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James Shaw was a crack up. Imagine going against one of your party policies and supporting a massive grant to an expensive private school with just 50 students because 'Green' and then having to apologise because a whole bunch of supporters were all WTF DUDE.
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Not that it changes the funding narrative, but to add some colour to the school (my kids went to the Bali version earlier this year and we visited the Taranaki one in April). They have 50 kids now, but it would be much larger absent Covid. About 100 have actually paid fees for the year, but the other 50 are stranded overseas. And they fielded a stack more enquiries from people who may (or may not) have joined during the year but obviously can't now.
Its an awesome space, the landscape is beautiful, and they do loads of work to cooperate and coexist with both nature and the local iwi.The school has been around in Bali for a long time, but they've just switched to a for-profit model, and are (were) expanding to NZ, Mexico and South Africa. The latter 2 have I believe been shelved for now. Not surprisingly, the for-profit model shift is causing considerable angst for current parents.
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I like this journalist. Not least his biting sense of humour.
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@JC said in NZ Politics:
So Ferners, is a new Matariki holiday going to buy your vote for Labour?
What is this Matariki? From whence did it originate?
I have only heard mention of it in the last year or two.
Something to do with the Pleiades?
What holiday are they going to drop to accomdate a new one?
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@booboo said in NZ Politics:
@JC said in NZ Politics:
So Ferners, is a new Matariki holiday going to buy your vote for Labour?
What is this Matariki? From whence did it originate?
I have only heard mention of it in the last year or two.
Something to do with the Pleiades?
What holiday are they going to drop to accomdate a new one?
Thank fuck I'm not the only one! I never had myself pegged as ignorant of Maori culture (I learned Te Reo to 5th form at school, gave multiple speeches in Maori at school events etc), but I'd never heard of this until this year.
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@booboo said in NZ Politics:
Matariki
Maori New Year, am i right? might be an over simplification, think ive heard of it for a bit longer than the last few years but not since i was a kid or anything
Waitangi day has become such a drama, a chance for a clean start at a "national day"?
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@Kiwiwomble said in NZ Politics:
Waitangi day has become such a drama, a chance for a clean start at a "national day"?
Yeah, but in winter? Just after QBday? Like, terribel timing folks.
If we're all about cultural sharing, I say get rid of easter, spread the holidays to better and more consistent times of the year, and can QBDay while we're at it.
Burn it all
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@Rembrandt said in NZ Politics:
Should a new holiday be floated at a time where we need to look at economic recovery?
If you've never had a really job? YES!
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@booboo said in NZ Politics:
@JC said in NZ Politics:
So Ferners, is a new Matariki holiday going to buy your vote for Labour?
What is this Matariki? From whence did it originate?
I have only heard mention of it in the last year or two.
Something to do with the Pleiades?
What holiday are they going to drop to accomdate a new one?
You’re asking an awful lot of questions @booboo . Here, eat this loaf and watch the circus.
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zzz@voodoo said in NZ Politics:
@booboo said in NZ Politics:
@JC said in NZ Politics:
So Ferners, is a new Matariki holiday going to buy your vote for Labour?
What is this Matariki? From whence did it originate?
I have only heard mention of it in the last year or two.
Something to do with the Pleiades?
What holiday are they going to drop to accomdate a new one?
Thank fuck I'm not the only one! I never had myself pegged as ignorant of Maori culture (I learned Te Reo to 5th form at school, gave multiple speeches in Maori at school events etc), but I'd never heard of this until this year.
Well I suspect I am quite ignorant and have been away from NZ for 16 + years. But would have thought something supposedly this significant would have been in our general psyche before then.
My first recollection was I think 2 years ago. Coz I recall walking on the beach in Mthe morning looking at the Pleiades and connecting it to Matariki which I had read on the Herald.
I reckon it's winning votes from people already voting for them.
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They have been pushing Matariki (or at least educating it more in schools which in turn means parents will pick it up) for the past 5-10 years I reckon.
They were talking to some fella this morning and he said there are all sorts of variables about when it occurs, which can be mid-June through to mid-July, which IMO kinda makes it a odd thing to celebrate, because for these holidays to work, they should be around the same time each year (QB 1st Monday in June, LD, last Monday in Oct) whereas this one could be the week after QB, or a whole 5 weeks later?
Also, how can the celebration of a new 'year' be so variable?
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@JC said in NZ Politics:
So Ferners, is a new Matariki holiday going to buy your vote for Labour?
It won't buy my vote but I do like the idea.
I think it will be quite cool to celebrate a new year in a New Zealand way. We are all part of the same bit of dirt under the same sky so I can get behind this quite easily.
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@taniwharugby As you say Matariki has been a thing for about a decade. they have Matariki Festivals in most NZ cities. Akl makes a fairly big thing of it as did Napier when I was there this year.
The date of observance changes because it wasn't / isn't observed when the constellation first appears in the night sky but when you get the first new moon after it appears.
I assume that the govt will pick a date for observance e.g. 2nd Monday in July or some such. Easter moves every year...
I think all the talk of economic ruin is a bit overblown. Some manufacturers will be affected but the impact will be relatively minimal for most. It's a long slog from Queens Bday to Labour Day (those names are anachronisms)
@Kiwiwomble said in NZ Politics:
Waitangi day has become such a drama, a chance for a clean start at a "national day"?
I don't think Waitangi Day has been such a bun fight recently and that's really only been at Waitangi itself and even then only at the lower marae. For most of NZ it's a day at teh beach
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@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
Easter moves every year...
yeah I was more looking at it in the sense if it fell in mid-June, you could have QB and then Matariki the following week.
I like the idea of a public Holiday in July, given we currently have a big gap from QB through to LD, and IIRC NZ has less Public Holidays than most of the countries we like to compare ourselves with.
Waitangi Day is less of an issue than the media like to make it out to be.
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