Posts by Sacha
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Typographer :)
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Notwithstanding the dishonest politics Russell describes, I'd be happy to see money redirected to support music about and of this place, not by long-dead white Europeans whose local audience are amongst our most wealthy - and the most accustomed to subsidy it seems.
That doesn't mean cutting total funding and it doesn't mean ignoring systemic underfunding of the public radio broadcaster function.
Big congrats to Richard for RNZ's brilliant and accessible site. As I've told him, it has been a great example to show people that genuine fair access can still mean stunning rather than boring. A little extra funding there would help take the site to the next stage as media formats change.
And big ups to the Cactus posse for Worldsurfer.
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Totally agree
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Rofflenuinui
This thread is hands down the most concentrated wittiness I have ever beheld, and the neighbours now doubt my sanity more than ever. Thank you fine friends, a thousand thank yous.
I reckon Bollard might enjoy this too..
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Colin Espiner reports on Environment Canturbury stoush. Undistinguished group of Ministers involved in deciding what to do after biased report in favour of farming interests.
However, the Government is wavering over such a drastic step as removing the council. It would require a special act of Parliament, since neither Hide nor Smith have the legal power to do so.
It has established a high-powered Cabinet committee to consider the issue, comprising Smith, Hide, and Christchurch-based ministers Gerry Brownlee (economic development), David Carter (agriculture) and Kate Wilkinson (conservation).
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But Green Party co-leader Russel Norman said ECan was paying the price for standing up to the dairy industry and refusing water consents."Everyone now has a clear message. If you stand up to protect water, you're going to be taken out."
Norman questioned Creech's suitability to chair the report into ECan. "Wyatt Creech is a director of Open Country Cheese, which has convictions for dirty dairying. So why put him in charge of a review of the regulator of the dairy industry?"
Creech's firm has been twice prosecuted for contaminating Waikato farmland and rivers.
Another of the report's authors, Morrison Low, was employed by local authorities in South Canterbury to investigate the feasibility of breaking up ECan and forming a South Canterbury regional council.
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The politics of ECan and water have been going on for many years. Guess the farm lobby feel they have the upper hand now and looking at the bunch of redneck Ministers in charge of a decision, they're probably right.
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The frayed A brand came out in September 2008 but not widely promoted to the public. Follows 7 years of joint regional economic development/long term planning work. The AucklandPlus EDA site I've linked to explains.
Also has its own Brand Auckland site.
Unrelated (typical) to last year's Heart of the City visitor campaign which had the flashy tv advert up front with lower key follow-ups in print and online pitching specific events for visitors. I presume those are still going but as a non-visitor I don't pay much attention.
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Too much science involved in Environment Canturbury saying no to voracious farm irrigators, says report by director of convicted dairy polluter. Sack them at once..
The Creech Report found that an absence of planning and policy framework had led to a "piecemeal" approach to the management of fresh water.
It found there was a "science-led" rather than "science-informed" approach. ECan put too much emphasis on the environment and its consenting processes suffered from inadequate staffing, lack of skills, leadership and RMA planning.
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avoids comparisons such as you make - with frayed knots, or something being unravelled..
those associations were made pretty widely when the thing first came out
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virtually every problem in the world has been solved somewhere in the world—and it makes some sense to apply the best. Now, fortunately, it's easy to find out about them.
If only this government believed in evidence-based policy.