Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Snowden and New Zealand, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
the National Union of Miners who brought down the UK government in 1974
resulting in Thatcher?
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OnPoint: Budget 2014: Yeah okay., in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Funny what turns up
totally
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OnPoint: Budget 2014: Yeah okay., in reply to Tom Semmens,
Nothing for the poor. Not a cent for the bottom.
Please be more specific. Voters need to hear it.
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OnPoint: Budget 2014: Yeah okay., in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
They did some helpful summaries in previous Budgets. Takes ages to riffle through the various docs otherwise.
Note that if you highlight text in a comment before you click on Reply it automagically gets pasted in as an indented quote. Handy.
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Hard News: Snowden and New Zealand, in reply to TracyMac,
too bad if something goes tits-up there while I'm on call
and you can bet it's exactly the sort of mismatch between business needs and theoretical security that sees someone log you in on their credentials. #fail
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Access: Autism, ABA and being a bad mother, in reply to Miche Campbell,
Oh, honey, get off the cross
heh
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OnPoint: Budget 2014: Yeah okay., in reply to nzlemming,
DBH $74.9M (down 48.1%
That must represent some internal transfer of functions?
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OnPoint: Budget 2014: Yeah okay., in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Disability services do seem to miss out
We need to see all the other amounts spread across government, not just the MoH-funded support services. It all adds up to about $3b.
I imagine one of the disability organisations will analyse that - perhaps DPA now that they have a really good policy person on board.
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OnPoint: Budget 2014: Yeah okay., in reply to Russell Brown,
Competent Budget in which the free doctors’ visits for under-13s will justifiably get a lot of coverage
Totally. Great policy.
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Russel Norman identifies large effective cuts in Health and Education budgets.
For Education, there is a nominal increase over those years from $10.12 billion in 2014/15 to $10.15 billion, but in real terms that is a 5.5 percent cut.
"In Health spending, the cuts over the three years amounts to $1.8 billion in real dollar terms. In Education, it is $588 million over the three years.
"The cuts in these two areas alone equal $2.4 billion, two thirds of the $3.5 billion surplus National is projecting by 2017. National is paying for their surplus from cuts to our health and education."
Andrea Vance tallies the other departments facing cuts.
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