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Lol spending half a percent of GDP to buy out a couple of hundred wrecked properties.
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And another bunch of money for some roads. Meanwhile teachers and nurses etc get told there's no money for them. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/government-tips-extra-252m-into-beleaguered-road-programme/S4CAOLK4QVEWHNNDWNR3VHM5KI/
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Saros posted:Lol spending half a percent of GDP to buy out a couple of hundred wrecked properties. what do you think should happen
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Why does labour exist again remind me
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exmarx posted:lol the difference in framing here is so insane i enjoyed this one https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300894762/cyclone-gabrielle-buyout-plan-esk-valley-locals-want-more-answers posted:A man who has lived in Esk Valley his whole life feels his family may be ‘financially blackmailed’ to leave their home. my favorite kind of blackmail is when the government gives you hundreds of thousands of dollars
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Jun 2, 2023 00:59
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 In fairness, a few hundred thousand ain't gonna do much in this loving market.
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Buy the dip
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:Buy the dip Pretty sure Wayne Brown's got enough kickbacks as it is
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WarpedNaba posted:Pretty sure Wayne Brown's got enough kickbacks as it is Someone buy him an account so we can see the meltdown when, as it seems likely, his bullshit budget doesn't get approved by a majority
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Actually, in slightly more altruistic news, the Epsom blood donation centre's looking for Plasma volunteers to help validate this new machine they've cobbled together for next week If I stop posting after a week, chances are it had a problem with giving embolisms during the replenish cycle.
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exmarx posted:what do you think should happen I honestly am not across the detail but it is a staggeringly large amount of money to give to a few hundred households who are generally going to be already fairly well off and have insurance. Largely so we can just kick the can on managed retreat past the election. 1 billion dollars could for example feed and clothe every one of the 150,000 children in poverty in NZ for 3-5 years.
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Oh cool, I should pop over now that my blood is cleared again.
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Saros posted:who are generally going to be already fairly well off Source? Saros posted:have insurance Doesn't cover the now uninhabitable land. Saros posted:Largely so we can just kick the can on managed retreat past the election. Isn't this a part of managed retreat?
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Saros posted:I honestly am not across the detail but it is a staggeringly large amount of money to give to a few hundred households who are generally going to be already fairly well off and have insurance. Largely so we can just kick the can on managed retreat past the election. category 3 is literally managed retreat, and i suspect category 2 will be even more expensive. a big part of the issue in hawke's bay and tairāwhiti (and the rest of the country) is lack of insurance! exmarx fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Jun 2, 2023 |
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Slavvy posted:Why does labour exist again remind me pressure release valve
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WarpedNaba posted:Actually, in slightly more altruistic news, the Epsom blood donation centre's looking for Plasma volunteers to help validate this new machine they've cobbled together for next week I donated today and one of the nurses calmly watched an air bubble travel back up from the machine towards my arm. "Don't worry, the machine takes care of it" she said. I'm still here so I guess it did, but hosed if I know how.
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Well, it's not like I have anything worth living for anyway. And on the plus side, it's close enough to Greenlane that my organs will still be fresh.
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/491237/christopher-luxon-proves-to-be-a-traffic-stopper-in-new-plymouth Lol at this entire article
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I heard about that on RNZ on the way home today. They noted that most of the audience were maybe 60+ and interviewed the youngest person they could find there. What did that guy want? First thing out of his mouth was 'an end to co-governance', then he started talking about how what schools teach today disgust him (his words). Only guy younger than 60 they could find and he's a loving internet Nazi. Don't know if the interviewer pushed back at all, I turned the radio off after that.
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/491237/christopher-luxon-proves-to-be-a-traffic-stopper-in-new-plymouth If it is any indication of what his election PR tour is going to be like he is screwed. The regressives were out in big numbers and practically nobody else. As the leader of a centrist party he couldn't even use doublespeak to meet them halfway. Luxon pointed out that the average age is 38 feeling old many of whom grew up with some exposure to Te Reo. I think this shows that there is real demographic on the right that is not being catered to, imagine how Peters would have handled this crowd. 
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Winnie is the best politician this country has ever seen, he would have owned that crowd
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lmao the amount of brainworms that must be in the room that rnz only managed to include one non-culture-war question, and that's just "yes we'll keep doing fossil fuels"
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Looking forward to the incoming hot takes on Damehood.
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Spyderizer posted:Looking forward to the incoming hot takes on Damehood. Jacindame
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Slavvy posted:Why does labour exist again remind me So you can Vote and feel good about yourself
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The cowardly NZEI have accepted the government's latest offer, while the chad PPTA have rejected.
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Why are they different unions?!? Stink buzz, my kids teacher was saying they are so stretched and need smaller classes or more teacher aids so bad. A teacher's life must be teaching 24/7, just about. She works all night it seems like
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Relative to past offers that the unions have settled on its very generous. Slightly smaller class sizes, enough classroom release time for a half day every week (from two->five days per term), 10%ish or more pay increase over the next two years, eliminating the bottom step on the pay scale so beginning teachers earn $60k+ now. All good poo poo, but there's just this deep acknowledgement that the sector needs so much more even just to stay afloat. I don't know why the unions are separate, I'm sure there are historic reasons. NZEI represents primary teachers, support staff (including at secondary schools) and ECE. PPTA is just teachers and some support staff. School caretakers can't join either union for whatever dumb reason.
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It is one thing for the agreement to promise smaller class sizes. But can they actually deliver on it? The big issue the PPTA is worried about is recruitment and retention. At the moment there just aren’t enough people going in to teaching as a career and many who had are leaving fairly early. They want a big pay increase to make it an attractive career to allow them to recruit to have smaller classes and more release time etc. Also a teacher’s life isn’t jus teaching teaching teaching. There is so much other stuff they are having to do. The time in and preparing for the classroom is maybe half their job.
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Imagine being a teen in 2023 and deciding to go into education as a career, what a completely broken individual.
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Xik posted:Imagine being a teen in 2023 and deciding to go into education as a career, what a completely broken individual. This but the cops
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Xik posted:Imagine being a teen in 2023
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Xik posted:Imagine being a teen in 2023 and deciding to go into education as a career, what a completely broken individual. This is why pushing STEM is bad, start funding arts degrees again. Many of my friends who graduated with theatre degrees and crushed dreams became teachers.
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whoops, our important system that takes years to increase the number of qualified workers is falling apart due to chronic underinvestment for decades, and no one wants to start the long and expensive qualification needed to enter the field because they're not loving stupid oh well, nothing to be done. the only thing we can do now is privatize the whole thing
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Isn't it a one year course on top of any degree?
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I remember seeing which way the wind was blowing back when I was 16, decided to go into accounting rather than the arts so I would at least have enough time and money to work on my voice acting hobby Then the great recession hit just as I graduated uni. Too clever by half, it seems.
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