Posts by Sacha
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Up Front: Sex with Parrots, in reply to Stephen Glaister,
whatever the messy reality is must be representable
there's your problem. maths is no substitute for humanity
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Up Front: Sex with Parrots, in reply to Stephen Glaister,
so by 'radicals' you mean feminist academics.
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Up Front: Sex with Parrots, in reply to James Butler,
meta
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Speaker: All aboard: The choice for…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
the government could be doing a lot more about leading NZ into the future, but they're not.
Yet they think they are. Need more voices pointing out they're not wearing any clothes.
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Speaker: All aboard: The choice for…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Rod Drury rightly believes
An interesting thing about that paper is that it marked a formerly-committed free market advocate recognising that there can be market failure in infrastructure provision unless government steps in and does its job.
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Speaker: All aboard: The choice for…, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
to contribute
Exactly. That potential is a casualty of the short-sighted decisions we've tolerated over the past few decades. Selfishness has been prioritised over a sense of service to any group larger than ourselves, including a professional field.
The conversational fixation on *tax* is a reflection of that narrow monetised and transactional focus that many seem to regard as quite normal in our neoliberal laboratory.
Alternative discussions about community and the satisfaction of doing good work have been inadequately led, supported and stewarded. I welcome The Voyage as a sign of change.
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Up Front: Sex with Parrots, in reply to Stephen Glaister,
which is what a lot of radicals want, of course!
please explain
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Speaker: All aboard: The choice for…, in reply to izogi,
today there's very little investment in providing the stepladders
That has been our private sector's weakness for some time - refusal to play their part in ongoing training, research and development, etc. Hands out for corporate welfare instead. And then the pricks complain about 'big govt' or 'crowding out'.
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Hard News: Press Play > Budget, in reply to Kumara Republic,
doubleplusgood
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Speaker: All aboard: The choice for…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
you should also be rewarded (and even respected) for your contribution
I'd settle for either.