Posts by Sacha
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Hebe,
we had a PM and Finance Minister who could speak the insurers' language and would put cutting a deal with them at the forefront
They did. The results speak volumes about whose interests they're working for.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to 3410,
or perhaps some taxes avoiding wealthy people?
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Michael Savidge,
I see what you did there
Great on its own.
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OnPoint: PREFU 2011: "What credit downgrade?", in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Would this be the “secret agenda”
nothing secret about it.
though that tag still seems to be framing some coverage.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to DCBCauchi,
it shows where you are coming from, yes.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to DCBCauchi,
Then pray explain what you think a "knowledge economy" is.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to DCBCauchi,
the people (who claimed to be) paying the bills started insisting that the knowledge pursued serve particular interests: nowadays rendered using weasel words such as ‘knowledge economy’...
I believe you're confusing the latter with nutty neoliberal theories about private benefit from tertiary education that were used to justify introducing student fees.
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OnPoint: PREFU 2011: "What credit downgrade?", in reply to BenWilson,
Do you have some handy examples?
Not without digging, no. There have been internal reconfigurations throughout government departments, and you'll start seeing that more obviously from the outside once this lot are safely re-elected, especially in the biggest departments like Health and Social Development. All with a handy dose of "we have no option but to cut services to balance the books" bollocks.
They've been way better at keeping it below the radar than the last time Ryall, English and co were involved in doing the same in the 1990s. Joyce is a more competent political manager and an ineffective opposition and media has helped them tremendously.
You'll recall English acknowledging earlier in the year for the first time that the govt has got rid of over 2,000 public servants since they were elected (after promising to "cap" their numbers). He recently talked about doing the same again in the next term.
It's just more of the same tired, defective thinking that has plagued this country's managing classes - that improving productivity means sacking or underpaying staff.
Sure, there are always bound to be some parts of the public sector that are ineffective and inefficient (just like the private sector), but do you really trust this lot to tell those apart from the essentials like mines, buildings and maritime quality staff, for instance?
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to JacksonP,
yep
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Not so much about actions as reflecting the rapidly changing times
In a time of change, reflection is seldom useful without action.