Posts by Sacha
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Max Harris expanding on a politics of love.
Love, in sum, is a deep sense of warmth directed towards another. This approach, which I developed with the New Zealand writer Philip McKibbin, highlights love’s depth and directedness. It’s consistent with self-love, which involves a deep sense of warmth being directed towards our own selves. The word ‘warmth’ gets at the outpouring of goodwill that is associated with love. And warmth can take more specific forms, such as affection, attention, care, and concern.
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Drove through the avenue of glorious autumnal trees along Gt Nth Rd through the Chev towards Western Springs today. One of youse (non-driving) locals please take some shots as I'm not there often.
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Another great event online, ta to sponsor Orcon and to bfm tech gurus like Rick Huntington for the solid stream where others fa i l . ..
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Speaker: How StuffMe looked from the regions, in reply to Hebe,
Fairfax news controllers in Wellington turn them down
3rd-and falling.
#irrelevance
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Speaker: How StuffMe looked from the regions, in reply to Hebe,
This city hums with wonderful and/or nationally-significant stories.
verily.
2nd-largest city and all that -
Hard News: Media Take: We need to talk…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
agri-academic utopia in NZ where our best agrichemists and botanists were developing new strains of weed that targeted all kinds specific medical uses - instead of trying to develop GM grasses that reduce methane gas output from cows.
For sure. There's an obvious high-value industry waiting to take advantage of great growing conditions and knowledge plus sci-tech institutions. Imagine what growers and scientists in regions like Northland and East Cape could export with the right govt support?
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Hard News: Behind those Herald…, in reply to EE,
Not enough character to admit what he has espoused - what a surprise.
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Hard News: Every option has costs, every…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
This isn't an accident, it's a deliberate policy setting to support businesses that would (and should) fail under a living wage.
If you can't run a restaurant and pay a living wage then the question is "should you be running a restaurant?", not "how can we get cheaper labour?".
Verily. Those who can afford to dine out can bloody well pay the price, rather than it landing on the shoulders of low-paid workers.
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Speaker: How StuffMe looked from the regions, in reply to Nick Russell,
The media coverage beyond the Bombays is dire, true. However Simon Wilson's central case is sound:
Auckland needs a sustained, focused, concerted plan. Because let’s call it straight: this city is on the edge of crisis.
We all know this. In transport, housing, health, education, crime, the drains when it rains – wherever you look – supply of services has been outstripped by demand, costs have risen beyond the reach of ordinary citizens and existing systems are failing to cope with their workloads. It’s as true for stormwater as it is for school counselling; congestion on the roads mirrors congestion in the health services dealing with diabetes.
A city in crisis is a city that can’t deliver to its potential – for its own citizens or for the country.
When he says champions, he's not talking media but politicians who need to recognise the different scale of both problems and opportunities in NZ's only large city. That does not mean ignoring the regions but it also does not mean letting a hick from Nelson dictate NZ's urban planning rules.
I agree with others that stronger regional media is perversely likely ro result from the hyper-commercial consolidation in urban markets.
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Hard News: Every option has costs, every…, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
Doesn't this tend to support the prime minister's comments that unemployed kiwis are all lazy or on drugs?
Alcohol abuse here is common, yes, but broader than the unemployed.