Posts by Hilary Stace
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Nicky H also wins the prize for most misspelled (including by me) and mispronounced name. It's Hager like lager.
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I’m sorry but it has to be Dirty Politics possibly the #dirtypolitics version or the verb as Giovanni suggests. The PAS thread with this heading started in August, is still active and today is up to 156,000 views. Is that a record?
Textual Relations and Beltway would be my second and third choices with Cut the Crap as a late runner.
Perhaps you could just send the prize to Nicky Hagar as the author of the most used phrase this year. Could we also elect him as New Zealander of the Year or even the decade?
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The best bookshelf door to a bathroom I have seen is at the Havana Bar in Wellington, which looks a lot more like a regular bookshelf than a door - just by the way.
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Cabinet Ministers, most CEOs, heads of government departments, even some school principals have such 'lairs'. Didn't 7 Sharp go and have a look at the PM's one last year as part of a portrait of the PM's day, for one of their pre-election soft stories?
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Thanks for explaining all this, Graeme. Have been waiting for the Wellington super city plan to be revealed - I think it has been ready for months but was held back until after the election. I remember the law change which removed the right of each region to vote for the future of their own region, and put up the 10% barrier to a referendum. I think that Chris Hipkins was one MP who fought it (not surprisingly as he is from Upper Hutt). But it was all a bit theoretical for most people to notice at the time.
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Thanks Matt. So well expressed.
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I'm also a fan of the Australian academic/journalism site The Conversation. It presents international and local research in a very accessible way.
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On the other hand you can turn aspects of your research into blog posts. No academic glory from that but you get out to the community and get some feedback. Some of my posts in the Access blog have come straight out of my PhD. My research was largely funded by NZers via the Health Research Council and I value that giving back aspect. Probably read by more people than in an academic publication too!
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An interesting article here by Pattrick Smellie about Grant Robertson and the Finance portfolio.
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Oops - I see Russell already posted this. But it is still very weird. Where will it all lead?