Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: About Chris Brown, in reply to Alfie,
to be fair, he took his sweet time applying here.
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Access: Social media, disability…, in reply to Angela Hart,
Its primary function is to control MOH disability expenditure.
Rationers. If they were assessed on actual results achieved per dollar, they aren't even very good at that.
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Great, if depressing, analysis by Blip.
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Hard News: The Message, in reply to Sacha,
the coastal geezers of Ak 2040
get another platform to whine about their impending loss of lifestyle, courtesy Mr Orsman and whatever disaffected council member or staffer leaked draft maps to him. Intensification in the South would also be bad, they reckon, but for different reasons:
He said apartments in poorer areas of Auckland raised issues of overcrowding for large Pacific Island and Maori families and other social issues.
If we want stupidity like that in local government, we can elect it.
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Polity: A hazy, intriguing crystal ball, in reply to BenWilson,
It's Hooton's toy, not Farrar's.
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Public servants serving Nat party interests - housing roadshow cover-up.
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Yet another example of govt agencies taking the piss with the OIA. See also this series of tweets by a (familiar) requester of the same information:
https://twitter.com/GraemeEdgeler/status/669336496785063936
https://twitter.com/GraemeEdgeler/status/669337091101200384
https://twitter.com/GraemeEdgeler/status/669337547932241920
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A right-wing govt knows its on the wrong side of the issue when Greg O'Connor and the Herald editorial oppose you.
This must be the thinnest-skinned bunch of Ministers we've ever had. Can't handle anyone saying embarrassing things. Diddums.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
life's too short to waste watching crap like that
my RNZ listening between 6 and 7.30 has increased hugely this year.
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Andrew Geddis: the Police contract seems to illegally contravene the OIA (which they cannot contract themselves out of).
That it has taken so long for an academic to come forward shows how well the threat of withdrawn access has worked. The same dynamic is wrecking the accountability of our government through what is left of journalism.
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