Erica Stanford: Supporting More Tamariki Māori To Flourish

An additional $60m of ring-fenced funding for Mori Medium and Kaupapa Mori Education property, which will deliver up to 50 new classrooms to support the network, providing access to immersion schooling for approximately an additional 1,100 konga.

The Government is delivering over $100 million in investment through Budget 2025 to ensure more tamariki Māori thrive at school.

Tui Vaeau: The Great Maori Education Racket - A State Funded Farce

One could be forgiven for thinking that education in New Zealand is about preparing children for success, arming them with the knowledge and skills to thrive in an unforgiving world. But no, that quaint notion has been tossed aside in favour of racial indulgence on an industrial scale. The latest fawning piece in The Post sings the praises of Maori-medium schooling, an insular, state-funded vanity project that serves no purpose beyond appeasing the usual professional grievance-mongers.

David Lillis: Educational Racism?

Postmodernists and, by extension, most identity politics theorists draw on social constructivist epistemology. Social constructivists argue that all human knowledge is ‘socially constructed’ from extant cultural raw materials, and we cannot know anything outside our shared cultural frames of reference. This means that they reject any notion of truth or objectivity that exists ‘out there’, as all meaning is ‘internal’ to human perception.Doug Stokes in Against Decolonisation, page 86.

Point of Order: Rachel Brooking hates waste....

....and she wants us to know about a $20m trough (funded by levies) to help reduce it

It was tempting – for a moment – to suggest Rachel Brooking become an Associate Minister of Finance to keep Grant Robertson on the straight and narrow.

The temptation was triggered by Brooking’s speech (as Associate Minister for the Environment) to the WasteMINZ conference in Hamilton, when she declared: