Posts by Sacha
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Field Theory: Hospital Pass, in reply to Richard Irvine,
pooing beats rugby
heretic
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Field Theory: Hospital Pass, in reply to Yamis,
Moving the quarters to Auckland is a bit sucky. They could have played them in Dunedin.
Haven't seen the announcement details yet. Please do share the numbers that show Dunedin was a viable candidate.
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We tend to forget that Christchurch is our second largest city and so (usually) has more accommodation than say Wellington or Dunedin can muster. 'Ground capacity' would be a matter of packing punters in and keeping the IRB happy about the till take.
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and yet we're talking about it seriously rather than the rebuilding of Christchurch..
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Fran O'Sullivan writes a solid article about shareholder activism against the recent Hotchin spinfest. It's the balancing of power and challenging of fellow media I'd like to see more of from our journos and editors.
Frankly, it is important that the counter-view to Hotchin's claims gets aired. Herald columnist Brian Gaynor did a great job puncturing some of the myths in his March 4 column - "Mark Hotchin - own up or shut up".
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As [shareholder activist] Hepburn disclosed in his letter to the TVNZ board - which covered some of the material in a previous letter to Close Up producer Mike Valintine and frontman Mark Sainsbury - the issues that the Securities Commission and Serious Fraud Office are probing are much more complex than a media tussle between Hotchin and Allied Farmers' Rob Alloway as to which of them sold the former Hanover depositors the greatest pup.
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Surely TVNZ has it within itself to get these facts in front of its audience. Particularly, as the Hotchin PR campaign has now created a groundswell where some - who should know better - are turning the finger back at greedy investors for investing in risky finance companies.
It's surely obvious that the authorities are basing their investigations on more solid ground than that.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Kracklite,
another #eqnz thread :)
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Hard News: The Wall and the Paper, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
isn’t “heritage” all about political acceptability applied to private property?
Isn't it about the public interest in both private and public property and spaces that are part of our shared history in this place? Its balance with private interests is a political decision, yes.
Who gets to decide what colour you paint your house?
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Two articles that seem useful. Sorry if already upthread somewhere.
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/03/13/some-perspective-on-the-japan-earthquake/
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Hard News: The Wall and the Paper, in reply to Richard Aston,
Public floggings of page 3 girls ?
If you're talking Lhaws, that's private flogging *by* page 3 grrls
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Fooman,
NZAS at Bluff (the Aramoana smelter was never built)
Thank you. Too distracted.