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Allan Alach @allanalach.bsky.social · 1d

An ideal situation would be ACT under 5% and National so desperate to win seats that they terminate the Epson arrangement!

Allan Alach @allanalach.bsky.social · 1d

Erica Stanford's plan to change NZ schooling must be stopped - my latest article

Stanford’s Drive to Impose an Overseas Developed Curriculum in NZ Schools | The Daily Blog

thedailyblog.co.nz

Allan Alach @allanalach.bsky.social · 2d

Senile or just plain incompetent and very biased?

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 8d

Shades of the ferries and Dunedin hospital and the polytechs. Scrap the existing programme without warning or planning, create an expensive muddle, then replace it with something less good and more expensive. All for the sake of ideology.
#nzpol

Education Minister Erica Stanford accused of 'manufacturing a crisis'

Reforms will unleash a "tsunami of work", says a former school principal and NZQA executive.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 8d

Manafacturing an NCEA crisis while ghosting the cost of living crisis they were supposedly elected on. #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Education Minister Erica Stanford accused of 'manufacturing a crisis'

Reforms will unleash a "tsunami of work", says a former school principal and NZQA executive.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Allan Alach @allanalach.bsky.social · 8d

Based on an excellent arctic;e by Bail Haque
thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/09/30/q...

Questions for the Education Minister: what crisis are you solving? | The Daily Blog

thedailyblog.co.nz

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Allan Alach @allanalach.bsky.social · 8d

This needs to be investigated.

Has Erica Stanford Been Negligent or Deceitful? | The Daily Blog

thedailyblog.co.nz

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 10d

This is an excellent chat between two eloquent and informed people.
I stayed up way past my bedtime last night watching it.

Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 11d

How wealth inequality is destroying democracies worldwide w/ Chloe Swarbrick MP

youtu.be/zl_LgDjpzxE

The first politician on Gary's Economics

YouTube video by Garys Economics

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Allan Alach @allanalach.bsky.social · 9d

I think your best guess is spot on.

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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 9d

Stanford’s Curriculum Change Process: Erasure Of Māori And Pacific Authors Achieved By Violating Democratic Process. Yes, That Matters.

Amidst the propaganda blitz that Stanford has launched on the education sector, it might seem finicky for me to keep brining up issues around process. Surely, if Stanford’s arguments are righ…

bevanholloway.com

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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 10d

This is a brilliant interview. Chloe has to be the most economically literate politician in AONZ right now. youtu.be/zl_LgDjpzxE?... #nzpol

The first politician on Gary's Economics

YouTube video by Garys Economics

youtu.be

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 11d

Even the landmark 2022 Peter Ellis case that recognises tikanga as the first law of Aotearoa is up for legislative debate.

Justice Minister looks to legislate ‘over top of’ tikanga and Treaty court decisions

newsroom.co.nz

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 11d

You may not find it on the front pages - or even sports pages - of the four big local media companies, but Niamh Fisher-Black won the silver medal in last night’s women’s road race at the world champs in Rwanda.
And yes, that’s a big deal.

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Allan Alach @allanalach.bsky.social · 13d

At a guess I'd say it has something to do with the Treaty.

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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 13d

The junior maths curriculum is being rewritten in England.

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Allan Alach @allanalach.bsky.social · 16d

The gulf between Arden and Luxon is light years wide

Jim Smith @jism.bsky.social · 16d

Woah. Jon Stewart got Jacinda on the Daily Show. Twenty minute interview. #nzpol
youtu.be/xJg1McSvgo8?...

Jacinda Ardern - “A Different Kind of Power” | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Kyle MacDonald @kylemacd.bsky.social · 16d

Can’t wait for the Ian Taylor “letter
to Jon” think piece 🙃

Jim Smith @jism.bsky.social · 16d

Woah. Jon Stewart got Jacinda on the Daily Show. Twenty minute interview. #nzpol
youtu.be/xJg1McSvgo8?...

Jacinda Ardern - “A Different Kind of Power” | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

youtu.be

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Brian Dunning @briandunning.bsky.social · 16d

Tomorrow is the Rapture! Take an old pair of shoes, put a piece of dry ice inside each. Have fun.

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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 17d

Also, is this the “significant announcement in Auckland” that meant Stanford had to cancel her speech at the PPTA conference because the day clashed?

Because if so, this is the wrong day.

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Allan Alach @allanalach.bsky.social · 17d

he spends his days pretending to be a prime minister so what's different about him pretending to be a construction worker?

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 17d

Is it really "fast-tracking" or "accelerating" when it's basically restarting some of the 100-odd projects you iced a year ago, putting the construction sector into a nosedive? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...