Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Matthew Poole,
weak penalties (a 48-hour suspension and low-rent fine isn’t terribly scary), and effectively zero chance of losing their licence
so those are in the legislation, not case law? Interesting
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Less about policy than a message about power and ’control’ after a perceived set-back?
+1
Handy distraction from the heat on asset sales too. Political game-playing with real people's lives makes me sick.
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Sacha,
Human Rights Commission provides a useful paper about disabled students' access to education (pdf, 241KB), including reference to the 2002 'Daniels' case.
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Your point about the way schools are likely to handle disabled students is brought into sharper focus by the current moves to close remaining specialist residential units that provide an option for some students. Ian Leckie is unamused.
Didn't the last Labour government lose a major court case against forcing all disabled students into mainstream classes regardless of the actual level of support available in them?
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Matthew Poole,
repeat offenders keeping their licences despite egregious breaches of the law and of their duty of care
name and shame weak judges?
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
If anything I think NZ doesn't have a drinking problem, it's got a violence problem, and the booze just brings it out.
True. More cultural maturity in that area would help us.
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Russell Brown,
ah, have been mislead. oops.
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Lest I come across all nannyish, want to make clear I'm all for sociable fun and recognise drinking is part of that in our culture. Just unimpressed with the way the conversation seems to veer towards needing new laws or something. Would be good to help flush out the 'youth having fun' whiners.
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Russell Brown,
It's also an existing crime to be intoxicated in public. Someone might ask the Police what's stopping them from doing their job.
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Paul Brislen,
how about actually enforcing the liquor laws as they are supposed to
Exactly. How hard is it to remind license-holders that it's a privilege that comes with responsibilities. I'd expect hospitality sector organisations to back that strongly as well.