Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to BenWilson,
I believe you're over-rating the willingness of the Maori Party to work with Mana and Dunne to work with the Greens (who he seems to loathe though I've never understood why).
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OnPoint: 3 News Exclusive Investigation…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Agreed. I was thinking mainly of the link between wealth and success at university entrance exams, but I don't have the time to dig up any stats to back that up.
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OnPoint: 3 News Exclusive Investigation…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
And all because someone forgot what role universities are meant to provide for society and instead slammed their business model on our universities.
They didn't so much 'forget' as get away with changing.
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OnPoint: 3 News Exclusive Investigation…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
people who through good luck
and family wealth, let's not forget.
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Jackie Clark,
Electorates (and the mayoral election you mention) use FPP where competing candidates can "split the vote" and let a third person win.
MMP's party vote is *not* the same. Voting say Green or Mana rather than Labour does not automatically produce a win for the Nats, just as voting for Act or the Maori Party doesn't mean a win for Labour. It depends who can work with one another after the election, for a variety of reasons.
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Speaker: Why Auckland, and New Zealand,…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
I’m not interested in Auckland being like every other city in the world, generally. We are what we are
.. the largest Pacific/Maori city in the world, for one. I look forward to more architecture reflecting that, like the Manukau Events Centre, and governance that reflects those long traditions.
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OnPoint: 3 News Exclusive Investigation…, in reply to linger,
encouraging students to view it as theirs rather than the country's
exactly the intent, like so much of the neoliberal kool-aid this country has swallowed since the 1980s
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Muse: The Very Odd Future According to…, in reply to George Darroch,
Tyler's response.
Someone might like to point out to him that it's not the country that has 'banned' him.
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Muse: The Very Odd Future According to…, in reply to Russell Brown,
But not everything in a pop, rock or rap tune is to be taken literally.
Folk music, on the other hand..
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Paul Williams,
I'd not recommend reading Cathy Odgers
sound advice at any time.