Richard Chambers

China has been engaged in the largest peacetime build-up, military build-up in history, and they're not having any threats on their borders.

Well, schools, I think, are very conscious about affordability and they work hard to keep their fee increases as low as possible.

But they're not immune to the same inflationary pressures everyone in New Zealand is experiencing.

And with little in the way of government support, they don't have much choice to pass some of those costs on to families.

Well, we still see pretty strong demand across our schools.

I mean, they hover around 4% of the population go to independent schools.

It's a bit higher in Auckland at around 6%.

And there was about a 2% growth across our member schools last year.

So there is still high demand.

I mean, certainly, you know, parents are choosing independent schools for a wide range of reasons, and high academic outcomes might be one of those, but also there's a whole other range of reasons as well.

So,

Four tries to Josh Morby and they win 50 points to 17.

Every team that's home ground is normally the MCG, including the one that I went to yesterday with my side, Richmond, has to play a number of games at Marvel Stadium.

It was part of the deal when they built the thing with the roof on down the end of town that no one likes.

No, so I left at half time.

It was a sad day.

It was worse for the Liberal Party than the worst nightmare.

And they are just in all sorts.

Let's deal with the numbers and then I'll quickly do the optics.

So the Liberal Party, when this seat went to the federal election in 2022, so that's not that long ago, the primary vote of Susan Lee was 43.4%.