Posts by Sacha
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The airport train route also allows connection of another chunk of people living and working along the route - which would loop around to connect with Manukau's cbd too.
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it guarantees the job goes to those that already control the purse strings
You mean a "small, but rich, pool of talent"?
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I am still at a loss as to where the money has gone
In a whole lot of brown envelopes scribbled on in builder's pencil and buried in suitcases in the backyard Timaru soil..
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Tussle for wider power this first time, and first past post, hence the parties. Some smart independents likely in 2013.
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..and shat on by passing Steagalls
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Was never going to be room for more than two viable candidates, given the politics.
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But all the big banks will have provided the money which goes out the door to investors
Ah, no.
The government has collected $74 million, and has budgeted to pay out $900 million
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the scheme had cross-party support because there was a real risk of a ruinous loss of confidence in the banking system.
Given the global context, I doubt the response would have been any different no matter who was in government - and didn't they explicitly work together on it anyway?
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Decades of surburban poverty in South Auckland and other smaller western suburbs.
The Royal Commission addressed that by proposing a powerful local-central government partnership on social issues and pooled public funding. Naturally it was watered down by this Nact government into a quiet "Social Policy Forum". Ask candidates about that one.
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The Government this morning paid out $1.7 billion to cover investor losses - about $150 million more than it was required to
Anyone know more about that last bit?