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Sacha,
I confess that I haven't either, but as I understand it, the official address must be listed as Balmoral Rd., though it will have an entrance/exit on both Balmoral Road and Wiremu Street. What bloody use that is, I don't know. -
Is it too late for a petition for an appeal against this stupid decision?
Not quite. The Balmoral Says No group are, as I understand, planning to appeal to the Environment court.
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Because everyone who attends a private school is a dirty rich prick, right Idiot?
No, not at all. Any hardworking, ambitious New Zealander should be able to come up with $30,000 pa for something so important.
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My understanding is that the MSD database logs all queries and leaves an audit trail.
Well, that's something.
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The Minister has the right to see any information she wishes about her portfolio. It's her and her staff's role to determine whether it is ethical or not to request info about individual cases, and whether it's legal to release it. But usually, what the Minister requests, the Minister gets.
But, if true, we're not talking about *requests* at all, but instead a kind of unlimited access with no record of it, which is, IMO, open to abuse.
If Paula Bennett has a computer terminal in her office that gives her access to all beneficiaries' details, does that mean she can check names of people commenting in blogs like this, see whether we are beneficiaries or get any other welfare assistance, and release our details if she feels like it?
I think you've illustrated very well why it's ridiculous to think that such actions as yesterday's are at all acceptable.
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Again, apologies for the temporary threadjack, but it's important.
Here's why having a McDonalds in a quiet suburban street is a really bad idea:
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Oh, yeah! Forgot to mention (O/T, sorry), for anyone who might've missed it that, despite massive community opposition, McDonalds' application for consent for a Balmoral "restaurant" has, with minor restrictions, been granted.
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Which says there is no difference between the two
Well, it has a new address, which is one difference. If that's all, then good.
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Someone needs to find the answer to that. Might just be 'the internet', but if its been taken down, who did it and why?
Indeed. There is now a new page which is similar but not the same as yesterday's version.
Can we work out the differences other than manually checking?
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