Posts by Sacha
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Because NZ employers live in the dark ages and fret that they aren't getting their pound of flesh out of the serfs if they aren't at their desks 8:30-5:00
Poor quality management and governance is a major reason for our nation's low productivity. Sadly that includes managing staff's time and presence rather than their results.
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Angus, it's telling that public transport experts and even the main Auckland Mayoral candidates support the cbd loop in pretty much the layout proposed 70 years ago.
Like others, I really encourage you to go read Joshua's many detailed and illustrated posts about it, as you seem interested in the topic.
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Does anyone else keep reading the title of this post wondering why John Roughan is sacred?
Scarred, for me
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Sure, the politics aren't easy in such a road and car based culture, but a good political leader should be able to steer this through ok.
Instead we have the incumbent chimp calling the (for once united) supercity candidates loony for supporting rail over his beloved asphalt truck-heaven holiday highways.
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One of those two cases - tie-wearing thief or student mum beneficiary - is clearly being "ambishus" in the approved form. Good to know.
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How you doin'?
roflnui
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...they allow room to have policy decided by the tried and true systems of graft and political favour. Essentially the only purpose is to allow policy that favours businesses...
Like setting up a 'working group' of carefully selected right-wingers to 'review' the tax system or welfare or retirement funding, for instance.
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He commits aggravated assault on an opponent and doesn't so much as lose his place in the national team. The fact that Steve Moore wasn't a woman or a child doesn't seem that much of an extenuating circumstance to me.
Nah, me neither. Surely any muscled pro athlete must be getting close to being a different category of assault - like boxers or martial artists. Even against other athletes the potential for lethal damage should count for something - even without considering their influence on young spectators.
I want to see some prosecutions of sports thugs for the damage they do to society.
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You're thinking of Kororareka
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There are probably many niche pockets of Remuera, Khandallah, Fendalton..