Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The Next Labour Leader, in reply to Richard Aston,
had no idea
I'm sure that daughter of yours could have steered you right :)
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Hard News: The Next Labour Leader, in reply to Chris Robertson,
at current stocking levels
And that's a big problem - the govt-backed notion that doubling dairy herds is good for this country. And the accompanying nonsense about subsidising famers for their carbon pollution until technology comes to the rescue. Heaven forbid they should have to cut their expansionary ambition to suit the environment's current carrying capacity. Agri uber alles.
Naturally the opposition were all over that for the last few years..
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Hard News: The Next Labour Leader, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
NZ already had a largely-undeserved international "clean green" brand worth billions. Investing in that is part of the current generation's role as kaitiaki, as well as sound sustainable economic development.
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Hard News: The Next Labour Leader, in reply to BenWilson,
Maybe making a national and believable green brand might actually work, enabling us to make high margin products, in sustainable way. Eventually, everyone's going to have to do this - it wouldn't hurt us to be one of the first ones.
That was the last Labour government's position - though they hadn't funded it enough yet. Trashed immediately anyway by the incoming Nats at Copenhagen, embarrassing our well-respected public servants who had to explain the faith-based change to their peers.
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Hard News: The Next Labour Leader, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Genuinely interested in evolving perceptions of what the Greens are about. And how that relates to Labour's positioning and relationships.
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Hard News: The Next Labour Leader, in reply to Bart Janssen,
they aren't and never have been
You've read the Browning article?
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Hard News: The Next Labour Leader, in reply to Tom Semmens,
I find the idea that somehow the environment is going to become the most important issue confronting voters when they come to voting a complete load of old clarts. More important than jobs? The economy? health? Really? Yet this seems to be the assumption that is lying at the very heart of the thinking of the Green party supporters right now.
Given the Greens election campaign was explicitly premised on smart jobs and child health as well as clean rivers, your confusion tells us more about you than the party.
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Hard News: The Next Labour Leader, in reply to Richard Grevers,
When I heard "Waitakere" I thought of the ranges, treehuggers, artists, Bob Harvey and Earthsong community, not Jethro West. Perhaps "Henderson Man" would be a more definitive term.
+1
Or even 'Te Atatu man'
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Hard News: The Next Labour Leader, in reply to James Littlewood*,
what about National supporters who might have opposed asset sales? I'd understand if a few hundred thousand of them stayed home.
and they did
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Hard News: The Next Labour Leader, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Danyl provides a little insight re. Trotter's unrequited boner for Waitakere Man.
Bravo, I mean Brava