Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: You down with TPP?, in reply to Russell Brown,
To be fair, Fran O'Sullivan also has a non-journalistic interest with her involvement in the US-NZ Trade Council and associated cheerleading.
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a political one:
ABC
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Gordon Campbell is cutting about NZ's embarrassing knicker-waving to the US in the TPP negotiations.
Another article notes the potentially conflicted interests of the Minister in charge of negotiating on our behalf.
Groser seemed pretty confident in his Inside US Trade interview that he can both please the Americans, and manage any outcry that might break out here at home: “I am confident we can find ways that advance U.S. interests [on these two issues] without causing projectile political vomiting in New Zealand, and many of the other countries of the TPP,” Groser said.
Plainly, by being seen to be seeking to “advance US interests” and by casting himself as a deal broker within the TPP, Groser would also be doing no harm at all to his bid to become the next head of the World Trade Organisation. Let’s just hope and pray that Groser’s personal ambition and New Zealand’s best interests manage to intersect at some point.
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Hard News: Switched on Gardener: to what…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
when she witters on about the Canadian retired judge not having the facts right
Supreme Court judge for over a decade - but naturally our Judith knows better
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Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word…, in reply to andrew gunn,
Because so many people are now saying "I refute that" when they mean "I deny that".
quite, and now people think denial is proof
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Field Theory: The Force will be with…, in reply to BenWilson,
total absence of spin-offs
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Hard News: Looking at Leveson, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I thought there were laws about using telecommunication devices for malicious purposes?
A tv story I saw said that Australian broadcasting/surveillance laws offer relevant protections for recording without knowledge or broadcasting without consent. Guess that's why the station manager has made such a deal of how many times they phoned the hospital for permission.
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Whamsy, you say? One for the fans (via Ben Gracewood)
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Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
geographically, perhaps. socially, worlds away
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Farmer Green,
Federated Farmers: we know that farming has to change
yet we will continue to support our members doing nothing about it