Posts by Paul Williams
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Price's analysis is very helpful and it appears the HoS may retain the right to publish without penalty if they are convinced (and can subsequently prove) the taping was not intentional. I can't unravel the facts from the various published stories, however the lack of a transcript simply fuels speculation.
what would have happened if there were two lip readers
I think the answer to this is clear to the extent that lip readers are "a device". If they are and they deliberately intend to intercept, then they'd commit the offence.
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Steve Barnes,
So, where’s the money?.
An entirely reasonable question, if only the cameras were on you!
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Sacha,
Yes. And Donald was obviously someone who valued and worked towards having a constructive relationship.
On an entirely different matter, I'd not recommend reading Cathy Odgers piece on Jacinda Ahern. It's odious, even by her low standards.
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Sacha,
What period were they talking? The ideological composition of the Greens has certainly changed this year - but that hasn't stopped any of the snideness from some Labour MPs.
The first two terms of the Clark government particularly. I am aware of some of the snideness of Labour, I'm also aware of some of the annoying moral superiority of some Greens (and to be clear, I'd put myself on the right side of Labour but I have genuine respect for many Greens, current and former).
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Sacha,
And ask the Greens about dealing with Labour.
At the risk of raising matters best left in the past, my sources tell me that the Green/Labour relationship often worked well and that not all the difficulties were because of Labour.
Linger said:
What’s the worst example you can think of from Labour? Harry’s Law? Politically expedient, sure, but not something that affected NZers’ lives.
Well there's always the State Services Act 1988, introduced immediately prior to Christmas 1987. Legend has it that Caucus were told about the Bill on the morning of its introduction and that it was described as a "minor technical amendment". Still that was the Fourth Labour government, not Clark's and I can't think of anything they did under urgency...
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OnPoint: Fiscal Responsibility is the…, in reply to Brendon Steen,
Perhaps, though there's plenty of GST exempt products in Australia and the world still spins.
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Russell Brown,
That’s disgusting. The British rugby press should be flaying those clubs.
But they'll not, their performance in some shitty local albeit European league depends upon imported players. Thank God, I mean Jock Hobbes, this is not the rugby reality we face. It's his personal intervention that saw off the Murdoch-backed global competition that would have decimated national competitions.
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Must go and search the online libraries to watch these series.
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Field Theory: All Blacks v Wallabies Tensionfest, in reply to BenWilson,
Actually, I reckon Kaino and American Football would work well. He'd be a classic running back no? I suspect he's incredibly quick over 20 metres.
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Can I just observe that despite Curran being guilty of the occassional slip of the tongue/keyboard, she's been part of opening up the Labour policy development process and for that, if nothing else, she's to be warmly congratulated.