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OECD · WellingtonReading Time: 3 minutes By Rachel Keedwell, chair of Horizons Regional Council When I read the piece in Farmers Weekly last week from Federated Farmers Manawatū-Rangitīkei president Ian Strahan, there were parts I could agree with. Kiwi farmers are working hard to improve the environment, supported by Horizons through programmes like the Sustainable Land Use Initiative and partnerships via groups including the Manawatū River Leaders’ Accord. S…See the Story
Horizons between a rock and a hard place
New Zealand · New ZealandEducation Minister Erica Standford yesterday unveiled a fundamental reform of the way our school pupils are taught. She would not exactly say so, but she is all but dismantling the so-called “inquiry” “feel good” method of teaching, which has ruled in our classrooms since a major review of the New Zealand curriculum in 2007. That curriculum is to be replaced with a return to a more traditional method of teaching, which will require teachers to i…See the Story
“Feel good” school is out
New Zealand · New ZealandIt is hard to see what Melissa Lee might have done to “save” the media. National went into the election with no public media policy and appears not to have developed one subsequently. Lee claimed that she had prepared a policy paper before the election but it had been decided not to release it. Beyond that, her few public utterances as broadcasters began to shed jobs and news programmes closed were restricted to implying that the market would so…See the Story
What did Melissa Lee do?
Infrastructure · New ZealandThe infrastructure industry yesterday issued a “hurry up” message to the Government, telling it to get cracking on developing a pipeline of infrastructure projects.The hiatus around the change of Government has seen some major projects cancelled and others delayed, and there is uncertainty about what will happen with the new local body-driven three-water projects.In a comprehensive survey of its members, InfrastructureNZ found that the hiatus an…See the Story
What is really holding up infrastructure
Winston Peters · New ZealandForeign Minister Winston Peters is understood to be planning a major speech within the next fortnight to clear up the confusion over whether or not New Zealand might join the AUKUS submarine project. So far, there have been conflicting signals from the Government. RNZ reported the Prime Minister yesterday in Bangkok as saying only that the Government was open to exploring what entry into Pillar Two of AUKUS might involve. “We’ll work our way thr…See the Story
Clearing up confusion (or trying to)
Poverty · WhangareiTurning what Labour called the “holiday highway” into a four-lane expressway from Auckland to Whangarei could bring an economic benefit of nearly two billion a year for Northland each year. And it could help bring an end to poverty in one of New Zealand’s most deprived regions. The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) has produced a study of the impact of an expressway for a consortium of Northland businesses. Its says a four lane…See the Story
Fighting poverty on the holiday highway
New Zealand · New ZealandWhile commentators, including former Prime Minister Helen Clark, are noting a subtle shift in New Zealand’s foreign policy, which now places more emphasis on the United States, many have missed a key element of the shift. What National said before the election is not what the government is doing now. It would seem that the harder foreign policy line long preferred by NZ First Leader Winston Peters has prevailed over National’s traditional suppor…See the Story