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5:30 pm, August 5th, 2025 - 5 comments
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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
The Foreshore and Seabed law is back.
Public domain is back in fashion.
The Court of Appeal opened the issue back up in 2023
and despite the Supreme Court ruling otherwise, it has not gone away being picked up NZF and now the government.
Probably to hide the fact that they intend to open up the sale of our taonga – coastal land, lakeside and riverside land to foreigners.
Did Goldsmith make a submission on changes to OIO legislation?
https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/08/05/government-forges-ahead-with-foreshore-and-seabed-law/
Rotten.
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https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/crimson-education-s-unfair-contract-terms
https://bsky.app/profile/mountaintui.bsky.social/post/3lvmnvjefrk2s
The Question We Must Ask
When we choose the future of our education system, whose voice would we rather follow?
The billionaire consultant who has never taught a day in a New Zealand classroom and profits from fear? Or the teacher who has dedicated his life to nurturing the invisible intelligence of the very students our system risks leaving behind?
We must be aware of whose opinions – and whose lack of evidence – are informing the dismantling of NCEA. Because the direction we take now will shape the opportunities and aspirations of generations of young people.
Whose voice is guiding us?
And is it one we truly trust?
https://www.engaginglearningvoices.com/post/ncea-s-future-decided-beaton-vs-welby-ings-and-the-pretence-of-consultation
Were both Crimson Education and TVNZ in cahoots with the Minister in the publicity to sell the policy?
Abolishing NCEA has a very similar feel to scrapping iREX. Done without much thought, for ideological reasons, and for promotional purposes in part in order to distract.
And the result will be the same, we’ll end up with something smaller, narrower, and less capable.
In Sydney on Sunday 90,000 marched against genocidal pariah state, Israel. The courts sat the NSW Premier and Police, who tried to ban the protest, back down in their seats:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360779375/despite-worst-fears-and-weather-was-day-sydney-took-stand-humanity