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John MacDonald: The stadium train is an excellent idea - let's make the most of it

NewstalkZB 11 Aug 2025
TOPIC 1 EDITORIAL. STADIUM TRAIN. I love this plan for an express passenger train to get people into Christchurch for events at the new One New Zealand Stadium, which is due to open in April next year ... It would be about 25 minutes from Rangiora ... .
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John MacDonald: All aboard the speed hump bandwagon

NewstalkZB 08 Aug 2025
You can tell council elections are coming up, because that’s the only reason the Christchurch City Council is going to start using high friction road surfaces at pedestrian crossings, instead of speed humps.     ...    ...   ...   ... .
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John MacDonald: The pawns in Chris Bishop's privatised RUC regime

NewstalkZB 07 Aug 2025
When I heard Transport Minister Chris Bishop talking about the Government’s changes to the road user charges system, I had a bit of a Max Bradford moment.   ...   ...  . He said. “From a cash flow point of view, it’ll help people ...   ...   ... .
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John MacDonald: I asked an AI bot how it felt about marking exams

NewstalkZB 06 Aug 2025
With the Government wanting artificial intelligence to be used to mark high school exams, I asked a ChatGPT bot how it felt about that.   . And here’s what it said ...   ... And it could apply marking schedules with perfect consistency.   ... .
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John MacDonald: I like the NCEA changes, but...

NewstalkZB 05 Aug 2025
Yesterday, when the Government announced that it was getting rid of NCEA, my immediate reaction was that it was a mistake.  . That we would have been much better sticking with the system we’ve got and improving it.   ...    ...   ... .
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John MacDonald: Should the Christchurch mayor use personal funds for public projects?

NewstalkZB 04 Aug 2025
Just because someone can afford to do something, it doesn’t always mean they should do it.  ... According to council data, 648 cyclists use it every week day. Which doesn’t sound under-utilised to me.  ... I think it’s very sneaky.  ...   ... .
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John MacDonald: Should NCEA cater more to students that aren't going to university?

NewstalkZB 01 Aug 2025
It must be tricky being at school and feeling like you’re not doing anything to prepare you for what you actually want to do when you leave.  ... The report was prepared for Education Minister Erica Stanford who is promising some big changes. .
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John MacDonald: Gang numbers are up - so what next?

NewstalkZB 30 Jul 2025
The gangs were right, the Government was wrong.  . That’s one way to interpret the news that, for the first time, the number of people on the national gang list is higher than 10,000.  . The gangs were right ...   ...   ...   ...   ...   ... .
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John MacDonald: Now is not the time for 80% pay increases

NewstalkZB 29 Jul 2025
I understand what the Prime Minister is saying about these pay increases for board members at Crown agencies, such as Health NZ and Kāinga Ora, but I’m not buying it.   . The top payment was $90,000. It’s now $160,000.   ...   ...   ... .
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John MacDonald: Under-staffed departments in overrun hospitals

NewstalkZB 28 Jul 2025
The news today that half of the departments at Christchurch Hospital are operating below full staffing levels doesn’t surprise me. In some departments, they are less than 80 percent of what they should be ...     ... Health NZ says it gets that ... .
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John MacDonald: Isn't enrolling on election day better than not voting at all?

NewstalkZB 25 Jul 2025
Election Day is like Christmas Day, with some of us not getting ourselves organised until the very last minute - even though we’ve known for ages that it’s happening.  . Christmas day is never sprung on us ...   ...   ... Which I think is a mistake.
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John MacDonald: What do sport gender guidelines have to do with the price of butter?

NewstalkZB 24 Jul 2025
There will be no shortage of people today thinking that it's a brilliant move by the Government to ditch official guidelines for including transgender people in community sport and leaving it to the sporting organisations themselves to handle it ... .
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John MacDonald: Is climate change a major issue in Christchurch?

NewstalkZB 23 Jul 2025
Phil Mauger is back on board the climate change bandwagon today – just like he was before the last election.  . I remember asking him three years ago what he thought the most pressing issue facing Christchurch was and he said climate change ... .
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John MacDonald: Philanthropic funding for new medical school? Pfft

NewstalkZB 22 Jul 2025
Let's start with the positives in the news that the Government is pressing ahead with a new medical school at Waikato University.  . 120 new med students every year. You can’t argue with that.  . But that’s about it for me.    ...   ... .
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John MacDonald: Pine re-planter says some will think it's madness. He's right

NewstalkZB 21 Jul 2025
The owner of the adventure park land, John McVicar - who re-planted pines there after the first fire - knows some people will think it’s madness planting them again But he says arson is the problem - not the highly-flammable trees themselves. .

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