Posts by Sacha
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Average wage or median wage? :)
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Yes, commercial property boom on the back of banks seeking avenues for lending. And milking sheds for all the conversions to dairy farming. And tractors. And factory equipment, once the incentives to just hire more low wage labour were changed slightly by the incoming Lab govt in 1999.
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Oops. Sorry, David.
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From when we were discussing educational stats here last year, I think you are right about the skew in our recent school-leaver achievement levels
Actually, I was wrong. Here's my post from our original discussion about Tolley rushing through "standards" testing - including links to the international PISA results.
Only 3 of the other participating countries had a mean reading literacy score that was significantly higher than New Zealand’s.
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Rob, I think the improvement in business investment was from a very low base (but I have no links to back that, but recall Rod Oram raising it somewhere).
From when we were discussing educational stats here last year, I think you are right about the skew in our recent school-leaver achievement levels - though as you point out that does not say much about the rest of our existing workforce.
However, I agree with Mr Hayward's analysis that the biggest improvement in our business productivity is likely to come from investing in the quality of our management and governance. Surely it's one reason our companies get monstered so regularly when they try to do business in Australia?
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I wasn't at the selection meeting and am not involved with any of the parties. However, also from the Standard, a poster claiming to be from the local Labour branch reports a stitch up:
Shearer came a distant 4th at the selection, and did even worse at the Q&A.
I’d prefer Labour didn’t bother with the farsical venner of democratic process, it’s just an insult to it’s members.
I am very angry with what happened at that ’selection’ and you know perfectly well, if you were there, that a lot of people who left that hall were very angry too. screw you and screw your party. it definitely isn’t my party any more. good luck with hiring enough volunteers to run to campaign because after that fiasco don’t expect too many grassroots volunteers.
It's politics, so I am surprised when people of any stripe expect it to be fair.
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Oh, come on. The Herald is clearly a Nat lapdog, but RNZ? Endangering your credibility with that claim.
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After the byelection. :)
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Herald reports McCully:
It was taxpayers' money and "its expenditure should be overseen by elected office holders able to be held to account at the ballot box - not by faceless, unelected, unaccountable aid bureaucrats."
The current aid focus on poverty alleviation was "too lazy and incoherent" to make the best use of the money.
The aid mandate would now focus on sustainable economic growth with objective measures such as trade and tourism statistics as indicators of success.
Yep, that poverty reduction is lazy stuff all right. Not crisp and clear enough either, according to my pal Rodney.
Thank goodness for our bold, decisive hero who (unlike them so-called experts) knows that aid just needs to be reduced to a matter of attracting more tourists like himself. Should work a treat in Fiji. Next.
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the old fart escaping from it
His choice of new digs supports your supposition. Rotorua. Heh.
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