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Universities are businesses now, they exist to generate revenue. If they fail, that's business. 🤷
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Student doing a digital forensics class didn't know what powershell was or cmd.exe. Blatant plagiarism by international students. They copied screenshots of each others work but forgot that cmd prompt shows the directory of where the screenshot was taken. e.g. Jimmy submitted his report which contained a cmd screeny of c:\users\%NOTJIMMY%\Downloads\Fuckmyshitup.dll. The uni wouldn't discipline/kick him out. The teacher assistant who reported the plagiarism was silenced by his boss. Students couldn't solve missing X when doing basic risk calculations. Students didn't know how to reference. |
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8th June 2023, 13:24 | #1435 |
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Here in Adelaide, a city smaller than Auckland, there are four universities, two of them with medical schools. That's not counting non-university tertiary institutions at the polytech level.
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8th June 2023, 13:45 | #1436 |
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Neoliberalism working like a charm in NZ.
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Waikato University has paid former cabinet minister Steven Joyce nearly $1 million
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13th June 2023, 16:32 | #1439 |
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Jesus fucking christ.
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