Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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So I'm the only person who thinks the present flag looks awesome?
Really well balanced - and the perfect flag for our immigrant nation
And with the blue representing our place in the Pacific Ocean and our affinity with Pacific neighbours like the Cook Islands and Fiji, who also have blue backgrounds on their flags;
The stars representing our place in the world, and the constellation that guided skilled Polynesian navigators to settle here as Tangata Whenua;
And the Union Jack representing the history of the other major immigrant people here, with whom a lasting Treaty was entered into by the Tangata Whenua; the flag, combining representations of how the two people who combined to form this country came here - the Maori under the stars, and British under the Union Flag representing the fusion of two cultures...
Come on, at least it's better than three stripes/bands - through the French at least don't seem to mind (Q: Who knew that the blue, white and red bands on the tricoleur aren't the same width?)
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And while we're discussing shows people might have missed in the listings, The Unauthorised History of New Zealand is returning.
Starting Monday-week (Feb 12th) on TV One at 10:15 (i.e. opposite the end of Heroes).
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I know it was mentioned somewhere...
Not Listener, DomPost or Herald, maybe TV Guide (couldn't find it when I looked last night, however).
And 'though I know it within the two hours you want (I'd say we, but I don't get C4 so don't count) it'd be nice if they played the Friday show at 10pm Monday.
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Yeah, you missed something.
I'd noticed they were going to, made a mental note to mention it here, and then forgot; not being able to get C4 probably didn't help. That said, it was in the TV listings, shouldn't that be enough :-)
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It took a while, but how great is it that we're getting a whole lot of NZ television on DVD?
Maybe it started to pick up with bro'Town (I suspect Back of the Y - the Two DVDs was first), but just about everything seems to be coming out on dvd now - both Insiders' Guide__s, __Outrageous Fortune, family TV like Maddigan's Quest (with special features!), and The Lost Children (I wonder if the Maaori spoken now has a subtitle option?), even Let's Get Inventin'.
Doco's like Simon Dallow's schedule-challenged What Lies Beneath?, Jim Hickey's A Flying Visit, The New Zealand Wars (should watch that at some stage) and a whole bunch of other rather random stuff too, even a fledgling TV3's The Billy T. James Show!
If only they could clean up stuff from the archive ... maybe they will to ready some for digital TV?
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So, on at the same time as, and rather near this then.
Will you be disappointed if people go from one to the other, and arrive late to blend?
[or should I just make my mind up which to attend?]
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Steamboat Willie wasn't the first Mickey Mouse cartoon.
The first Mickey short was six month's earlier - Plane Crazy.
Steamboat Willie was the first major cartoon with synchronised sound, but the second of Mickey's shorts (and the third of Mickey's shorts to be produced).
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In terms of average incomes, I think it is the percentages that are important.
It's possible for someone catching up to to see a gap grow in actual terms (i.e. income for one group could be rising faster - a higher %age increase, but be $300 further away).
However, contrasting the position of Maori with the 'average' as the article and statistics do is a little dishonest. The gap in NZ is not between Maori and the average but between Maori and non-Maori. Raise the average income of Maori to the present average income and there'd still be a gap between Maori and non-Maori.
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But seriously Graeme, the idea of responding to problems by pushing the event into being some sort of flag day is silly.
Not ideal, but far better than the postulated alternatives.
The suggestion isn't about recapturing the spirit of the BDO, it's about preventing the misuse of the Australian flag to abuse people of colour. Banning the flag, or discouraging attendees from bringing flags on the day before Australia Day won't recapture the spirit of the BDO either.
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I was quite a fan of DPF's plan for reasonable Australians to take back the flag.
Perhaps the drug dogs are just a way for thousands of music fans to have their music festival back too - it's the Big Day Out, not J-Day :-)