Posts by Sacha
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The NZ broadcasters need to pursue foreign producers over the 'exclusive' rights they were misleadingly sold, rather than play Canute with NZ customers.
Genuine accessibility should be a regulated bottom line for anything broadcast in New Zealand, whatever the medium. I was glad to see the Green party promoting a closed captioning policy during the last general election, fronted by deaf MP Mojo Mathers. It's a start.
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Access: Here's to them, in reply to ,
Yes. Can't imagine in any detail the effect it would have had on my beliefs about the world if my school had locked a classmate in a cage and treated that as OK.
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Access: Here's to them, in reply to TracyMac,
Do you think the NDIS programme has had an impact on the broader consciousness of Australians about disability?
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Access: Here's to them, in reply to TracyMac,
this is most likely a systemic failure of ACT special needs services (in great part) due to federal funding cuts rather than a sadistic teacher or a deliberately negligent institution or programme.
People will feel outraged at the results whether or not we take the causes into consideration. Simply not OK.
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Up Front: Mind Your Language, in reply to Emma Hart,
That's like the way they were allowed to say "wanker" on Buffy because it was America and nobody knew what it meant.
And apparently NZ sold them the beer brand. I'm almost disappointed.
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Up Front: Mind Your Language, in reply to Ray Gilbert,
Flip you melon farmer
yuss
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I/S blogs about an influential ruling on river management.
Fish and Game environmental manager Corina Jordan said Judge Thompson of the Environmental Court had rejected the Council's approach to manage the overall quality of water by allowing a decline in some areas to be balanced out by an improvement in others.
Why is this significant? Because National's new National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management - the one that sets a "bottom line" of rivers that will make you sick - seems to advocate exactly that approach ..
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Great post, thanks. Two relevant news stories today:
1) Farmer upset about nutrient loading requirements dumps truck of manure outside regional council.
Council boss explains the situation (audio, 3 mins).
2) Farming advocate clutches at every straw.
Federated Farmers President William Rolleston argued the idea of imposing a moratorium on dairy farm conversions was too simplistic and other ways of reducing the environmental impact of farming needed to be considered first.
He said science and technology would play a part in that.
"[It] will help us in terms of effective riparian planting, putting in more effective cultivators to be drought resistant and reduce the amount of nitrogen that's flowing past the root zone and also to build a community and allow the community to have a discussion and allow communication.
"But we need to be open to a whole variety of approaches, be that organics, conventional or using biotechnology, like genetic modification."
Yep let's delay action as long as possible while we 'build a community'. Clown.
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Speaker: So NZ First gets another list…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Are you seriously suggesting that it is possible that, if Winston was to pen a resignation letter to the Speaker in the week after Easter, the Speaker might either decline to accept it, or refer the question of whether he should accept it to the Privileges Committee?
Given Carter's abysmal track record in the role, he would ask the National party what they want him to do.
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Speaker: Scoop.co.nz's Operation…, in reply to Alastair Thompson,
this full-time job is cramping my style. :)
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