Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Surely the types of consistent obligations you've listed - especially the Treaty ones - are part of the 'governance framework' that the Local Govt Act etc already imposes along with some freedom for Councils to act distinctively within it.
In any case, I'm not clear how more autonomy would fix Christchurch City Council's current problems.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
- enable communities to chose their own governance framework rather than imposing this centrally
- balance greater independence for councils with an enforceable requirement to comply with human rights, economic social and cultural rights and the Treaty.you don't see a contradiction between those two items?
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to nzlemming,
Absorbent surfers
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Russell Brown,
In general, copyright infringement is primarily a civil offence, in that the owner can take civil legal action and, where appropriate, claim damages.
The threshold for treating it as a criminal offence varies considerably between jurisdictions.
That. I am not a lawyer.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Beside the point.
Your point must be something other than you wrote, then.
Blaming voters for local govt. laxity
Voters work with what they have. A functioning political discourse is required.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to alobar,
I'm saying the two things are not the same. the analogy works OK in some other ways.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Steve Barnes,
You'all didn’t think Labour was good enough, remember?
I believe you'll find even they're admitting that they weren't.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to merc,
A requirement to consult
Note that Minister at the time Michael Bassett intended that to mean retain the services of expert consultants, not ask the public what they think. That would come as little surprise to any who have followed his career.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to alobar,
That doesn't make it a less valid comparison from a legal perspective.
drug crimes are not civil offenses. proven copyright violation is.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Rich Lock,
Would you like your world to be divided neatly into two groups: things that cause cancer, and things that don’t?
I knew gypsies caused cancer..