Posts by Sacha
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Predictably enough, they want what Act stands for. Kiwibog also notes surveyed CEOs' assessments of Brown vs Banks:
They also ranked the two leading candidate for Mayor on several attributes on a 1 to 5 scale
* Leadership skills – Banks 3.47 v Brown 3.06
* Puts interest of Auckland over political alignment – Banks 3.33 v Brown 2.74
* Vision and strategy – Banks 3.33 v Brown 2.99
* Management – Banks 3.27 v Brown 2.63
* Experience – Banks 4.11 v brown 2.84
* Judgement – Banks 3.26 v Brown 2.51
* Trustworthiness – Banks 3.37 v Brown 2.86
* Ability to form support within Council – Banks 2.98 v Brown 3.15
* Economic management – Banks 3.65 v Brown 2.56
* Courage – Banks 4.30 v Brown 3.46But 50% of CEOs want a new candidate to also enter the race.
Those views seem rather different from published polls of the general public. When reading the Herald's local election coverage, the results may clarify which voices the paper thinks it is their job to represent.
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Danyl is somewhat less enamoured with our champions of the boardroom.
It goes without saying that the reason Ireland is in this dire situation is because they optimised their national economy for business and productivity growth and that Australia – the envy of almost every other country in the world in terms of economic performance during the recession – did the exact opposite of everything that the Randian superheroes of the New Zealand Business world advised.
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Fran O'Sullivan is at least clear about where she gets her ideas from:
My sense is that public confidence in Banks and Brown is now sliding. That's already apparent in the business sector
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Impressive stuff
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The Herald's Paul Thomas beseeches media to remember innocence until proof, citing recent allegations against Al Gore and briefly worrying about Robin Brook - but curiously fails to turn his analysis on more significant reporting closer to home by his own colleagues.
And if journalists are aware that mud sticks and a single accusation can besmirch a reputation built up over decades, shouldn't they feel a responsibility to go at least some way towards establishing the truth, instead of simply ushering untested allegations into the public arena accompanied by pompous commentary which lends them a sheen of authenticity?
Finally, isn't the fourth estate supposed to have a commitment to the truth? Isn't that why we set such store on freedom of the press?
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Or one of them wrought iron gates
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cough ShaneJones cough
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I can so hear that as a radio play. Bravo, David
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Deutsche Post A.G. Which, for some reason, are the people who Amazon use to post things from America to New Zealand. No idea why.
They own DHL which I understand owns half of CourierPost.
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As Emma suggests, copy and paste is often the culprit with boilerplate text like T&Cs. Borrowed without much thought from previous sites by the same developer or organisation to save money and time. Sometimes from other jurisdictions where suing is pursued with gusto. All rooted in last century's thinking.