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Speaker 1: In a move you could have seen coming from the

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Speaker 1: moment it was first announced, really, or if you couldn't

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Speaker 1: see it coming, you were hoping it would come. Auckland

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Speaker 1: University has decided it's why Papa Tamatarrah course will now

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Speaker 1: be optional instead of compulsory. So for a generation who've

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Speaker 1: been appallingly let down over the COVID period by the

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Speaker 1: government and education decisions, the Auckland University desire to force

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Speaker 1: you into MARI courses seem not just ill advised but cruel.

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Speaker 1: Kids of the past half dozen years have been soaked

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Speaker 1: to the point of drowning in MARI issues and doctrine

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Speaker 1: in their schooling and they are, I can tell you

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Speaker 1: sick of it. The Labour Government's obsession with race has

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Speaker 1: had the opposite effect intended. It didn't cajole and encourage,

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Speaker 1: It rammed, enforced and overwhelmed us with condescending, over lord

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Speaker 1: type instruction. University is not about being told what to learn.

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Speaker 1: It was supposed to be the opposite, and from our

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Speaker 1: personal experience this year, it appeared to us that the

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Speaker 1: course was not even well run. It was ill conceived,

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Speaker 1: shonckly run by people barely qualified to deliver a curriculum

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Speaker 1: that seemed largely made up with no real focus or discipline.

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Speaker 1: Students hated it. They resented it. They were dragged, kicking

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Speaker 1: and screaming through it. Not just that, but to add

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Speaker 1: insult to injury, you had to pay for it. They

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Speaker 1: forced you into it, then sent you a bill. As

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Speaker 1: in all these areas of race, the trick has always

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Speaker 1: been that if you seek it, if you want it,

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Speaker 1: if you desire it, whether broader study or specific language skills,

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Speaker 1: it's freely available. Fill your boots. But the determination to

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Speaker 1: square Peggott only ever led to pushback and resemble. The

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Speaker 1: last thing I would have thought universities wanted to do

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Speaker 1: was put people off study. Once again, from personal experience,

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Speaker 1: we know people who not only avoided Auckland University but

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Speaker 1: in fact ended up studying offshore. And none of this

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Speaker 1: is a desirable outcome for the country upside. When asked

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Speaker 1: by the university, the feedback was as you would have expected,

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Speaker 1: and to their credit, I guess they've at least read

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Speaker 1: the room and backed off. But not before another year,

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Speaker 1: for thousands had been lost in a whirlpool of woke

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Speaker 1: enforced nonsense that never had to be for more from

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