Your last comment is interesting. Care to elaborate? I may consider unblocking Panda - (him/her, it or them).
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Factcheck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamloo...dential_School
In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada determined that the residential schools were a system of "cultural genocide". It concluded that at least 4,100 students died while attending the schools, many of them due to abuse, negligence, disease, and accidents. The report concluded that it would be impossible to estimate the total number of deaths that occurred at the schools.
Haven't spotted Blue Skies around these parts lately.
Surprising they would go mute in the middle of an election?
Or no longer on the Labour party payroll?
Ex minister of education, Chris Hipkins and his mother Rosemary Hipkins, should be held to account for the dire state of our education system.
"If you want to see what the government of New Zealand is up to with respect to science education, you can’t do better than listening to this video/slideshow by two exponents of the “we-need-two-knowledge-systems” view. This one site sums up how science education in New Zealand is circling the drain."
https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com...mess-that.html
How can you have different ages for the pension?
The pension is welfare, funny no one complains about this sort of welfare.
It's well overdue for the pension to be means tested. There should be no requirement for the Government to pay welfare to those who clearly don't need it.
Of course the pension is welfare.
If you can't explain it then perhaps there is a reason for that.
If it triggers you like it apparently does, that's because it's an uncomfortable truth.
I'm not against the pension at all but it's the equivalent of a universal basic income for retirees.
I estimate if the pension was means tested the Government would save about $2Bln per annum & that saving would only grow over time.
And before you say we paid our taxes to earn a pension, some did, some didn't but the taxes paid did not fund it sufficiently and if hadn't been for the Michael Cullen's Future Fund, pensions would be even more unaffordable.
People are so easily triggered on this site.
Even when confronting the truth.
We could all learn from taking a deep breath at times, including me.
The only welfare that is not allocated on a needs basis is the pension.
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This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. (July 2010)
Social welfare has long been an important part of New Zealand society and a significant political issue. It is concerned with the provision by the state of benefits and services. Together with fiscal welfare and occupational welfare, it makes up the social policy of New Zealand. Social welfare is mostly funded through general taxation. Since the 1980s welfare has been provided on the basis of need; the exception is universal superannuation.
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