The 2005 New Zealand Mindset List

Most students starting university in 2005 were born in 1986. For these students:

--New Zealanders have always paid GST.

--Mt Egmont has always been Mt Taranaki too.

--School Certificate has always been on the way out.

--The Queen has always had egg on her coat.

--The Government's attendance of Waitangi Day celebrations at Waitangi has always been controversial.

--New Zealand yachts have always lost major races due to broken masts.

--The United States has always been fighting terrorists.

--MMP has always been the preferred method for national elections.

--These students have never seen the Pope kiss New Zealand soil.

--Telecommunication companies have always struggled to figure out how to manage computer access on local lines.

--These students have never seen Halley's Comet.

--New Zealand has always had gambling casinos.

--These students have always gone to schools governed by a local board of trustees.

--Chernobyl has always been a nuclear disaster.

--Homosexual sex has always been legal in New Zealand.

--Tenzing Norgay has always been dead.

--France has always been apologetic about blowing up the Rainbow Warrior.

--The Challenger Seven have always been dead astronauts.

--AIDS has always been present in New Zealand.

--Sarah Ferguson "Fergie" has always been married or divorced.

--The Mikhail Lermontov has always been a sunk Soviet cruise ship.

--New Zealand railways have always been in financial crisis.

--New Zealanders have always been able to get their warrant of fitness from local garages.

--New Zealand has always had more than 3.3 million people.

--Small domestic manufacturing industries have always been in decline.

--In New Zealand, George Nepia (legendary rugby fullback), Eric Hiscock (renowned New Zealand yachtsman), Lili Kraus (noted Mozart pianist), Viscountess Cobham (popular wife of a Governor General) and Leonard Trent (Victoria Cross airman) have always been dead.

--Internationally, James Cagney, Desi Arnaz, Benny Goodman, Cary Grant, Ron Hubbard, Harold Macmillan, Ricky Nelson and Wallis Simpson have always been dead.

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