Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I really don't get why, when an MP has been naughty, they get to go on leave. Isn't that a reward?
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But if she's that grumpy at 5pm, at 6am she'll be strangling puppies and electrocuting bunnies between questions :)
As long as some of the more difficult interviewees know this before they take the air, I don't see what the problem is (except for the puppies and bunnies obviously).
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I still don't really get what the difference is betwixt a deliberate punch & a deliberate knee. At the end of the day the sanction is supposed to discourage violent* behaviour - are they not both violent?
In ice hockey punches tend to be a complete waste of time, as everyone is wearing a helmet, and often gloves.
A knee, particularly to the other player's knee as they are skating past is likely to injure. People's careers have been ended by kneeing.
That being said, I would hope that if the Irish guy had thrown two punches at McCaw in the ruck, he would have got the same punishment. The position of the victim and their awareness has a bit to do with it.
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Now it's really on:
A crowdsourcing application has been launched today and will be added to, both in content and functionality, over coming days.
The Internal Affairs Department last week released 7000 pages of credit-card transactions and receipts, covering MPs' spending between 2003 and 2008. Released under the Official Information Act on June 10, the documents have since been trawled through by journalists – and early findings have left MPs shamed and demoted.
Political editor Tracy Watkins says it has been a marathon effort to check each item of expenditure, with most offices still only part-way through the task. Given the scale of the job, she says it has been impossible so far to give many documents more than a cursory examination – although our research is continuing.
"But we have spent the past few days scanning the documents so we can make them available to our readers online. Now we ask for your help in sifting through the claims and receipts to spot anything we may have missed."
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This has possibly been the first time that I've been able to honestly say that sport and politics shouldn't mix. Well done Tom.
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It's been a biggish local deal for a while.
I guess so. Don't these politicians have anything more important to do though?
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Punching would often (not always) involve another willing participant. Kneeing a player in a ruck not so much.
Not unusual in other sports. A punch in ice hockey will get you in the penalty box, a deliberate knee is likely to get you an early shower.
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And has Sir Roger's sense of entitlement already been forgotten?
What that sort of behaviour annoys the hell out of me, that's above board and legal spending as part of crazy life-long renummeration package.
Which is pretty different from what we have here, which is against rules and/or illegal.
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So how come the emphasis on Labour?
Because the release covers a time period, most of which was Labour government?
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