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Gordon Bennett

Harsh. Last year Southee had 24 wickets at 27 in tests, he's bowling as well as ever in red ball cricket imo. He and Henry won't be the problem IMO, it'll be whether the bowlers behind them can back it up now we're missing Wagner, Jamieson, Boult et al. Did you see him bowl against South Africa. Do...

Gordon Bennett

Sears has good FC numbers when he stays fit and on the field. His non-selection is a bit baffling to me. Sears has had regular injury issues. That's how O'Rourke, rightly, got ahead of him. Similarly, Fisher for ND seems to be injured with regularity and a big risk to play Australia and potentially...

Gordon Bennett

I believe I've read this before . Trounson Park is a 'feature' project for the Dept. of Conversation Whangarei office - - ideally placed for day trips and no need to clean the shiny ute afterwards. They've squandered a fortune there with minimal return whilst the finest stand of remanant Kauri at O...

Gordon Bennett

Sad news about Efeso Collins. Terrible.

Gordon Bennett

Now here's the rub . The fallacy is " they're everywhere" in the 'bush' and aerial broadcasting is the most effective way of delivering a fatal feed to the maximum number . Trichosurus vulpecula are highly developed socially and, for want of a better description prefer to hang around together . Mal...

Gordon Bennett

With a personal tally of over 10k of the furry vermin , this device has the most promise. For some reason, not supported by DOC or Forest & Bird. Can be loaded with 1080 for predator specific targeting and timing. https://www.connovation.co.nz/products/enviromate100tm-automated-bait-station The cos...

Gordon Bennett

Point of information: NZF were in Government and party to organising mass vaccination. They were not party to , and opposed mandatory Mass vaccination . Winston's rhetoric in the recent campaign was NOT anti-vax , but anti-mandate . Not that I agreed with it entirely, I thought it was just common s...

Gordon Bennett

And interesting read about the history of NCEA for those (like me) who don't work in the education field. One interesting and perhaps unintended consequence of this change is that, it turns out (in general terms) that male school students are better at the "big bang exam" approach to assessment and...

Gordon Bennett

Oh I see discussion has moved on from politics to corporal punishment. It is irrelevant in my view the fundamental problem is the attack on the nuclear family and the number of kids being brought up in single mother households without a father. Even if a male is present in the household he is more ...

Gordon Bennett

And interesting read about the history of NCEA for those (like me) who don't work in the education field. Why was NCEA introduced? Reliance on exams Secondary school qualifications relied heavily on exams (external assessment) meaning not all a student’s learning throughout the year was considered....

Gordon Bennett

I was dumbfounded however that (if it were true) the NZ education levels were so far behind an internationally recognised educational standard. None of this surprises me. NCEA doesn't gear up school leavers to succeed at university. If a school near me was offering Cambridge or IB, then I'd send my...

Gordon Bennett

I was dumbfounded however that (if it were true) the NZ education levels were so far behind an internationally recognised educational standard. None of this surprises me. NCEA doesn't gear up school leavers to succeed at university. If a school near me was offering Cambridge or IB, then I'd send my...

Gordon Bennett

It does sound increasingly like any tax cut that National provide is going to be rapidly swallowed up by rates increases required to address the water infrastructure deficit. The mayor of Buller District was on RNZ this morning talking about how the rates bill for an average home in Westport was lik...

Gordon Bennett

And, like many NZ batsmen, he's been played as an opener when he's not really an opener. He's been in great ODI form. Whereas the alternative, Henry Nicholls, hasn't been.

Gordon Bennett

UncleFB wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:38 am
Gordon Bennett wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 4:37 am
jono45 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 3:59 am

Get some charter schools in ya !!!
PTEs have existed in the tertiary sector for years. Not sure that many of them are doing particularly flash these days either tbph.
PTE's aren't Charter schools though.

I know that, but PTEs are the 'private sector' providing to tertiary education.

Gordon Bennett

The country's tertiary education system continues to report financial stress and falling domestic enrolments. What will the Government do? Get some charter schools in ya !!! PTEs have existed in the tertiary sector for years. Not sure that many of them are doing particularly flash these days either...

Gordon Bennett

You can only assume the movement was from Greens to ACT & National. I suspect Mr Mike's assumption that there's been a bit of slip along the spectrum is more likely. More right-wing Greens shifting to Labour, more right-wing Labour shifting to National and then ACT picking up some National and NZF ...

Gordon Bennett

Flying under the radar a little too easily, but the current government has nixed a proposal to draw various research organisation together in an effort to both maximise and boost funding for aging research infrastructure. I don't want to say too much about this, but this is like the IReX issue. It'...

Gordon Bennett

Not sure how any green party could work with a party advocating for bringing back live exports https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/02/renewed-concerns-about-live-animal-exports-restarting-in-new-zealand-after-australian-operation-goes-wrong.html This assumes that there's no negotiation ...

Gordon Bennett

I'm not sure a one trick party would be that viable, and if that trick is the environment I don't see how they could buddy up with a party reopening offshore oil & gas, dropping obligations for farmers, raiding the ets for tax cuts and potentially talking about mining on DOC land Ah, but how much o...

Gordon Bennett

That's a party that would be dead in an election cycle. Do you also want a Labour party that had NOTHING to say on any issue other than workers? ;) Again a silly comparison. Labour would be the major party in any Labour lead coalition Govt so of course they should campaign on all issues. The Greens...

Gordon Bennett

Reducing our emissions from Transport and industry would be nice too, but I think those solutions are likely to be imported, we simply don't have the expertise to contribute much in this area. That's actually not true. There's some great research going in New Zealand on methods for zero-carbon stee...

Gordon Bennett

Met a guy from the Republic of Tuva yesterday. No surprises why he'd moved away from Russia about a year ago. Also interesting was when I drove past the Russian Embassy here a couple of weeks ago, it had clearly had a few graffiti attacks. The Russians had scrubbed off the word "Putin" but not scrub...

Gordon Bennett

He’s not gone , just gone as leader isn’t he ? He said he'd see through a private members bill and then retire. Not sure how long that'll take "Shaw would not say on Tuesday what his plans for the future were, although he said he hoped to continue working in an environmental field. He noted that he...

Gordon Bennett

James Shaw gone https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350161546/live-james-shaw-step-down-green-party-co-leader He was the best part of the Greens - perhaps the only good part. Agreed, I like James Shaw, he really did seem to be in the wrong political party though, probably would have been better suited ...

Gordon Bennett

At the moment, for example, we send a large quantity of unprocessed pine logs offshore and a smaller quantity of semi-processed framing timber, yet pay more for our framing timber in New Zealand than it can be purchased, in relative terms, overseas. We also experience framing and landscaping timber...

Gordon Bennett

Anyone know how Road User Charges for all is likely to work? Having never owned a diesel, I don't know much about it, but as far as I can tell. 1. Fuel tax on Diesel is much lower (is it zero?) because RUC exist. 2. RUC is levied on a per-kilometre basis 3. EVs and PHEVs are moving onto RUC with PHE...

Gordon Bennett

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/301037952/green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-stands-down-from-roles-over-allegations Golly G does a little pilfering... This is very off brand. Shouldn't she be shoplifting from a co-operative tofu and hemp trader? It won't go down well with the Greens that she's half...

Gordon Bennett

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/301037952/green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-stands-down-from-roles-over-allegations Golly G does a little pilfering... This is very off brand. Shouldn't she be shoplifting from a co-operative tofu and hemp trader? It won't go down well with the Greens that she's half...

Gordon Bennett

Ask for movie advice 3 times and My Name Is Bill will appear with a list of the only films worth watching. You have been warned.

Gordon Bennett

booji boy wrote: ↑Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:47 pm Arise Sir Trevor.

Knights companion (KNZM)
Dr Scott Duncan Macfarlane, Greenlane, Auckland, for services to health

Right Hon Trevor Colin Mallard, Dublin, for services as a member of Parliament and as Speaker of the House of Representatives

Ugh. What a farce..

Gordon Bennett

MoonBatto wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2023 2:45 am This board, and dare I say it, the entire world seems a meaner, darker, place since Jacinda left us.

She's not dead, mate.

Gordon Bennett

Easily Hutt to Porirua. The amount of people and things making that trip would be a couple of orders of magnitudes larger than those crossing the strait. There's already SH58 and SH1/2 to take you from the Hutt to Porirua. How would a third route that's a bit shorter (but with a steeper gradient) b...

Gordon Bennett

It's actually the price which is the issue. Don't be so infantile. I don’t believe it when they’re willing to pursue roads of similar cost. What is more strategically important- crossing the Cook Strait or reducing the travelling distance between the Hutt and Porirua by 5km? Easily Hutt to Porirua....

Gordon Bennett

Yep, throw the baby out with the bathwater and try for another pregnancy while the trauma is still raw. It's ideological fuckwittery. It's also pretty much what Tearangi was posting on the previous pages. Road transport is comparatively expensive compared top rail. A significant proportion of that ...

Gordon Bennett

I reserve the right to compare any announced infrastructure investment with the cancelled Cook Strait Upgrade. Note that the Cook Strait Upgrade had increased to $3bn. Contrast this with Chris Bishop's ongoing focus on the Petone to Granada road (a very short, geotechnically difficult road - as the ...

Gordon Bennett

Cancellation of the ferry replacement is bloody short sighted. Sure, the cost has ballooned, but those ships need replacing and it sure as hell isn’t going to get cheaper. When they finally give up the ghost and it’s then $3bn for the ships alone, the short termism of this decision will be laid bare.

Gordon Bennett

What sort of space do you need for VR? Half thinking of it as a whole family present this year. Any fans of it on here? Depends what game you're playing. I have an Oculus Quest and with a few mates with similar headsets, we occasionally play multi-player VR mini-golf. You can play that in about a s...

Gordon Bennett

NZ Herald reporting that NZ first have overtaken ACT in their latest polling. NZ First up to over 8%. The Party Maori up over 5%. I guess the treaty issue is really backfiring on ACT, even within the centre right. I think we are seeing evidence that even the centre right don't want to dick with the...

Gordon Bennett

Donald Tusk formally gets the numbers to become Polish PM. More Ukraine-friendly after the recent tensions of the previous government I believe, although the hardline conservative president is still there. I’m not sure who has more power in the Polish system. President has a veto, I believe. And Tu...

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