Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The Police Ten 7 State, in reply to
Police media release, polished to a fine glow. Includes:
"Police will also be updating the research agreement, including removing any language that may be interpreted as restricting the independence of academic research.
“I want to stress that this was neither the intent nor purpose of the agreement."
Someone really needs to learn how to write contracts then.
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Polity: Hosking’s right about jobs, in reply to
they've invited him to dinner
another spectacular misjudgement.
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Jobs are certainly a biggie. Madame Boag got her knickers in a twist only yesterday on Q&A over an opinion poll verifying the public's concerns thusly do not match govt priorities. #fleg
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Polity: Hosking’s right about jobs, in reply to
many sane and promising policy statements
Research has shown that people do not vote based on policy.
Influencing social discourse is crucial. Some parties have been better at it than others. That has to change before people will vote differently.
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Polity: Hosking’s right about jobs, in reply to
are people in NZ under the delusion that the Nats did well with the GFC?
given the failure of political communication to the contrary (despite ample evidence), yes
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Hard News: Friday Music: Back to a…, in reply to
I'm pretty sure they won't be wanting the SJ Fits supporting them again - that bill turned out to be totally the wrong way round.
one of the most impressive things I witnessed, that.
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NZ's reputation dented overseas again.
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Hard News: The Message, in reply to
whatever disaffected council member or staffer leaked draft maps
Ben Ross writes about what that action means. Like him, I'm more likely to believe it's one of the councillors. Previous utterances should narrow the pool of those willing to flout their solemn obligations over this particular topic.
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Hard News: The Message, in reply to
and check the sense of entitlement in this fragment (though being Orsman there's no guarantee of accuracy):
Auckland 2040 had agreed to relax density controls
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Access: Social media, disability…, in reply to
Asking those questions implies that quality matters for disabled people, and that we deserve effective and efficient service. An OIA to the Misery would probably tell us what we already know on that score.
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