Blog Bits
- Fiscally Conservative Kiwi at Gotcha fisks The Standard for their response to my linking the rise in youth unemployment to the abolishment of youth rates.
- Chris Hipkins discovers www.data.govt.nz. I agree it is an excellent resource – Nathan Guy launched it around a week ago. I am already a frequent user.
- Rob Salmond and Lord Monckton exchange climate change barbs.
- Carmel Sepuloni blogs at Red Alert over the cutting of funding to the Manukau Family Literacy Programme. I think this is a much more worthwhile cause to champion that ACE type silk scarf dying courses.
- Paul at the Fundy Post lambasts auckland University Arts Faculty for taking no action over the plagiarism of Professor witi ihimaera. Paul says their actions make him ashamed to be a member of the University – he is a PhD candidate.
- Rochelle Rees at The Standard has a very good post on the Foreshroe and Seabed act.
- Crusader Rabbit points out that there were around eight times as many anti-Jewish incidents recorded by the FBI in 2007, as there were anti-Islamic incidents – 969 to 115.