Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Hebe,
FFS: Labour must be as threatened as National by the Green Party for you all to degenerate into a scrap about alternative medicine.
Woah. It's a bit of a diversion, but I see no scrap or anyone being threatened.
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Hard News: Not so insane, in reply to Virginia Brooks,
But what gets me is the hypocrisy of outlawing genuine marijuana and allowing synthetic crap.
That's the elephant in the room. Nothing outlawed under the Misuse of Drugs Act is eligible for this process, even though natural cannabis is better understood and quite probably safer than the synthetic alternatives. It will change, but I'm not sure how long that might take.
Ironically, pot would probably fail the risk assessment because of the smoking part, but I think Matt Bowden is planning to submit an a cannabinoid inhaler product.
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Hard News: Local interest, in reply to Hebe,
In Christchurch (feel free to delete if this is an Auckland-only piece),
Not at all. I've just realised Generation Zero are doing the same thing in Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to barnaclebarnes,
Back at one of the early KiwiFOO’s Cunliffe really impressed with his grasp of the issues. I think he will be good for ICT.
Specifically, he sat down and listened to a lot of people talk about internet peering – including public servants who had never had the opportunity to speak directly to a minister – and then, at the end, summed up what he’d heard and undertook to act on the knowledge. In truth, there was no simple regulatory solution to the peering issue, and he didn’t promise one, but it made a huge impression that he had clearly understood what was being said. (To be fair, Bill English also gave a good show of being a listening minister at a later camp.)
He was also impressive the next time he came, as the recently unsuccessful applicant for the post of Leader of the Opposition. If I were strategising, I’d be looking to replicate that kind of roundtable vibe for the rest of the year.
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
and Louisa Wall now has get something that get her teeth into
And well deserved, too. I don’t think it’s just a matter of her being in the Cunliffe camp.
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I know nothing about Moana Mackey the spokesperson for scienc
She definitely has science cred:
Moana left the coast to study at Victoria University in 1993 and graduated in 1997 with BSc(Hons) with first class honours in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to bob daktari,
NRT’s take, is interesting, as it possibly explains some areas of potential weaknes
Yeah, he tweeted to that effect earlier. He may well be right.
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Jason Kemp,
It would be better if Clare gets another shot at the IT sector. I rather liked her enthusiasm.
Bags of enthusiasm, but not the credibility in the portfolio to match.
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Oh, and notwithstanding a bitchy tweet from Chris Finlayson (for goodness sake, Minister, do us all a favour and go and do some work), I'm please to see the Arts, Culture and Heritage portfolio given continued prominence. Basically, Grant Robertson and his former Associate Jacinda Ardern have swapped places. I think that's a branding portfolio for Labour.
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What I was kneading my pizza dough this afternoon, Dub Syndicate's 'Mafia' was playing. It seemed to offer the perfect rhythm for the job:
The pizza came out bloody wonderfully. Coincidence? I think not.