Posts by Sacha
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Up Front: Casual, Shallow and Meaningless, in reply to JacksonP,
What a dude. He was so damn funny ad-libbing on Rove.
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Up Front: Casual, Shallow and Meaningless, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Yeah but that's hanging out or communicating, not "reading".
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Elmo is love - says the man who brings the red critter to life.
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Up Front: Casual, Shallow and Meaningless, in reply to HORansome,
my sample is already biased, given that they are uni students
extremely
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Even the Granny is sceptical of the attempts to usurp transport policy out of Auckland's hands.
Sigh. The paper still does not grasp that the central loop doubles the capacity of the region's entire rail network (otherwise bottlenecked shortly, preventing any more frequent services or adding of an airport line). It's not just about the cbd.
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Submissions on the 30 year Auckland Plan have been extended a little to 4pm on Monday 31 October.
People from *anywhere* can have a say (this is the correct link for the broken one in the news article).
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
This is why I have no time for these bullies
And here's what this government's yesterday's men are saying no to for Auckland. Let's agree to laugh in their faces if they have the gall to use words like "ambitious" again. And remind them of the word "downgrade" too. Even in their own narrow terms, they are abject failures.
Brown relates that when he meets up with the council's Youth Advisory Panel they ask him, "Why should I stay in Auckland?"
'It's critical that we provide them with a sense they can get all their career options here, so they don't have to travel to Australia or America.
"The Government and the country share a concern that we are leaking our best talent overseas.
"So we need to be developing an economy in Auckland that ticks all the boxes for this generation coming through. So when they come out with their top class degrees they are genuinely enthused about staying in Auckland because they see it's a world class city - it gives them great opportunities for their careers."
As the Mayor says in the article you linked to:
having set up the Super City to speak with one voice, the Government needed to listen with both ears
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Up Front: Casual, Shallow and Meaningless, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I could see " Facebook" being an answer to that.
Do you reckon young people think of that as "reading"?
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Up Front: Casual, Shallow and Meaningless, in reply to Amy Gale,
I rather like "what have you been reading lately?"
Does that work on many young people?
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Hard News: Meme Syndicate, in reply to Hebe,
mullet
say no more