Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Flying Nun: Thirtysomething, in reply to Paul Rowe,
you would have had to read the whole thing to get to the tldr part anyway :)
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to dc_red,
Phil Goff doing well on RadioNZ
20 mins, listening options.
Certainly sounded less agitated. And finally knew the figure he's been asked about 3 times in 3 days. You'd think his campaign team might have made sure he was prepared after the first time. Or after that dreadful performance in the first week's Press debate. Politics 101 apparently too much for some.
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Is Mike Coleman's letter available as a plain web page we can link to? Though frankly I find some of his earlier writing more compelling.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Russell Brown,
Given that our media seem incapable or unwilling to do what's reasonable as you've outlined, I'll settle for the natural human response when someone utters outrageous porkies. Anything is better than the mute assent we've endured for the last few years.
How the media could deal with lies might even be a good topic for a Media7 show.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to David Hood,
Again I want any journo to laugh in Key's face if he claims Act are stable. The young twat against MMP ran the same line on Sky/Prime's election show last night too.
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to Joe Wylie,
CERA have the power.
True, but that doesn't help the rest of the country as mentioned in that story. Not that I'm saying the all too plausible scenario you describe would "help" Christchurch much either.
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to merc,
Even a one-page summary of the applicable evidence would disagree with his statement - which shows either how much attention the man has paid, or how prepared he is to say whatever interest groups like employers want to hear.
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Senior Council reps tell the #eqnz Inquiry they can't enforce quake-strengthening, get bogged down in which fraction of full compliance they'll accept.
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Radio NZ has a story about Key warning voters off Winston First (1m27, listening options).
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Absolutely. Hence the noises from National about needing another election soon to unblock their divine right to govern without constraint. Given our system's lack of other checks and balances and the character of Joyce, McCully and others, that's a concern.