Posts by Sacha
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Access: Who Are Disabled New Zealanders?, in reply to
StatsNZ report ageing as the cause of impairment for about a quarter of all over-15s (and about half of over-65s).
However their survey design deliberately excludes that cause from initial prompts, so it may be higher.
Say 2 to 3 of the 9. Hard to say how many of those are 'suffering'.
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Hard News: To be expected, in reply to
Kelvin Davis #yay
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Access: I Can’t See You, But You Should…, in reply to
People with disabilities, and their family and friends make up a sizeable chunk of the population
Funny you should say that - see my latest post.
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Speaker: The purpose of science and its limits, in reply to
over 20 years none of the magic has worked. So my thinking is how about we stop doing things that don't work and simply do the thing that has worked in every other country.
Yes. Applies to everything really. NZ tried neoliberalism pretty thoroughly from 1984 to 1999, yet fools persist with it despite the results (or because of them if they're in the small group who did well).
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Hard News: To be expected, in reply to
Post at The Standard adds some details, including transcript.
Collins wants us to believe she understood "after the dinner" to mean the same evening rather than any later time. And that it was coincidence she corrected this misinterpretation after parliament could no longer ask her about it for a couple of weeks.
Then she has the gall to whinge about her and her family being "attacked".
The story also mentions RNZ's subsequent interview with Key (6m).
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Hard News: To be expected, in reply to
Judith Collins likening her last few weeks to the 'Salem witch hunt
Unseemly whinging on Radio NZ (4m audio)
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Hard News: To be expected, in reply to
Hard to know what decision processes are used for List appointments.
a weakness in the current implementation, yes - but the concept of voters responding to lists that more accurately reflect the population than FPP did is easily borne out by the faces in parliament now compared with 20 years ago.
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Hard News: To be expected, in reply to
solely comprised of List MPs?
who asked for that?
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Hard News: To be expected, in reply to
its Easter so don't egg me on
wouldn't dreme of it
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need to get elected rather than rely on the List
Under MMP, an electorate MP is no more deserving than a list one. The sooner silly FPP thinking like that dies out, the better.
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