The weekly sermons from Canterbury Baptist Church in Melbourne Australia.
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Our mission is to help you know Jesus personally and show Him to others.
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Every weekday join the new voice of local issues on Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald, 9am-12pm weekdays. It’s all about the conversation with John, as he gets right into the things that get our community talking. If it’s news you’re after, backing John is the combined power of the Newstalk ZB and New Zealand Herald news teams. Meaning when it comes to covering breaking news – you will not beat local radio. With two decades experience in communications based in Christchurch, John also ...
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This is Canterbury Court's Daily Activity Listing. A podcast to keep you in the loop of all things fun happening at Canterbury!
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A podcast where we meet the people of Canterbury Baptist Church in Melbourne Australia, hear their stories, and explore ideas relevant to our Church and Community.
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Trying to find the solutions behind optimised human movement and holistic health. Speaking to industry leaders from various disciplines and ideologies around human movement, health and performance. Exploring various topics and providing impactful takeaways that you can use to improve your training and lifestyle.
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Your chance to hear expert speakers from all walks of life debating, informing and extending their passion for their subject. Our public lectures cover subjects as diverse as health, the arts, faith and education. Speakers range from leading academics, to public figures and entertainers.
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Anyone who has ever been on a package tour with a group of strangers who soon become friends, and passed time swapping stories with them, would instantly identify with this timeless classic of English literature. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer recounts twenty different stories recounted by a diverse group of pilgrims who gather at The Tabard Inn in Southwark, near London, before setting out for the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury. The Host of the inn proposes that they entert ...
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John MacDonald: Shane Jones' billion dollar opportunity
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Mining is on the way back. That’s the message today from Regional Development and Resources Minister Shane Jones who is on the West coast to announce the Government's proposal to double mining exports (which are already worth $1 billion) by allowing mining in some conservation areas - not just for coal, but other minerals too. The Government says o…
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“Mending Our World” Galatians 5:16–17, 22–26 (Stephen Field)
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God has called us to participate with Him in His work of mending. The world is broken in so many ways: broken people, broken relationships, broken systems, broken communities. And, we also are broken in our own way. But the very parts of us that are the most broken are exactly the parts that God is wanting to mend in us, so we can then go and mend …
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Redemption Church podcast with Blake Canterbury - Introduction.
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Our mission is to help you know Jesus personally and show Him to others.Oleh Blake Canterbury
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John MacDonald: Housing policies should address needs - not wants
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So, it looks like the Government is going to ditch the First Home Buyers Scheme which gives people up to $10,000 to help get them into their first home. All up, it costs the Government $60 million a year. It seems that money’s going to go into social housing instead. And it’s tick, tick, tick from me. That’s because, even though I think there is a …
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Chris Hipkins: Labour Leader on the Government potentially dropping first-home buyer grants
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John MacDonald was joined this morning by Chris Hipkins for their regular catchup. Labour's leader is warning the Government it shouldn't can a grant for first home buyers. An inquiry led by former PM Sir Bill English has found Kainga Ora needs to find significant savings to be financially viable. The Housing Minister says every programme the state…
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John MacDonald: Kāinga Ora needs to get its house in order
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What an absolute shambles Kāinga Ora sounds like. But, let’s be honest, even though the Government is making noises about what a shocker this investigation and report by Sir Bill English is - it’s probably quietly quite pleased with it, don't you think? And, for me, the key thing it all comes down to is how involved a government, of any persuasion,…
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Heath Franklin: 'Chopper' Read on his upcoming tour
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Heath Franklin will return to Christchurch in June as ‘Chopper’ in his latest comedy tour on June 7. John MacDonald spoke to Heath about his career as Chopper, what it was like to meet the man himself - which turned out to be rather underwhelming, and why he walked away from a career in law to become a comedian. LISTEN ABOVE. See omnystudio.com/lis…
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John MacDonald: We're far too quick to label people as homeless in New Zealand
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Shock horror from the OCD today. Shock. Horror. It's saying that New Zealand has one of the highest rates of homelessness in the developed world. All right, that's what it's saying. But if you dig a little deeper, you find that our definition of homelessness is broader than most other countries, and I think we're a bit quick to classify someone as …
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John MacDonald: Come Monday, the bullies will be back on the job
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If you talk to anyone who has been a manager and you ask them what’s the best thing about being a manager and what’s the worst, the answer will be the same for both. The people. I know, because I’ve been a manager before, and I know exactly how brilliant it can be when things are going great with your people. But, when they’re not, it can be a nigh…
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Politics Friday: National's Vanessa Weenink and Labour’s Duncan Webb discuss bullying, charter schools, and roading infrastructure
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John MacDonald was joined by National's Vanessa Weenink and Labour’s Duncan Webb this week for Politics Friday. They discussed the bullying culture in New Zealand, is it rife in workplaces? And does it come from the top, given the environment in Parliament? Will the Government's charter schools really be the answer to our education issues? Is the S…
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John MacDonald: Should Christchurch sell its commercial assets?
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Things are really packing a sad at Christchurch City Holdings Limited - the commercial outfit that looks after the city’s assets such as the airport, Orion electricity, and the port company. There are others as well, but the big ones are a 75% stake in Christchurch Airport, 89% of the Orion electricity distribution company, and 100% ownership of th…
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John MacDonald: This could be NZ's first road of insignificance
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First we had roads of significance. Now we have roads of insignificance. And top of the list is Brougham Street, in Christchurch, with this decision by the Government to pull the plug on a $90 million upgrade of what would have to be one of the most congested and dangerous roads in the city. Because, up until yesterday, it was all-go. It was due to…
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John MacDonald: 24/7 parking charges are the future
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People are getting very excited - not in a good way - this plan in Auckland to start charging people 24-hours-a-day, seven days a week to park their cars in the CBD. Apparently, mayor Wayne Brown isn’t even happy about it. But I don’t know why. I think it’s a great idea and I think we should be doing it in Christchurch. Now, when I say I think it’s…
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John MacDonald: Our power supply isn't Third World but it is third rate
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I could be wrong. But I reckon most of us wouldn’t have done what Transpower wanted us to do to try and avoid power cuts. I could be wrong. You may have dutifully done what Transpower wanted you to do. Which was to use as little power as possible by not charging your phone and not having heaters and lights on in rooms you’re not using between 7am a…
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Politics Friday: National's Matt Doocey and Labour's Megan Wood on the power struggles and cutting support for families impacted by the mosque attack
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John MacDonald was joined by Labour’s Megan Wood and National’s Matt Doocey to break down this week in Politics Friday. This morning’s situation with the power grid sparked a lot of chatter, are we really in a third world state as David Seymour claims? Megan Woods revealed that support for the families impacted by the mosque attack will be cut this…
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John MacDonald: A sandwich for lunch is ok, if there's dinner too
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David Seymour is a muppet. I bet that’s what the Prime Minister was thinking yesterday when reporters were asking him if he agreed with Seymour’s view that sushi is “woke”. The ACT leader and the Associate Education Minister made the claim about sushi after he’d announced that the Government is revamping the school lunches programme by getting back…
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John MacDonald: I agree with the grumpy lawyer. To a point
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How about this? I found myself agreeing this morning with someone who has been described as a racist dinosaur. To a point. This lefty wokester, that some people seem to think I am, actually agrees with this Kings Council lawyer who disagrees with tikanga Māori being compulsory for students doing a law degree at university from next year. I agree wi…
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Chris Hipkins: Labour Leader discusses compulsory tikanga Maori, Carmel Sepuloni, and the Government's plans for Waikeria
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Labour Leader Chris Hipkins joined John MacDonald for their regular catchup on Canterbury Mornings. The compulsory inclusion of tikanga Māori in law studies has ignited debate. Does Hipkins feel it has a place in our legal system? Should its study be compulsory? He was quick to make an assessment of the Government’s plan for a 'mega-prison' out at …
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John MacDonald: New mega-prison will be a mega-cluster
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Don’t go thinking that I’m soft on crime or pro-criminal or anything like that. But I think this idea the Government’s got of having a mega prison as part of its investment in the Corrections Service, I think it’s an idea that sucks. What it’s doing is it’s reviving a plan to build a mega-prison in Waikato with an 810-bed extension of Waikeria Pris…
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John MacDonald: Why you should be nervous about government's water reforms
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It’s time to get nervous. Very nervous. I’m talking here about the Government’s big water announcement. It’s starting with Auckland but, right around the country, changes are on the way. Auckland is first cab off the rank because it already has an outfit separate from Auckland Council’s other operations running drinking water supply. That’s Waterca…
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Milan Borich: Lead singer of the band Pluto on the Come Together series in Christchurch
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The Come Together tribute series continues in Christchurch this week, with a group of superstar Kiwi musicians performing The Joshua Tree. Milan Borich, lead singer of the band Pluto, joined John MacDonald on Newstalk ZB Canterbury Mornings to talk about the show, his favourite U2 song of all time, and the intimidation of paying tribute to a band l…
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Politics Friday: National's Vanessa Weenink and Labour’s Duncan Webb discuss MP behaviour, education, and AUKUS
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Today on Politics Friday John MacDonald was joined by National's Vanessa Weenink and Labour’s Duncan Webb. They discussed the recent behaviour from MPs, will complaints be laid? Education is getting a facelift, is it time for a combined plan for a long-term approach to education in New Zealand to prevent our young people becoming guinea pigs? AUKUS…
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John MacDonald: Don't turn a blind eye to last night's spectacle
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One of the cliches people often use when they’re talking about politicians and the way they behave in Parliament is that they behave like “a bunch of kids”. I’ve been hearing people say that forever. And, of course, what they’re talking about is the way politicians sometimes lose their rag when they’re debating things in the House. But Green Party …
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Phil Mauger: Christchurch Mayor on the funding for the Arts Centre, Cathedral, and the East Christchurch liaison staff
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Back again for his regular interview, Christchurch’s Mayor Phil Mauger joined John MacDonald in studio on Canterbury Mornings. They dug into the funding issues plaguing Christchurch including updates on the Arts Centre and Cathedral and got the mayor’s thoughts on the Waimakariri and Selwyn Councils’ refusal to contribute to the new stadium. Plus, …
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John MacDonald: The only solution is to make people pay
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Remember it wasn’t that long ago that, if you saw someone doing some dodgy driving, you’d wonder whether they got their licence in a WeetBix box. I haven’t heard anyone use that line for a while. But what it meant, of course, was that someone’s driving was so bad it looked as if they didn’t have to do anything to get behind the wheel, to get their …
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John MacDonald: Feels like big brother is being put in his place — and it's brilliant
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It feels to me like big brother is being put in his place. And I think it’s brilliant. Well, maybe not completely in his place. But we’re getting there, with this announcement by the Government that it’s going to make it easier for us to get loans and mortgages by giving banks and finance companies more flexibility to decide how they assess whether…
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John MacDonald: Christchurch City Council's $13 million question
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You know how you hear people talk about “the million dollar question”? Today, it’s a $13 million dollar question that needs answering. It’s all to do with the streets around the new stadium in the centre of Christchurch: Te Kaha. You might remember, a while back, how the council came up with this idea of spending $34 million getting the streets rea…
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Politics Friday: National's Matt Doocey and Labour's Tracey McLellan on the funding of Christchurch's new stadium, digital currency, and the public sector cuts
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Today on Politics Friday National’s Matt Doocey and Labour’s Tracey McLellan joined John MacDonald to dive into this week’s biggest political stories. Christchurch City Council will soon be making decisions surrounding the funding of the new stadium: should the $13 million price tag be paid by ratepayers? Or should the project be put on hold until …
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John MacDonald: What actually is this waste we're cutting?
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Savage and rushed. That’s how the Public Service Association is describing the Government’s crackdown on public sector spending, after another 1,000 job cuts were announced yesterday alone. Taking the total so far to more than 3,000. I’m going to add “flying blind” to that description. Because I think these cuts are starting to look like cuts for t…
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Phil Mauger: Christchurch Mayor on the financial issues surrounding the Cathedral, Arts Centre, the A&P show, and Orana Park
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Funding issues have struck Christchurch, with the Cathedral, the Arts Centre, the A&P Show, and Orana Park all facing financial strife. Mayor Phil Mauger joined John MacDonald to dig into the issues, touching as well on the issue of begging on the streets of Christchurch and the timeline of the Council’s new CEO. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/lis…
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John MacDonald: Enter your local mall at your own risk
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Every time something terrible or tragic happens you hear people trot out a line which, I think, is totally meaningless. Maybe I’ve just become too cynical in my old age. But it was trotted out again on TV last night by a reporter talking about the appalling knife attacks at the mall in Sydney at the weekend. He was talking about an investigation th…
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John MacDonald: Should begging be banned?
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It seems to me that the rough sleepers are back on Colombo Street, outside Ballantynes. I went past this morning on the way in and there were a few of them there in the doorway. They were there last week, too. After what seems like ages. But, it doesn’t seem to be the central city where homeless people are causing the most problems at the moment. O…
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Politics Friday: National's Matt Doocey and Labour's Megan Woods on Puberty Blockers, National's tenancy laws, and mental health services
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Today on Politics Friday John MacDonald was joined by National’s Matt Doocey and Labour’s Megan Woods to discuss this week’s biggest stories. They discussed Puberty Blockers, and what the Government will do about us prescribing ten times the number they do in the UK? Will National’s tenancy laws make life worse for renters? Is it time to build more…
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John MacDonald: Good night kiwi: can TV be rescued?
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It happens all the time in New Zealand, doesn't it? Something goes pear-shaped and people start banging-on about the Government needing to step-in and do something. And the banging-on is loud in relation to the job losses confirmed by Warner Brothers Discovery and TVNZ. Newshub is closing, as proposed. And TVNZ is ditching the Sunday programme, as …
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John MacDonald: Would later starts get more kids turning up at school?
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Instead of banging-on about things like fining parents who don’t send their kids to school, the Government should be finding out what’s already working to sort out school truancy. They won’t do that, though, because some of the things I’ve been reading about would go down like a cup of the proverbial with voters. And you’ve got to keep the voters s…
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Chris Hipkins: Labour Leader on the Government's truancy policy and their 2030 targets
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Chris Hipkins says it's important to look beyond school attendance headlines to what's behind the numbers. The Government's unveiled plans to improve reporting of attendance data and bring in a traffic light system of interventions for truant students. It will also release new public health guidance about when a student is well enough to go to scho…
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Easter Sunday “Jesus Is Alive” 1 Corinthians 15:1-20 (Stephen Field)
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Jesus is alive! This is the great miracle we celebrate on Easter Sunday. Jesus is Alive! And the world will never be the same again. In today’s sermon, we reflect on what it means that we live in a world where Jesus has been raised into a new and eternal life. We celebrate how this has turned our world around: instead of living in a world where dea…
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John MacDonald: Career politicians aren't great, but neither are inexperienced ones
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Do you reckon politicians stay in the job too long? Christopher Luxon thinks so. And I agree with him. Some of them, anyway. They’re a bit like the milk that no one chucks out of the office fridge and one morning you turn-up, go to make yourself a cuppa and there are little floaty bits in your cup. That’s kind of what the Prime Minister was getting…
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John MacDonald: What should happen to Christchurch's cathedral?
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I am calling time on my support for the reinstatement of the Anglican cathedral in Cathedral Square. Because we now know that what we suspected is, in fact, true and the whole project is in financial strife and may be about to come to a complete standstill. The job is bigger than first thought and the project needs to find an extra $114 million - t…
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John MacDonald: Why all the fuss over Māori wards?
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Some things should never be put to a vote. Because, if they were, nothing would happen. Nothing would change. I’m not the only one who knows this. The Government knows it too. That’s why it’s telling local councils that, if they want to set-up a separate ward for Māori voters, they have to have a public referendum first. The councils are telling th…
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Politics Friday: National's Hamish Campbell and Labour's Duncan Webb on Maori wards, potential changes to the Marine Mammals Protection Act, history curriculum
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Today on Politics Friday John MacDonald was joined by National's Hamish Campbell and Labour's Duncan Webb to dig into the biggest topics from the week. They discussed Māori wards and the need for a referendum, is the central Government interfering in locals' business? What chance does the Christchurch City Council have of changing the Marine Mammal…
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John MacDonald: We can only learn from history if we know about it
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When it comes to history lessons, our schools are focussing too much on local and Māori history, leaving out things like national and global history. That’s what’s come through in a report out today from the Education Review Office. But, as someone who studied history at school and came away ignorant of a lot of New Zealand’s history, I don’t see w…
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Phil Mauger: Christchurch Mayor says Canterbury tourism officials are in talks to see how to make it easier to host the SailGP
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Canterbury tourism officials are in talks with the Government about how to make it easier to host SailGP races in the future. A dolphin sighting forced the cancellation of one of the two days of races at last month's Lyttleton event. Christchurch’s Mayor Phil Mauger says that changes may be needed. He told John MacDonald that that could include loo…
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John MacDonald: Why shouldn't Chch have a rainbow pedestrian crossing?
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When I was in Wellington a few weekends ago, a couple of things happened. One: I was walking down Cuba Street in the central city and it occurred to me how ironic it is that we have probably one of the most conservative governments we’ve had in New Zealand for quite some time, and it’s based in one of the country’s funkiest cities. If not, the funk…
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John MacDonald: This is where our driver education is failing
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It was a tragic Easter for some, with seven people dying on the roads - the highest Easter toll in three years, and the second highest in 14. The worst was on State Highway 8 at Pukaki. Three people died at the scene and a fourth person died in hospital. I know exactly where that crash happened because we drove that stretch of road countless times …
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John MacDonald: I could never be a teacher
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One thing I know with absolute certainty is that I could never be a schoolteacher. A few more people might be saying that today after the news that the behaviour of school kids in New Zealand has worsened over the past two years, making them among the worst-behaved in the OECD. And I hope that parents around the country are hearing this news and th…
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John MacDonald: What a bunch of pushovers we are
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. We are the People’s Republic of Pushovers. This time, we’ve been pushovers over this apparent cyber-attack on Parliament and spying on our politicians by China. It happened two-and-a-half years ago, but it was only yesterday when we heard about it. It was something of a staged announcement with the United …
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Chris Hipkins: Labour Leader on the Chinese cyberattacks and Gloriavale
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The leader of the Opposition says he finds the West Coast Christian community Gloriavale abhorrent. A new documentary series exploring the origins and controversies surrounding the secretive commune has begun airing on TVNZ. Some members have fled in recent years and several are taking Gloriavale to the Employment Court over claims of mistreatment.…
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John MacDonald: The cyclone review findings that astound me
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I am astounded by what’s come out of this review into how well-prepared Civil Defence was prior to Cyclone Gabrielle and its immediate emergency response. It wasn’t well prepared at all, it seems. And the worst-case scenario was not planned for. How many years is it since the earthquakes in Canterbury? Thirteen years since February 22nd. Longer sin…
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