Posts by Sofie Bribiesca
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Here's an old shot
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lily by night
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Capture: Getting closer, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Try again…
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More of the same…
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Soo, bee n buzzy..
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Hard News: Standing together, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
criss cross…
Did someone mention Oravida? I was just nosying around this morning thinking about donations and foundthis old article
It wasn't $56,600.00 in donations from Oravida to the National Party , more like $406,600.00.What the theme seems to be is "change the Name many times", get many Ministers.Shi even seems to have changed his name. It truly stinks.IMO. -
Hard News: Standing together, in reply to Gareth Ward,
“lawyers just execute their client's requests as per their obligation” line a little trite.
Hey, whilst lawyers in the past have cost me dearly and more recently been very helpful, I put them in similar category to Real Estate agents. We need them on occasion and we trust that they advise us in our best interest . We can then take an option out of those choices and in reality it is then the client that has the right to choose which a direction to take. I can imagine that whoever gave the directive has the sense of entitlement that we are witnessing and it may be one person or a board or whoever, that influences the outcome.
Point being, the letter would have been a directive and as much as lawyers have cost me in the past and with bad information, I'll still employ one for matters of need. I can't represent myself. The Lawyer was doing their job. Would you want them to be polite? They don't get their reputations for being polite unfortunately. As they say "the nice ones come last" and in their position, they'd lose. -
Hard News: Standing together, in reply to Russell Brown,
So there are those things to consider.
True and on Native affairs last night , this press release received ( which I cant find anywhere else) and read by Mihingarangi Forbes was given by Te Kotahitanga o Mataatua Tauranga Moana
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Hard News: Standing together, in reply to Bart Janssen,
if a lawyer finds themselves attacking the freedom of genuine investigative journalism by sending a bullying letter with no real substance to it, then again frankly, I’d have to wonder about the morality of that particular lawyer. And there is no doubt in anyone’s mind that the letter was intended to intimidate the journalists into silence.
So instead, do as the Govt does? With the crowd of Lawyers in NActional, when asked via the OIA, just black out any information you wish to supress? Nothing to see here….
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Hard News: Standing together, in reply to Ewan Morris,
They said the Ministry of Education would not renew the contract with the trust in its present form when it expired on June 30 and set out the Government's expectation that the trust be reformed before treaty negotiations began.
They said the contract could be extended to October 30.
Today they said that in saying they want to hear from the trust board by April 30 was not setting a deadline.
So April,June. October maybe.
