Yesterday, the New Zealand Labour Party announced an "election bribe" for 461,000 New Zealanders by saying they would no longer pay interest on student loans from April next year. (See: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10337799)
It does sound like a great idea, especially to encourage graduates to stay in New Zealand. I'm a university graduate who has stayed in NZ to work. However, since I left university about 6 years ago my student loan has not decreased at all - I am barely making enough to pay off the interest. Will they credit all that interest back to me? I doubt it!
Anyway, my $32,000 student loan will still take years and years to pay off, so it's not going to make me change me vote to Labour!
By the way, I bet National are kicking themselves that they didn't think off it first!
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Humans back into space
After two and a half years the Space Shuttle is finally back into space, when the Discovery lifted off this morning (See: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/07/26/space.shuttle/index.html)
It is great to have humans back into space again, but being a Star Trek fan I think this is all a bit primative! They've got a long way to go until humans are sent to Mars (http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/episodes/VOY/detail/108170.html) or till the first warp ship is built! (http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/episodes/MOV/detail/88.html)
It is great to have humans back into space again, but being a Star Trek fan I think this is all a bit primative! They've got a long way to go until humans are sent to Mars (http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/episodes/VOY/detail/108170.html) or till the first warp ship is built! (http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/episodes/MOV/detail/88.html)
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