Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
tis a team sport, after all :)
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
who has been ridiculed in the House for trying from day one by the opposition
Uh, Twyford is a member of said opposition.
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Coming up shortly (after a piece on Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" album), Radio NZ National talks to Dan Charnas about his book, "The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop".
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Publisher and friend Jamie Byng who wrote a recent Guardian story on Gil Scott-Heron is the only source so far, via Twitter.
Gil Scott-Heron's death is NOT a rumour. I just called by Dorothy who is staying with Aunt Mimi in NY to tell me the news. I'm so sad.
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Legal Beagle: Voting Referendum: Jus' Sayin', in reply to uroskin,
Maori would be proportionally represented when getting multiples of 0.8%, like everybody else
Ah, the illusory level playing field..
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Hard News: Mercury Special, in reply to Russell Brown,
Gil Scott Heron has died
Still waiting to see media confirmation. But yes, bugger.
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Muse: Hooray for Wellywood (Really!), in reply to Steve Barnes,
Why have successive Governments failed to attract such companies to our shores?
We're too small a market?
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Compare and contrast with the amount of coverage "Government ministers cost us between $300 and $2000 when they handed back their own drive cars to fix dings and scratches" got on TV a few weeks ago.
I guess most journos (and their audience) understand dinged cars so it's just easier, eh.
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Rob at Te Standard writes about this matter:
Auckland ratepayers are going to be stuck with a huge bill for the Nats’ failure to properly cost the Supercity merger process. Specifically in this case, the cost of merging the IT systems.
Planning for the Supercity merger was a shambles. There were many warnings here at The Standard about the un-costed aspects of the process, including mine (back when I was a guest poster) on the failure to plan for the costs of merging the various Council IT systems.
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to [email protected],
this MUST be the beginning of the end for them?
I doubt it. Us talking is not enough. Media won't drive this on their own.
Strong and coherent political opposition is required, and in this instance those who could have led some of it are now around the top table focused on trying to make things work. And their colleagues nationally have been missing in action so long it's only a 50/50 proposition that they even remember how to perform that role.
Re-reading that previous thread Russell linked to, it was interesting seeing us saying much the same thing a year ago. Look around - what has changed?