Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: If wishing made it so ..., in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
You can't use eftpos on the actual train or bus or ferry. Something still has to be used there. The new system is designed to be really fast, to speed up the whole system.
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The Standard fisks another couple of graphs. Usual warning about reading the comments applies.
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Hard News: Strange days for journalism, in reply to Richard Llewellyn,
she works very hard in this space
Also involved beyond her role as a journalist, which leads to some interesting framing in her writing.
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Hard News: If wishing made it so ..., in reply to Lilith __,
Tell the opposition. Instead we get numpty crap like this from one of them - and her leader doesn't even know she's said it when questioned hours later.
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Hard News: If wishing made it so ..., in reply to Matthew Poole,
unless we’re proposing to make public transport completely free we need an actual way of taking money off people.
Interestingly the solution to the system not being made accessible for blind passengers despite promises has been to do just that in their case. Pathetic.
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Hard News: If wishing made it so ..., in reply to Lilith __,
wouldn't it be nice if that could be re-framed
Absolutely essential. As soon as opponents use that framing, they've lost. Countering it takes organised and sustained comms/campaign activity. Frustratingly absent for some time.
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Hard News: The frustrating politics of…, in reply to Ben Curran,
Why do those pushing law reform (campaign wise, i.e. norml) never lead with this? Start getting stories like this into the media
Long-term thinking required. Some drugs disrupt that. :)
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How did Portugal's political process enable decriminalisation? Lessons there?
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Hard News: The frustrating politics of…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
So where did the perception we're second come from? I've seen that in many a TV story about our imprisonment rate.
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Current building and consenting processes and staff are more likely to be familiar with concrete tilt-slab construction. Its cheapness and convenience for developers means you'll see more and more of it so long as their interests are put at the front of the queue. Forget that eco-city. Real ambitious.