As someone who sat school c - I've started saying to my kids high school may only give you a leg up toward your first career.

This much I know about the changes to secondary education: While one in ten New Zealanders rely on food parcels to eat, and one in a thousand New Zealanders live rough, a huge number of young people will struggle to achieve their true potential whatever happens with NCEA.

And here I was thinking not putting one of my kiddos up a year when offered wouldn't materially matter... Well that has come round to bite me. Guinea pig cohort announced :(

NZ’s Shane Jones wearing his #Aotearoa shirt & supporting #Māori - before greed & corruption took hold - now he swills with donors & pushes through laws undermining NZer’s rights, & to sell & degrade NZ’s conservation estate, seabed, waterways & Māori lands #nzpol

Still nothing on an income front but lots of networking reminding me of all the broad branches of mahi out there, by incredibly talented, caring, and hardworking people gives me hope that there will be a place for me eventually.
#opentowork science for me or keen on PHP work for my partner

disinformation and misinformation has long and terrible fingers #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Carbene coating completely cuts corrosion on iron surfaces A 'molecular double-sided tape' protects iron from rusting with 99.6% efficiency

Corrosion remains a huge problem worldwide. Now, a team has employed an unusual agent to prevent rust - a carbene-based primer for iron surfaces.
www.chemistryworld.com/news/carbene...

Govt finalises 23 laws in scope of Treaty clause review Conservation and Crown minerals laws have been dropped from the Treaty of Waitangi clause review in favour of standalone reviews.

Wow! NZ Govt is going hard on plans to bassett* 23 laws!

*To bassett means To remove all references to the Treaty of Waitangi from a document.

Term used in late 80s when Michael Bassett was a Minister along with Roger Douglas.
#NZpol @newsroom.co.nz
newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/25/g...

sideways, this is how I felt when I was 15 in Southland first having Endometriosis surgery. Later when I was a rep for Endometriosis NZ rep I was asked (I didn't) to tone down education - because there was no where to refer anyone too.
I'm in my 40s now and it seems its only gotten worse.

#nzpol Data from Stats NZ today demonstrates how far we have fallen in the labour market. Between June 2019 and June 2023, we put on 225,000 new jobs. Since then, we have lost 31,216 jobs. A filled job is lost every 34 minutes. A thread

odd how evey UBI trial i've ever seen has demonstrated that NOT kicking people when they're down apparently magically results in a more functional society

GREEN LAB TPM policy wonks take notice pls, it's a defining antithesis of ACT NAT NZF viciousness

#nzpol

#NZpol ⬇️

(Bear in mind the change isn’t "just" so you can’t enrol on election day, but disallowing enrolling any time after advance voting starts – 2 weeks before election day.)

No help, go see Dr Micheal East. "You have 5 endometriomas twisting into one ovary" - 5 shift changes and no surgeon could help. Same story for years till I aged to buy my own insurance. 3 years to that day (stand down) I started getting help. I would be dead without it. Seems nothing has changed :(

25 years on from my first Endometriosis op where I was shown a drawing of a uterus etc scribbled over everywhere by the surgeon. So much distorion, a bowel resecution needed, I was that fucked. Public couldn't help me.

#nzpol

"Kiwis not getting raw deal on butter" reminds me of the one where banks, electricity gentailors, and supermarkets are all operating in perfectly competitive markets.

😂🤣😂🤣.

Would be funny if it wasn't serious.

😥😠😡.

#NZpol Lifting this response up, as it has relevance to some of the misplaced thinking (I’m being kind) coming from some quarters of NZ’s current coalition government –

what the

As an under employed / unemployed Science and Senior IT whānau I agree that its odd - just set up for short term not long term ideas I guess.

This sounds good e hoa

Is a National/Labour coalition next election even a possibility? Likely allowing National to keep any of this terms legislation they want and Labour to be "for the center". I mean running candidates who are already and would remain in parliament in Māori seats vacated by death etc... #nzpol

Ngāi Tahu / Kāi Tahu did do a lot of development/ownership around Frankton/Queenstown at least. But well over a decade since I caught up.
I know one of the Manawatū iwi when I was living there were having huge trouble building housing on land around Feilding because of council rural rules though :(

I did too!

I wish we could do that

Great job! I know one of our kiddo's has a compulsory one that was $100 so we did a lot of chasing and hoping after it was left on the bus. Uniforms and laptops are so much more than "can just go buy another tomorrow" items

People love to pretend that whatever sector of the economy they dislike doesn't have actual people who actually need to make a living working in it. Firing thousands and thousands of people across whole fields in a matter of months is an employment crisis, period.

Truly surprised. Great job NH! As a bonus, you know she hated to do it and it's fun imagining how unhappy it made her. Ayotte is a tool.

Why are the media waiting so long on things like this - it's why there isn't trust. If the media needs clicks how close it was to Matariki celebrations could have been enough. @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social was the main place This government is allowed to be unchecked too often.

Damn, I haven't caught up on what's happened to prompt this (just signed in) but in NZ classes with"out" trans kids they still tell the class during health talks that "being trans is a choice some adults make" so I can't see it taking much to go further here :(

"he's content" oh well then.

"Look" "what I will say to you" "is first thing" "I'm sorted" "we've inherited this from the last government"
"I'm happy with that" "we're trying something new" "I don't care what the experts say, we are going to try something different"

And boy are we paying #nzpol

Imagine being so evil/ignorant that you’re good with preventing scientists from finding a possible cure for various Cancers, the literal holy grail of medicine. 💊 #nzpol