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Muriel Newman

Act as we say not as we do - an inconvenient truth

Posted by: Cynic on 11, Jun, 2010

Tagged in: secondary schools , school choice , Muriel Newman , Inter Party Working Group , Heather Roy , education politics , ACT

Dr Muriel Newman founding member of the ACT party and one time deputy leader is concerned about the brainwashing of kids in New Zealand schools.

She presented a petition to the Education and Science Select Committee seeking "that New Zealand school children be protected from political indoctrination".

However to Muriel's distress the petition didn't go any further than the select committee recommending "that the House take note of its report".

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