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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Finger-wagging won't get more kids going to school
Description: I can’t find an exact figure but from what I have seen online, I’m pretty confident in saying that there are hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid fines in New Zealand, and that figure is about to rise even further.  Because the Government is dreaming if it thinks people fined for not sending their kids to school are going to suddenly start sending their kids to school, and that they're even going to bother paying the fines.  They won’t. They’ll just ignore them. They won’t pay up.  Because if th...