Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Time to move on, in reply to tussock,
Also, someone put petrol in the wrong kind of container once
please tell me you're not describing molotov cocktails
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Recommended listen: employment law professor discusses good faith, tells Radio NZ that the Judge had ordered POAL not to continue contracting out process - which the Port Chair has blithely said they are doing (10 mins, listening options).
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POAL serves lockout notice. Good faith clearly a very foreign concept.
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to DexterX,
Shareholding doesn't equal control, unfortunately - and the supercity and earlier SOE and port law changes were set up that way deliberately.
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Hard News: Time to move on, in reply to Russell Brown,
That Shearer chap needs a speech-writer who can deliver.. :)
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to DexterX,
You may be overstating 'owned by' in both those cases.
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to DexterX,
dismiss the CEO and appoint a new board
how?
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Hard News: Reputation and remuneration, in reply to DexterX,
not that it seems to matter
Politically it doesn't - unless an effective opposition can muster public understanding and support against the changes. All of them, not just one or two sacrificial elements. I'm sure the government would be happy to explicitly include libraries and swimming pools after a symbolic fight so long as the overall preparation for privatising local govt sails through.
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Hard News: Reputation and remuneration, in reply to DexterX,
they are just making the shit up as they go along
No, it has all been planned since before the 2008 election. Not necessarily competently, which might be a more fruitful angle.
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Muse: Confound The Ignorant, And Amaze Indeed!, in reply to Hebe,
tired old myth
not disagreeing with you