Posts by Sacha
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the rankings themselves do not seem closely tied to conventional notions about portfolio seniority
Oh I don't know. Disability is in the demoted unranked zone at 17. Behind animal rights. Nothing new there.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Alfie,
It's just part of the PR setup for this week's release of the report, to distance the PM. Continues the handy fiction of Slater as an aggrieved victim compared with that scurrilous Hager character profiting from stolen emails, I tells you. Memes need watering.
Also introduces the handy focus-group-tested phrase "election issue" which is aligned with "public interest". These will be useful for the other inquiry into leaking of intel for political purposes.
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The report is being redacted and released in the face of greater than expected interest, I heard the department's boss say on the radio. Expected it would take a couple of weeks.
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Democracy is not mob rule, hence a place for leadership.
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Great Herald interview with Randa, who's playing tomorrow in Ak and on 5 Dec inWelli.
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Legal Beagle: Gerry Brownlee is…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
go through security to the Koru lounge
except in Welli that's reversed
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Other groups of disabled people such as those with impaired thinking also may have a high ongoing need for care services. You appear to be assuming that high need means only physical impairment, that's all.
One of the things preventing significant progress in disability politics is our fragmentation, mainly caused by the siloed medicalisation of services and support organisations. As a community we need to think broader and build alliances to get the changes we so desperately want.
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Grant McDougall,
Universal Basic Income
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Paul Williams,
it troubles me that so many people in Labour are still talking about Labour
Heard a bit of Robertson I think it was on RNZ this morning, promising to help stop that habit if it continues.
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Andrew Little talking about what he proposes, to Kathryn Ryan this morning (30 mins, audio options)
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