Posts by Sacha
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would go a long way to naturally re-populating our newsrooms with actual journalists.
Only if your trusts have a new way of making their income. Staffing decline is a response to pressure on the whole business model.
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Agreed.
Also, using trusts as tax-avoidance mechanisms is technically illegal
Although there's something about exempt gifting to the trust's beneficiaries, isn't there?
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Like most wealthier kiwis, you can guarantee that the Tamakis have a tidy family trust or trusts that receive dividends from Proton and income from their church. Or they need a better accountant.
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For local govt junkies, the Auckland Transition Agency has released its draft structure for the new Council.
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Long as you don't start discussing philosophy or copywrong, we'll be right.
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Matthew, I'm not counting on changing your perception any more than Roughan's but the example given was the route to the airport, not just the first stretch along the motorway.
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Psychological? - it's a straight piece of three lane motorway over a causeway, free flowing at maximum speed except at evening peak.
It's 4.8km from CMJ to Waterview, then another 30km to the airport. Going to Rosebank adds about another 12th onto the journey. At the usual 100km/hr on that stretch, you're looking at another couple of minutes at most.
And that's assuming the route is mainly to get speeding cabinet ministers from central Auckland to the airport, as opposed to connect masses of freight and travellers in an alternative north-south connection from Manukau to Joyce's home in Albany.
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seemingly willful dismissal of policy based on evidence and research in favour of what feels right
Roughan offers a perfect example about Joyce:
Auckland's western ring road had to come into Waterview rather that take the more obvious route along the Rosebank Peninsula, he explained, because it had to be the city-to-airport route.
He'd been advised there was no doubt travellers from the city would take the northwestern motorway as far as Waterview before turning towards the airport but they would not go as far as Rosebank.
Figures, when you think about it.
Just lapping up the truthiness. Who on earth would have provided that advice? For out of towners, the Rosebank exit is the very next one, 3 easy kilometres further along the three-lane motorway.
Rosebank peninsula is also a major industrial spine concentrating freight transport - rather than low density residential suburbs like the chosen route. There were some engineering reasons against Rosebank, sure, but not the willingness of private car drivers to go another few kilometres at motorway speeds to get to the airport faster.
Do you have to be fawningly gullible to be a journo these days?
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rofflenui
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religious groups get away from tax on the presumption that all religious activity is charitable
I thought it was something to do with separating church and state, historically. I agree it doesn't really stand up these days.