Posts by Danielle
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Hard News: Reading the Numbers, in reply to
be able to set their own teaching practice, and will not have to stick to the national curriculum
Oh, *great*. Profit-turning schools pumping out ignorant fundies at a rate of knots.
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Up Front: Sex with Parrots, in reply to
NZ’s policy of allowing non-citizen, permanent residents to vote in national elections (but not to be representatives) is a huge conceptual loss for the country
The first 30 years of my life are a huge conceptual loss for New Zealand! Bummer.
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Hard News: Press Play > Budget, in reply to
Well, the drip feed nature of student loan draw downs makes this unlikely.
Yeah, that's basically impossible. It's not like American student loans which arrive in a lump sum with no strings attached. NZ student loans pay the course fees directly to the institution and the $1000 lump sum is as much as you can get at once.
(I'm down to $24,000! And I've only had the loan since... 1992. I'm a winner.)
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Hard News: Press Play > Budget, in reply to
It’s always easy to get a laugh from your fan-club.
You know how Elvis had the Memphis Mafia, and they all had to laugh uproariously at his unfunny jokes? Yeah. TCB.
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Hard News: Press Play > Budget, in reply to
I wish the Prime Minister could bear in mind that his job is not stand-up comedian in chief.
Particularly as he is NEVER FUNNY.
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What "advantage" is "preserved" by staying on the DPB, though? Unless you're saying that rich people are preserving their advantages over beneficiaries using cultural reproduction, as B points out.
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the social reproduction cycle
What does this phrase even mean?
(I have a feeling the definition is going to cause my teeth to grind uncomfortably, but I have to ask anyway.)
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to
I was once walking her (on a lead) and she was plodding along boringly. We came around a corner and another pedestrian actually *screamed* at the sight of her! In west Auckland! I therefore assume she is scary-looking. Or possibly hideous. ;)
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Hard News: The Editorial Image, in reply to
Apart from anything else, long-acting contraceptives for women don't protect against STDs. The government can't even manage a decent concern troll act when it comes to poor women's health.
Deborah's links roundup of local writings about this might help us to work out why this particular policy has very little to do with 'pragmatism'.
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