Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Mercury Special, in reply to Bruce Wurr,
I thought I'd done that
force of habit (said the nun to the bishop)
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to petard,
it is worth noting that Auckland inc really isnt all that big on a global scale
I thought it was one of the largest local bodies in the southern hemisphere (though I don't recall where I read that)?
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Hard News: Mercury Special, in reply to Bruce Wurr,
Meant to post this last week
NB: If you paste any full Youtube link (including the 'http' but none of the square brackets bizzo like other links here), it embeds automatically so people can see what it is:
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Legal Beagle: Voting Referendum: Jus' Sayin', in reply to Russell Brown,
there's no way you're getting me to engage with STV after 5pm on a Friday
Ae, not even with videos
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to nzlemming,
If you're going to say things like that, Cassandra, you'd better post more often.
+1
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Cassandra,
Penny Hulse is to be commended for her honesty with Aucklanders by publicly pointing out the size and scope of various problems.
+1
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to John Holley,
I may have to write a more fully detailed tome
Addressing the relative involvement and behaviour of former councils in the transition process would be enlightening. Even just in the IT part of it.
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Brian Edwards posts about the show and its topic.
In almost half a century of living in this country I can count on two hands (and with a finger or two to spare) the number of MPs found guilty of lying to Parliament. And if we’re talking about premeditated, shamefaced lying to us, the voters, the number probably isn’t much higher.
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Russell Brown,
But so clever
which pretty much rules out that provenance
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Steve Withers,
Much worse in my view was the way First Past the Post and the ward system resulted in 62.5% of all votes cast for the Council electing no one at all.
The brief select committee report (68KB PDF) into the 2010 local elections has recommendations for future ones (h/t DPF). Naturally, the choice of voting system was not within its terms of reference..