Posts by Carol Stewart
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Hard News: Steven Joyce: Prick or Treat, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Yes, I do too. Scientists are amazing people.
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I'll respectfully disagree with you there, Bart, though I much admire your pragmatism. In the sector I'm in there's a high level of despondency, cynicism and anger about this new funding structure, which is widely seen as a great leap backwards and a criminal waste of time.
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Hard News: Steven Joyce: Prick or Treat, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Hear! Hear!
I believe party lists are the price we pay for MMP, Sofie.
Of course we could try doing as they do in Baden-Wurttemberg:
In Baden-Württemberg there are no lists; they use the "best near-winner" method in a four-region model, where the regional members are the local candidates of the under-represented party in that region who received the most votes in their local constituency without being elected in it. -
Hard News: Steven Joyce: Prick or Treat, in reply to Russell Brown,
Swears fully justified, sir.
My reaction to that NZAS survey was much the same as yours .. -
Hard News: The crybaby philosopher, in reply to Kumara Republic,
blackwhyte
Fifty shades of Whyte?
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Hard News: Steven Joyce: Prick or Treat, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Good on you, Bart. I think most of my colleagues who've been heavily involved have approached the whole exercise with goodwill and good faith also.
Increasing the Marsden fund was a pretty consistent theme among the responses to the NZAS survey. -
Steven Joyce is also bullishly insisting that all is well with the National Science Challenges, despite steadily accumulating evidence that NSC are turning into a Novopay-scale trainwreck. See here also for a summary of the NZ Association of Scientists' survey across the science sector about the NSC process. It is quite remarkably damning.
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Hard News: Te Reo Māori in schools:…, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
All the children my age spoke pretty good English
My German cousins have taught me what it means to be truly bilingual. They grew up in Germany in a household where they spoke English at home, as my aunt is English. My older cousin in particular is indistinguishable from a native English speaker in my opinion; she can do everything in English that you and I can do. My aunt speaks excellent functional and fluent German, having lived there for 40 years or so, but my cousin says that you can tell immediately that German is not her first language as she makes heaps of small grammatical mistakes etc.
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Hard News: Labour's Fiscal Plan:…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I thought Parker was excellent this morning,
I thought he was also excellent on the TV news last night in responding to the bottle of wine story. Calm and authoritative.
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Quite. It sounds horrid.