… to come unto the State’s collective child-rearing system.
Could the recently-announced screening for four-year-old Kiwi kids be just the thin end of a sinister wedge? Judging by what’s happening under the UK’s Labour administration (whose policies are often copied by Helen Clark and then declared to be uniquely New Zealand solutions), there is cause for [...]
You’ll never read the true story in the press, you won’t find the truth on TV and politicians will never admit it.
But the fact is that decent New Zealanders quietly rose up during the last 48 hours and told Helen Clark that her Government’s treatment of Mr X, the 101-year-old British widower ordered to leave [...]
English widower Mr X has $363,000 in the bank and gets an annual pension of $83,000. This makes him, in New Zealand terms, a wealthy and self-sufficient person. Mr X has been living here with his last surviving relative (his 63-year-old son who has a New Zealand passport) since 2006.
He has no property or assets [...]
So Labour has it all sorted, according to Finance Minister Michael Cullen. He told listeners on Radio New Zealand National last week that his government had put in place all the measures required to dramatically increase productivity, and now it was simply down to business to deliver.
From which parallel universe has Dr Cullen arrived?
Just how [...]
This country is still supposed to operate under the ancient rule of habeus corpus: an accused person is presumed innocent until proven guilty. But any chance that the Somali woman Asha Ali Abdille could get a fair trial in New Zealand evaporated on February 9.
That was the day the Dominion Post published a detailed history [...]
In Australia, there was much debate about the apology that its new loopy Labour rulers offered the Stolen Children – aboriginal infants taken away from their parents and fostered by white people in the 1950s.
The fact that Australian political parties needed to argue about the wording of the apology demonstrates just how little their politicians [...]
Once upon a time, there was a German computer company called Nixdorf. Roughly translated, it means No Place. An annual corporate event was the Motivational Weekend and, on one memorable occasion, it involved taking selected personnel to an icy Bavarian forest, where compulsory team-building and bonding featured “Building Your Own Log Cabin From Nothing”.
Today, Nixdorf [...]
That’s the message from the powers-that-be. If, by any chance, Patea is actually coated in asbestos dust following the fire at its old freezing works, fear not, Pateans. If the wind blows, just close your windows, say the “experts”. Everything will be OK until the results of their tests arrive next week…
Yeah, right. Tell that [...]
Boot camps for very naughty children, or a compulsory higher school leaving age? Neither will work. From National, we get the same old hard-line approach majoring on punishment and rehabilitation, and from Labour comes a sneaky scheme to increase the burden on teachers who are actually working as child-minders.
The kids who cause trouble on the [...]
The good news first: Tax cuts are on the way. Hip Hooray! But now for the bad news: Finance Minister Michael Cullen is toying with the idea of putting all your tax cuts into your personal Kiwisaver account.
But, we hear you cry – you don’t have a Kiwisaver account! That’s why he’ll also make joining [...]
