Dr Bex

Canberra Times article advocating for child care reform

Excellent article by @jennaprice.bsky.social in the @canberratimes.bsky.social giving a real solution to the #ChildCare crisis. 12 months paid parental leave + get rid of the profiteers

Please help if you can. Beckie is always supportive of others and needs a hand at the moment.

Luxon: I would have sacked Andrew Bayly anyway MP Andrew Bayly told Newstalk ZB on Thursday he would not have offered his resignation if he knew at the time what he knows now.

God this guy is full of shit.
He did nothing about the MP with 25 houses, the idiot in New Plymouth with a donor rort and the Uffindel allegations which were proved true.

The lying starts AT THE TOP
#nzpol

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Yeah that's a solid "nah" from me too. Fund schools better. Fund more teacher aides. Give EVERY kid an education plan which supports them to learn and thrive! This is an excuse to keep underfunding the public education system by segregating autistic kids and it sucks.

Government announces $1.3 billion crackdown on drink drivers The government aims to test just over 3.3 million drivers a year in its plan to increase roadside tests for drink and drug-impaired drivers.

A tale in three links:

1) Govt promises police $72 million in incentive payments for meeting new road safety (including breath testing) targets.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Why are random citizens consistently, and continuously, turning up major scandals by the government that NZ media are both *incapable of finding* AND refuse to report on even when they learn about it via citizen journalism???

Also has the NZ media even reported on the OIA by NZATE (I think it was) that returned evidence that David Seymour logged in to a Google Doc of the English curriculum rewrite and started making his own edits to it, completely outside the chain of responsibility and Ministry procedures?

If Erica Stanford has any sense of self preservation, she would throw this smug self-serving fail-upwards Pakeha statue guy under the bus. He has potentially wrecked her political career.

Struck off doctor has convictions upheld A struck-off doctor turned scrap-metal dealer has had convictions for receiving stolen vehicles upheld after a six-year legal battle.

For those tracking the efforts to steal Kelston and give it to a dodgy trust, note who appears to involved in setting up the legal structures around Bangerz: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/struck-of...

Good LORD

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.

Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

''This isn’t education reform. This is ideological warfare against mātauranga Māori, dressed up in the language of “knowledge-rich” curriculum and “science of learning.”'' #NZpol

Govt to restrict bottom trawling during orange roughy spawn Allowable catch in the troubled East and South Chatham Rise fishery has been slashed by 88 percent.

If you ever wondered how amazingly short sighted the NZ fishing industry is, get this: as orange roughy numbers collapsed, fishing companies targeted spawning events to catch their quota. They deliberately disrupted the production of the next generation of fish. newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/30/g...

Everything this coalition have done has been an ideological waste of money;
School lunches
Curriculum changes
Cancelled ferries
Hospital and healthcare projects cut

BUT MORE ROADS

They are just the worst government ever

This government enshittifies everything #nzpol #nzed #supportTeachers

'Ironically, the 2023 curriculum was just what we needed. The 2024 version was almost as good. This 2025 curriculum seems to have been written by an offshore consultant who knows little about the context of Aotearoa New Zealand.'

The complete elimination of the Understand strand (the "big ideas") also means there is no clear sense of how all this content fits together, which, I guess, is convenient if you don't want your overarching narrative (basically celebration of Western Civilization) to be explicit.

The Te Tiriti content (which isn't introduced until Year 4) implies the English text was signed in Feb 1840, that the Māori text is a "translation", and that Te Tiriti was primarily a response to the Musket Wars. This is all nonsense.

The NZ Govt spent $183bn into the economy in the year ending June 2025 and took back about $170bn in taxes, charges and dividends etc. This left the private sector $13bn better off. If more people understood this basic reality, we could have sensible Govt spending discussions.

the guy leading this is in 'player development' and it seems like they created an 'athlete management' company(?) and website in 2024 to launch alongside this attempt?? Like super grifty PR stuff and STILL completely full of filler text a year later. Something is OFF about this entire thing.

Many moons ago, for 4th form social studies, I learnt about the Japanese Samurai from a Mr Whitehead. This so-called "new" curriculum is literally taking us back to 1989 with flattened out histories and stale stereotypes from half a world away 👇🏼

Did a Roman statue avatar write this

"Takes politics out of history" because no politics ever happened in history, can they even hear themselves

NZ Agribusiness disrupts all efforts to cut climate pollution, meaning more disruption for food production from extreme weather in the future. NZ Fishing Companies target spawning events to catch quota, which means fewer fish in the future. These industries need public oversight not self-regulation.

Sports player factory *and* "vocational training" aka forklift driving. Yes, this is literally what their 2024 application said 😳

Even for MacCulloch, this is wild stuff.

Good, because it is just an appalling mockery of a curriculum and how kids learn

'Just absolutely ridiculous' - new school curriculum unpopular with principals The draft curriculum documents are old fashioned, sideline Māori knowledge, and appear to be written by foreign contractors, say critics.

NZ educators are not having it.