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Benedict Yu

“Ardern said she was looking forward to working alongside students and the university to share experiences and develop ways to better serve communities and solve issues.

“I’ve found myself especially focused on the question of leadership since leaving office – and how we can better support and encourage the kind of leadership needed to tackle our many global challenges,” Ardern said in a statement.”

“From prime minister to professor: Jacinda Ardern lands new gig at Sydney University”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361051219/prime-minister-professor-jacinda-ardern-lands-new-gig-sydney-university

I just do not understand how this can happen. How can Jacinda tackle “many global challenges”? 😳 She very much worsened New Zealand challenges.
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October 27, 2026 8:01am
- All_on_Red
  
  ‘hired to give masterclasses and mentor on empathetic leadership, social cohesion and civic trust.’
  Masterclass, social cohesion, civic trust!
  She failed at all of those. Arguably she gave a ‘masterclass’ on how to ruin a Country economically and destroy the trust and social fabric of our society.
  These people have no shame, nor any sense of reality.
  
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  October 27, 2026 8:06am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    But why does it happen?The story is also covered in the Australian Financial Review. No criticism of her at all.
    
    I’ll never understand it. She has certainly fallen on her feet.
    
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    October 27, 2026 8:14am
    - All_on_Red
      
      ‘Failing up’ is a hallmark of the Left. They really look after their Comrades.
      Just look at Grant Robertson and what he now gets paid.
      Speaking of paid too much, isn’t it about time Academia reviewed these ridiculous salaries?
      Same for Local and Central Govt. Public servants being paid 10% more than the private sector shows the whole pay structure is unrealistic. Except for you Benedict. You’re probably worth every penny!
      
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      October 27, 2026 8:23am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        Benedict has scaled back to a pre retirement gig. It is as sunny and warm as you can find without leaving New Zealand. Can’t say any more. 😅
        
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        October 27, 2026 8:28am
- kowtow
  
  All she ever had from the time her caucus panicked and rolled Little was a very left wing and loyal media.
  And it continues.
  
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  October 27, 2026 8:10am
- Simon
  
  Ardern achieves NZ dream, to escape the consequences of the National party ( and by extension Labour Party)
  
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  October 27, 2026 8:14am
- Inandout
  
  BY, I sense a Jason Arday type of appointment here, in that both spoke word salads.
  
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  October 27, 2026 8:16am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    That’s the thing. How long would most of us get away with feeding clients word salad in exchange for eye watering payments?
    
    In all seriousness I would greatly value a calm conversation with the VC at Sydney University to get his perspective.
    
    The University of Sydney, along with Melbourne and the ANU in Canberra was an excellent university, certainly by Australian and New Zealand standards.
    
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    October 27, 2026 8:33am
    - Ian Boag
      
      I would greatly value a calm conversation with the VC at Sydney University to get his perspective
      
      Good stuff. The VC at U of S would definitely find a “calm conversation” with an anonymous KBer to be a worthwhile use of his time …..
      
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      October 27, 2026 8:40am
- Ian Boag
  
  Do we feel the need to review U of S appointments on a regular basis? 🙂
  
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  October 27, 2026 8:33am
Cassandra

Israelis will vote soon. While many think that getting rid of Netanyahu will lead to sweetness and light, it isn’t like that.

In an interview with The Times of Israel published in August, Gadi Eisenkot, the likely leader of the opposition and possibly the next PM, said the idea of a two-state solution after Oct 7 was “delusional”.

In 1948 David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir accepted the UN’s partition plan, grudgingly. The Arabs did not. Many Israelis believe that the West Bank is theirs – it was Judea long before it became the West Bank. Now the majority of Israelis reject the idea of two states.

If Netanyahu remains the PM then the annexation process will continue. If it’s Eisenkot then it might stop for a while.

But while predictions are the road to Hell (I thought Lula was history), my bet is that Netanyahu will remain the PM.
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October 27, 2026 8:04am
- All_on_Red
  
  Eisenkot will be even more harder than Netanyahu… He will move everybody out of Gaza.
  As for Lula, not so fast.
  ‘The president of Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court, Judge Kassio Nunes Marques, has just issued a devastating warning:
  ‘There was absolutely no rule that allowed extending the voting by two hours. It was an unprecedented order from a Supreme Court magistrate allied with Lula, which ended up benefiting his regions.
  The preliminary decision, issued after the polls closed, generated serious difficulties in the electoral process. “There were no regulations that authorized any extension,” Nunes Marques stated.’
  
  The Judge (Lulas stooge) had no authority to extend it. Some interesting Vote data in the link
  https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/10/26/bolsonaro-brasils-superior-electoral-court-throw-not-so-fast-flag-at-lula-victory-lap-n3820314
  
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  October 27, 2026 8:12am
Gravelroad

Yesterday, Master 12, who has had (AFAIK) little or no interest in politics so far, announced that he “hated Luxon”.
Why?
School friend told him that mean Mr Luxon is going to “ban YouTube”.
How does friend know this?
Parents told him.
Who are friend’s parents going to vote for?
Labour.
And that’s how it starts.
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October 27, 2026 8:13am
- All_on_Red
  
  The irony is that if any Political party was going to restrict access to and censor platforms like YouTube, it is the Labour Party (looking at Ardern above especially)
  I’m starting to think Labour supporters are the Low IQ cohort in our society.
  
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  October 27, 2026 8:42am
artemisia

There is a lot in the media about insufficient health resourcing. ‘Twas ever thus of course. A coalition of unions has released a report proposing a serious problem – the majority of increase in taxpayer funding is going to private providers. Because, we can assume, they have the resources to umm treat patients. Isn’t that a good thing?

Well no, if that taxpayer funding is actually being used for private sector pocket lining. That is serious and the Public Futures Aotearoa coalition will for sure be along shortly with evidence rather than “a real concern”. Waiting lists are watching with rather considerable personal interest.

“There is a real concern that public health dollars are now being used to service financial obligations, such as debt repayments, investor yields, corporate acquisitions and portfolio growth,” it said.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/2174189/private-sector-gets-80-percent-of-increase-in-public-health-funding-unions-report-finds
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October 27, 2026 8:13am
cmm (semi-retired edition)

Mallard is a really nasty bit of work.

His commentary on the election registration cut-off is that it is Trumpian “voter suppression”.

Except this is not:
a) Trumptian
b) voter suppression.

Trump’s “voter suppression” is not voter suppression at all. It seems to have been limited to preventing non-voters from voting.

The NZ “voter suppression” does not prevent legal voters from voting either. All it does is requires they register before voting starts. Hardly a barrier to entry.

But none of that stops the odious (inaudible) from being an (inaudible). Don’t let a pesky fact of two stand in the way of a good insult.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361051140/former-speaker-alleges-trump-style-voter-suppression-nz
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