A rare thing : New Zealand PMs bar one pose for a photo Sun, 2 May 2021, 1:24PM
Former Prime Ministers Sir Bill English, Sir John Key, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, Helen Clark and Jim Bolger pose with current Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Photo / Supplied A rare thing : New Zealand PMs bar one pose for a photo Sun, 2 May 2021, 1:24PM
It was a rare thing on Friday evening as all New Zealand s past and present prime ministers, bar one, gathered in a room together.
Attending the 150th anniversary of the Parliamentary Press Gallery were Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, along with former prime ministers Sir John Key, Sir Bill English, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, Helen Clark and Jim Bolger.
Thursday, 1 April 2021, 4:27 pm
In what TV reporters call “a bizarre new twist” the
long-running saga of Broadcasting Minister Kris Faafoi’s
search for a business case for his new media entity has
stolen its latest plot line straight out of Noddy Goes to
Toyland.
In the first of Enid Blyton’s famous
children’s books, Noddy arrives in Toyland and decides to
build himself a house. He wants to start with the roof so as
to stay dry if it rains. But his friend and mentor, Big
Ears, tells him he will need walls to keep the roof up.
There being no shortage of framing timber in Toyland at that
Taxpayers’ Union
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Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says, “The proposed New Zealand History curriculum is bereft of economic history, raising a real concern that young Kiwis won’t learn about the achievements of the Fourth Labour Government. How are students to understand New Zealand’s path to wealth and freedom if they don’t know about the productivity-boosting impact of Sir Roger Douglas’s deregulation and tax cuts?”
“Preposterously, the proposed curriculum instead teaches the history of labour movements! Instead of teaching kids how to privatise state assets and implement a single-rate GST, the Government is telling them how to go on strike. That smacks of left-wing bias and propaganda.”
Taxpayers’ Union
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Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says, “The proposed New Zealand History curriculum is bereft of economic history, raising a real concern that young Kiwis won’t learn about the achievements of the Fourth Labour Government. How are students to understand New Zealand’s path to wealth and freedom if they don’t know about the productivity-boosting impact of Sir Roger Douglas’s deregulation and tax cuts?”
“Preposterously, the proposed curriculum instead teaches the history of labour movements! Instead of teaching kids how to privatise state assets and implement a single-rate GST, the Government is telling them how to go on strike. That smacks of left-wing bias and propaganda.”
A new political blog has appeared. But rather than involving a fresh presentation of new ideas in an attempt to engender debate this blog has three tired old has beens who are well past their use by date engage in some climate change denial and race baiting.