Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences
Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences
www.science.org
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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/21635645
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I hate national. I tried to cope saying it wouldn't be that bad but holy shit these guys suck. Their entire term has just been the dumbest policy decision after dumbest policy decision.
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But look on the bright side. At least we won't know how much smoking uptake has increased.
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Rip, I thought NZ was more based than this.
We had quite the government change about a year ago.
I note the article describes the government as "centre-right". This is a common description for the party that the prime minister is from, but the government is made up of three parties. That centre-(edit:
left) right party, a populist party, and a much-further-right party.I think in the media we see parties described in a way that clashes with historic understandings of where the left, centre & right are purely because the right has been driven so much further to the extremes than 50+ years ago.
I would describe the parties like this:
I'm sure some would argue Green & TPM are Far-Left, but neither are really calling for the over throw of the capitalist state or anything so I just don't really see it, i'd put Act at Far-Right because they essentially want to dissolve the power of the state entirely outside of its role in policing internally & externally.