Posts by Hilary Stace
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Just watched final election interview on Alt TV. Oliver Driver did a great job interviewing Helen Clark. Better questions, more informative, more open than the other staged managed ones. I hope they will both be around for more long interviews next election.
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Just watched final election interview on Alt TV. Oliver Driver did a great job interviewing Helen Clark. Better questions, more informative, more open than the other staged managed ones. I hope they will both be around for more long interviews next interviews.
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Thanks for your mention of the Labour candidate in Wellington Central, Grant Robertson. He would be a great MP - good values and intellect for parliament, and would also be a great electorate MP and fighter for people. Much of the work of being an MP is working for people and supporting them in their battles with the system. It doesn't make the media but does make a difference for real people and their lives. Retiring MP Marian Hobbs was particularly good at this and Grant is the same.I know, as he has already helped me with some issues around disability and autism.
But this is a wealthy electorate which has been held by Labour, National and even Act in the last couple of decades so Grant needs every vote possible to win it. So, if you are in Wellington Central, please do.
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And highlight for me was the mention of disabled people in his acceptance speech. What a great day for inclusion. I was collecting my son from his guitar lesson and here was this inspiring oratory coming from the car radio. Made me feel all hopeful about the world.
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This post must hold the record for the longest thread ever at PA. And a great historical record of the US election in NZ. I've been away from computers and TV most of the day but here is the Obama win unfolding. Did you know it is also Parihaka Day? We had fireworks in Wellington to celebrate Obama's win, with crowds in the streets just like in the US.
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By the way, the 1990 election was really depressing. The left was divided and decimated. I remember one election meeting when Prime Minister for a few minutes, Mike Moore, spoke for about half an hour without getting to a full stop in his monologue, and the whole time being totally incomprehensible.
It's actually quite a tribute to Helen C's rebuilding skills that there is a whole new generation of post Rogernomics political activists of the Left. At least there is in Wellington.
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Re Bill Birch running over Felix Geiringer - there was a great fundraising t-shirt made following that incident with bloody tyre marks across it. What surprised me was there was very little media outrage at the incident.
Te Papa should have an exhibition of political t-shirts sometime. That would be interesting.
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That teaching to the test is what National is proposing here. The linking with funding is likely to follow. As well as turning kids in general off learning it is particularly inappropriate for children with different learning styles or special educational needs. Temple Grandin condemns its effect on kids with autism.
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What I would like to see running the country is a democratic collective, with representation from the diversity that is NZ (including vulnerable populations such as disabled people). They would have to reach consensus on issues, as good governance should do, so there would only be be well considered, evidence-based policy. I think NZ is moving towards this, if not this election then as the MMP evolves.
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Whatever Key did or didn't know or doesn't remember doesn't really matter.
But I feel distinctly uneasy that someone who worked in the industry in which this sort of financial behaviour was normal could be in charge of NZ's economy. Worse, the values underderlying the dog eat dog competitiveness of the financial markets are not those NZ needs for an inclusive society which has many vulnerable populations.