Hard News: UPDATED: Media Take: Election Songs
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
(look you can see the Greens in there)
Really? A wheelbarrow of dirt, a log, a bucket of something being carried on someone's head, a cartload of grass (not even bothering to refine it into milk any more? Shipped all the cows overseas, too?)... I see a lot of extractive industries using the Stumbo bridge to ship NZ's natural resources overseas. And one person with a suitcase and another with a sack - recent graduates disappearing overseas? (hmmm.... sounds familiar.... ). And green fish looking on in surprise? Dismay?
Back to the drawing board.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Please correct me if you have seen such fairness.
No, as wonderful as the internet is, I think those of you actually in NZ are better placed to be the judge of that. I won't be back for another few months, so my view of what is happening is still rather limited.
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Pharmachick, in reply to
yes Greg, my definition of a "foreign millionaire" is "born overseas". As I stated, clearly, in my post - we also have enough problems with out homegrown millionaires and influence peddlers.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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Nah that's the North and South Islands yer looking at...
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nzlemming, in reply to
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Nah that’s the North and South Islands yer looking at
The Chch rebuild exodus.
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chris, in reply to
I hadn't watched any of the new series, the streaming experience back on TV3 was incredibly frustrating and in the end I just had to give it a miss. Media Take on the other hand streams like a baby. The theme tune is your best yet, no frills, fat as the kauri trunk. The colour scheme, more reminiscent of what you've got going on here, is perfect. Toi is great, you are great, your greetings were a laugh and the overall energy is palpable. Looking forward to catching up on the rest.
Mate atu tētē kura, whakaeke mai he tētē kura
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Kia ora!
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I do wonder if we could enroll young people better if you could sign them up once they turned 17, so you could enroll people as part of year 13 at high school - say July or August.
And then put them on a holding roll until they turned 18. Even if they moved in between you're likely to have their parents address for many of them.
It does seem strange that so much work goes into getting people onto the roll, when some months or a year earlier we had them all sitting in a room twiddling their thumbs, looking forward to the day when they could buy alcohol legally (and vote).
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Christopher Nimmo, in reply to
I thought we did have such a provisional roll? I certainly remember being on it two elections ago!
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More useful than a provisional roll, just let people vote at 16. Voting's a habit and people are more deeply tied into communities when 16-18, at school & home, than when living in flats often in different cities.
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No, as wonderful as the internet is, I think those of you actually in NZ are better placed to be the judge of that.
Any takers on that? I still can't find any evidence of the Commission rattling any cages on the Right. Could it be they are clean as the proverbial whistle or is their boss glowering in their direction?.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Any takers on that? I still can’t find any evidence of the Commission rattling any cages on the Right. Could it be they are clean as the proverbial whistle or is their boss glowering in their direction?.
Part of it may be that there are hardly any right-wing musicians and artists and those who are aren't currently movement to anger.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Part of it may be that there are hardly any right-wing musicians and artists and those who are aren't currently movement to anger.
Gray Bartlett's one of the very few overt ones, and he goes way back to "The Ballad of Robbie Muldoon".
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nzlemming, in reply to
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Part of it may be that there are hardly any right-wing musicians and artists and those who are aren’t currently movement to anger.
I'm not sure if Ebony were left or right, but "Big Norm" was hardly complimentary to Norman Kirk PM (even if he did wish them luck).
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Turns out they were left(ish) and just capitalising on circumstances.
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Sacha, in reply to
He only reigns until his foes stop fumbling
nice turn of phrase. onya
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I’m not sure if Ebony were left or right, but “Big Norm” was hardly complimentary to Norman Kirk PM (even if he did wish them luck).
My memory is that the song was very much seen as affectionate.
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nzlemming, in reply to
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My memory is that the song was very much seen as affectionate.
Yeah, my memory was based on the words rather than the reaction.
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I was really impressed with Laura's strategic grasp of what was needed. Eyes wide open. Am donating to RockEnrol as a result.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Part of it may be that there are hardly any right-wing musicians and artists and those who are aren’t currently movement to anger.
Gray Bartlett’s one of the very few overt ones, and he goes way back to “The Ballad of Robbie Muldoon”.
Suzanne Prentice dedicated I Wish I Was Waltzing With You to Muldoon when performing at an event during National's losing 1984 campaign, but I doubt if it was written with him in mind.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
Part of it may be that there are hardly any right-wing musicians and artists and those who are aren’t currently movement to anger.
And an even bigger part of it is the Electoral Commission is there not to be "fair" but to apply the law, even if it's a bit of a flustercluck, in the world as it is. Any one seriously want to suggest there would be a different reaction if the track was called Silent T rather than Planet Key? Seriously?
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Sacha, in reply to
as I said, the right doesn't need to resort to singing about change. They has resources and connections for that.
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Max Call, in reply to
I do wonder if we could enroll young people better if you could sign them up once they turned 17, so you could enroll people as part of year 13 at high school - say July or August.
And then put them on a holding roll until they turned 18. Even if they moved in between you're likely to have their parents address for many of them.
It does seem strange that so much work goes into getting people onto the roll, when some months or a year earlier we had them all sitting in a room twiddling their thumbs, looking forward to the day when they could buy alcohol legally (and vote)
they do.
We had someone come and get all the Year 13s who were 18 or who would be 18 by the election to fill in a form. -
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You have to be a bit careful about giving primacy to free speech rights in the context of the statutory regulation of elections.
This was one of the issues in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the US case that involved a hit job documentary about Hillary Clinton that a private group wanted to screen just before the Democratic primary.
I know it's not a major issue in New Zealand but in other places people work hard to get around the laws designed to ensure elections are fairly contested.
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Ah, the power of propaganda spread via a complicit media addicted to certain news sources.
Peter Fowler is to polite to say it, but you’ve all been played by Slater/Farrar/Hooton/Williams – BlogWatch: Anatomy of misinformation.
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