Thursday, December 2, 2010

Last Rites (for this year anyway)

Well, that's that for this year - bombed the course, but i hope i can get back next year; all depends on StudyLink - the Graduate Exporting Scheme (aka the Student Loan Scheme) is not, it seems, adequately discouraging people from educating themselves & staying here to spread it around a bit.

Just chatting to the bloke on the computer alongside of me.. explained the Graduate Exporting Scheme to him, along with aspects of our Electoral System - i don't know anyone with half a gram of intelligence/common sense who wants to get rid of MMP:  it's the only thing that stands between us & the old-style electoral dictatorship (effectively a one-party state, since the Opposition was absolutely powerless), of which the late (&, to my mind, unlamented) Robert Muldoon was a prime example: his Cabinet was for the most part frightened of him, he was afraid of no-one, & in those days, if you controlled Cabinet, you effectively ran the country; & he did, his way, & brooked no opposition, to the point where, when Marilyn Waring threatened his one-vote majority in the House by crossing the floor on the Anti-Nuclear issue, he spat the dummy & called a snap election - & lost!!


As it turned out, we got tossed out of the frying pan into the fire - we got Rogernomics, but that's another story..


This stuff really belongs in my blog 'JaneMareesFWIW' but it's in here anyway..


Toodle-oo for the year.  If i get back next year, i'll start another blog on Project Management, & re-enter this one in Semester Two, when i hope to repeat this paper.


Bye 4 Now
Jane-Maree

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1 comment:

  1. well, now i'm back - but behind again {sigh}..

    2 tight deadlines but maybe it'll be ok anyway;
    we'll see..

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