Posts by Sacha
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Field Theory: Fight Club, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Gerry-built
Brilliant. You could build a good campaign around that. Tilt-slab wasteland, etc.
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Fran O'Sullivan is unimpressed with the government's sly wheeling-dealing.
It's not too late to walk away from an iniquitous deal which will see SkyCity underwrite the cost of building a new International Convention Centre adjoining its Auckland premises in return for being allowed to expand its casino business.
Other bidders are in the wings, including an Auckland Council-backed proposal to put the convention centre at its Edge complex. And none of these offers include "cheque-book legislation" with all its ghastly permutations.
...Yet the Prime Minister claims the expansion of pokie numbers will not materially lead to an expansion of problem gambling. He suggests this is because the casino operator is targeting international clients. He surely can't be serious.
...Sure the Government can save the taxpayers $200 million or so through this tawdry deal. But what sort of signal does that send to the rest of New Zealand?
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Ta. Still on a few sector committees myself. Our own ethics sometimes make it harder to oppose those without them.
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Hilary Stace,
some major changes coming up in the Ministry of Health ethical review processes
I'm guessing ethics committees aren't a 'front line' service. So where's the harm in gutting them, a bean-counting dunce might ask?
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
I always thought it was a bit dodgy that they were allowed into state schools and given a captive audience.
Same. Regular 'religious instruction' sessions (inevitably mono-Christian) always struck me as a dereliction of school responsibility, just to maintain the fiction of independence. I'd like to have seen a range of faiths brought in as part of an organised, moderated programme led by the school as part of the curriculum.
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to andin,
set yourself up to feel inadequate, yep good role model
aren't most 'role models' stretching us beyond what we are?
Falling short, as it were.
however it is quite a useful business model for a church.
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Field Theory: Fight Club, in reply to Biobbs,
when we haven't even finished the discussion about what the city centre should end up looking like
Gerry will decide for you.
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Capture: Cut Collective: Public Access 5, in reply to JacksonP,
reversed vertigo
crop out the bottom half and superimpose a star field and you've got the beginning of Star Wars
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Capture: Cut Collective: Public Access 5, in reply to Lilith __,
Sylvia Plath
We forget her skill rather than her demise. Not sure 'personal as political' did her many favours.
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Capture: Cut Collective: Public Access 5, in reply to Russell Brown,
Jackson, this is sensational.
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working with Cut Collective on a certain social event.
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