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Juha Saarinen

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 20:40:13 +1300

No no no, not that kind of cheering.

nzlemming

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:33:07 +1300

Are they really that stupid?

Australian maxim: If it's brown, drink it. If it moves, regulate it.

If it doesn't move, regulate until it does.

B Jones

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:49:22 +1300

I mean, many Australians aren't particularly famous for their open-minded attitudes towards Aboriginal culture.

That being said, they still had Yothu Yindi singing Treaty and Midnight Oil performing in tracksuits with "Sorry" printed on them at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Olympics. And Savage Garden singing Affirmation, which includes…

nzlemming

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:29:34 +1300

I went to University with Murray some years back and he was out of step and a bit of a foot in the mouth wally even back then.

What scares me (all right, only marginally) is that the Nats regard him as a primary strategist. WTF? And they wonder why…

Simon Grigg

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:13:53 +1300

Yeah but be fair JP I sat through countless bloody RIANZ and the like meetings where home taping was portrayed as the death knell of music as we know it. Before that of course there was, before our time the LP, which was hailed the same way. Then there was…

JP Hansen

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:01:15 +1300

did the recording industry get all up in arms about taping records and dubbing mix tapes for your mates?

Actually yeah, they did "Home taping is killing music"

However... it took 90 (plus) minutes to make a mix-tape, and a further 90 (or maybe 45 on hi-speed dubbing) to make…

Mark Thomas

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:52:43 +1300

waaaaaay back in the 80's when walkmans and double tape decks came out, did the recording industry get all up in arms about taping records and dubbing mix tapes for your mates?

not quite the same of course, though you could get quite good quality on those chrome and metal…

Brent Jackson

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:13:54 +1300

Now that's a good idea. Get DD to run against McCully in East Coast Bays – he'd be a shoo-in ...

Clarke

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:53:12 +1300

The Australian approach to copyright is astoundingly stupid. All it will do is criminalise the vast majority of the population – which seems one of the more pointless exercises politicians can indulge in.

Do they seriously think they will start locking up voters for the "crime" of ripping their CDs…

dc_red

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:47:20 +1300

One of the great things about July 27, 2002 was that the Hon Mr McCully came within 1534 votes of losing the National stronghold of Easy Coast Bays.

Still, shouldn't be too cocky, Helen Clark almost lost Mt Albert in 1990.

Sharon Topliss

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:36:11 +1300

Please don't send him back to the Shore Russell – the only thing that makes it tolerable having him as an MP is that he spends so little time here (as far as I, a humble voter, can tell).

Ok – I tell a lie – not even that makes…

Joanna

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:16:35 +1300

I'm a long way away right now so a little out of touch with te public response but Dobbyn is more akin to our Ayers Rock / Uluru than anything else

Not to be too pedantic or anything, but isn't Ayers Rock/Uluru pretty bloody controversial in itself? I mean, many…

David Slack

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:11:45 +1300

To the North Shore!

To Juha's place. He needs cheering up.

Russell Brown

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:07:14 +1300

Send him back!

To the North Shore!

Oh, hang on. He seems to have political asylum in the Republic of Grey Lynn ...

David Slack

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:20:04 +1300

In light of Dobyns disclosure about the Queen aproving of the music, Mr McCully must have egg somewhere on that face of his? ?

What's more, who says Republicanism (if indeed that's his preference) is the preserve of the Left?

When I think about it, though, Dobbyn is clearly trouble.…

Simon Grigg

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:11:45 +1300

I went to University with Murray some years back and he was out of step and a bit of a foot in the mouth wally even back then. But to imply that Dobbyn, who to most NZers is a bit of a national icon, is a died in the wool…

Compie

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:34:44 +1300

In light of Dobyns disclosure about the Queen aproving of the music, Mr McCully must have egg somewhere on that face of his? Any comments from the man yet?

But further to that, what a twat having a go at the musician and not the dotty old royals who fell…

Public Address

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:34:44 +1300

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