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"...the Charter School model is just totally, fundamentally flawed. Labour will repeal the Charter School model, we'll deal with any schools that have been established in the meantime on a case-by-case basis ..."
#ChrisHipkins, NZ Labour leader, 2025
This is the kind of bottom line we need to hear more of from Labour. "Charter Schools" can be converted to Special Character schools, just like the last lot.
#podcasts #WaateaNews #BradburyGroup #education #CharterSchools
"It's worth following ... the brave voices of people like Breaking the Silence, who speak for former [IDF] reservists who speak out and give testimony to what they saw and what they were required to do. Whether in the detention centres or on the field ... in the war zones."
#HelenClark, 2025
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#podcasts #WaateaNews #BradburyGroup #Palestine #Gaza #BreakingTheSilence
This would allow people on benefits to have a go at creating new jobs for themselves, instead of playing musical chairs with everyone else trying to get more paid hours. The cost would be not much greater than paying the same people benefits, and would be further subsidised by not having to put WINZ staff time into managing their case.
Even in the worst case scenario where the business fails and all the workers ends up back on a benefit, they'd all gain skills and confidence from having a go.
"I just don't think there's a quick, easy solution without raising taxes, bringing more revenue into the economy, and again, people will also push back at that. When Barbara tries to introduce [taxes on] the Capital Gain or wealth or whatever ... there'll be a bit of squealing about that too. But ..."
#FranOSullivan, 2025
O’Sullivan is a Rogernome from way back, but even she seems to accept that we need a change in our political paradigm.
Hipkins is still humming the same tune he was singing a year ago, the 'no new ideas about tax policy' march;
Why the f%$k not Chippy? Both TPM and the Greens had wealth tax cards on the table in the last election, and grew their vote from 2020. Labour didn't, and haemorrhaged support.
Taxing wealth accumulation is financially sensible, ethically justified, and popular. Find a f%&king spine Labour, commit to a policy!
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