The National leader has made some tough calls to help get more women into parliament. But when men keep getting selected for winnable seats, he can only do so much.
This is called 'personal & household budgeting', don't glorify it with the high-falutin' title 'financial literacy', which is an entirely different subject.
The entire political economy of the last 100 years is predicated on a deliberate public misconception that the financial affairs of nation-states are somehow cognate with household budgeting. They are not, and this misnomer will only further hinder the necessary disambiguation.
Luxon is engaged in a purge of the 'old-guard' of the National Party worthy of Stalin himself. He is pursuing a path determined to rid the caucus of 'small-c-conservatives' who (notwithstanding I believe they are mistaken as to process) actually do have the interests of ordinary(ish) New Zealanders at-heart. Luxon takes his briefing from the corporate-dominated Neolib think-tanks (like Liz Truss did in the UK and we all know how that ended), not his party conference or the constituency parties. The constituency party is, as demonstrated by their stated reluctance to select women for constituency candidacy, very much in the 'small-c' mindset of social conservatism, which is largely at odds with the corporatism and internationalism of the Neolib Right.
I would even go so far as to say that Luxon's favouring of women on the National List probably has more to do with the perception of Old White Corporate males that women, especially those that are new to office, are more 'malleable' to a male leader than men, rather than any attempt to "redress the gender balance" of the National party in parliament.
Financial Literacy:
This is called 'personal & household budgeting', don't glorify it with the high-falutin' title 'financial literacy', which is an entirely different subject.
The entire political economy of the last 100 years is predicated on a deliberate public misconception that the financial affairs of nation-states are somehow cognate with household budgeting. They are not, and this misnomer will only further hinder the necessary disambiguation.
Luxon is engaged in a purge of the 'old-guard' of the National Party worthy of Stalin himself. He is pursuing a path determined to rid the caucus of 'small-c-conservatives' who (notwithstanding I believe they are mistaken as to process) actually do have the interests of ordinary(ish) New Zealanders at-heart. Luxon takes his briefing from the corporate-dominated Neolib think-tanks (like Liz Truss did in the UK and we all know how that ended), not his party conference or the constituency parties. The constituency party is, as demonstrated by their stated reluctance to select women for constituency candidacy, very much in the 'small-c' mindset of social conservatism, which is largely at odds with the corporatism and internationalism of the Neolib Right.
I would even go so far as to say that Luxon's favouring of women on the National List probably has more to do with the perception of Old White Corporate males that women, especially those that are new to office, are more 'malleable' to a male leader than men, rather than any attempt to "redress the gender balance" of the National party in parliament.