Posts by Sacha
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Special votes are counted and results are in.
National loses a seat and falls to 59, the Green Party gains a seat and will have 14 MPs. In the two tight electoral races, Labour's Brendon Burns has lost Christchurch Central to National's Nicky Wagner by 45 votes and Labour's Carmel Sepuloni takes Waitakere off Cabinet Minister Paula Bennett by just 11 votes.
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MMP is also confirmed as the voting system in the final results of the referendum also held on November 26. Some 57.77 per cent backed MMP and in part two 46.66 per cent supported FPP as the most preferred alternative.
The majority support for MMP means the system stays but a review of the system is triggered.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I was impressed by how fast #eqjp appeared when Japan had their big quake. Did New Zealanders create/popularise that tag as well?
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Sacha,
(by 'there' I meant in that context, not that place)
nurse, caffeine -
Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Wonder if any Cantabrians have more recently used nekminnit about the quakes (though munted undoubtedly has a stronger claim there)?
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Are vampires sparkly and twinkly?
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Lilith __,
there was a lot of talk about fault lines and the mechanics of earthquakes and liquefaction
that went beyond Chch
parties where toileting was the number one topic
not so much
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Max Rose,
ISBN
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to Richard Aston,
smote :)
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Isaac Freeman,
they'll find you interesting
you may be conflating interesting and sexy
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
spooky