Posts by Keir Leslie
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No high school teacher is active in research at the cutting edge of what they teach. And yet going from one to the other all of a sudden this is a requirement of our first year lecturer. And the lecturers teaching first year history at university might actually research 1% of the survey course that they are teaching, or even none at all.
But the idea is that a lecturer has a practice. It might be you are getting taught Early Modern Europe by someone who spends most of their time researching the pilgrimage routes of France in the High Middle Ages. But they will be an active historian, so even though the content differs, they will have a strong grasp of process and practice.
The link between praxis and teaching is important.
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On Christchurch issues, what the hell do you mean ``in terms of broader policy’’. This is the broader policy, this lived, day to day experience of interaction with EQC, with CERA, with the Minister.
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Oh, ffs. The Labour Party is, sadly, the opposition. They have a choice, often, of supporting legislation in exchange for some concessions, or else losing and having bad legislation passed anyway.
The Labour Party has generally preferred to try and get things done, instead of making stands on principle.
Take the CERA legislation. No one, and I mean no one, has fought harder to keep the government on the straight and narrow over Canterbury than the Christchurch Labour MPs, and in particular, I have to say, Brendon Burns. (& that goes back to before the quakes, to the ECan takeover.) For all that the Greens made fine speeches, on the ground it has been Dyson, Dalziel, Clayton, and Burns that have actually been holding Gerry accountable.
So I don't have much time for that kind of aggrieved idealist complaint.
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Pretty much. There's a real problem with the size of the Maori seats and some of the Southern general seats. It is really problematic that if someone living in Blenheim is on the Maori Roll, then it is almost always half a day's travel to meet the MP, or even see their office.
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I live in the south island, I don’t care if we have 16, 15, 14 etc MPs. Just as long as we get a fair number based on how many of us there are.
To be fair, if there were fewer (general) seats in the South Island, they would start to be hilariously unmanageably large.
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We have evidence that Coney --- in her role as a Councillor and chair of the Council's Parks, Recreation and Heritage Forum:
approached the CEO of Regional Facilities Auckland John Brockies with Calum's concerns and my own having watched Youtube,” she says.
“After a discussion with BDO organisers this group will no longer be appearing in BDO in NZ.”
As quoted at GayNZ.
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A legal solution would require someone with standing to take a case. Which can only be the BDO. Who have already clearly decided that its not worth their while to fight it.
Why would it have to be Big Day Out? After all, it isn't just Big Day Out who've (assuming that Coney's actions are unlawful) had their free speech rights curtailed.
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Sadly, there seems to be very little we an do legally about such well-meaning dickery.
(I am kind of curious as to the legal position. It would seem to me that Beggs is pretty on point here. ( Baigent too I guess.) And that would appear to suggest that there should be legal recourse available.)
Non-legally, I would suggest one pretty easy thing is for to people write to the Council and Ms Coney and let them know that her actions are not acceptable. (If you live in her ward, think about mentioning the fact that you'll remember this when it comes to local body elections.)
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Is there anything that can be done now about this? Because I think that it is actually very very problematic that Coney has taken these steps.
I have sent an OIA request off to the Council asking for the reasons for the decision, and for the correspondence --- I am really curious to find out what they say.
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The morality and quality of Odd Future's music is a bit beside the point (although I am pretty sure I could make a limited defense of both.)
Surely the hugely creepy thing is Coney's ability to engage in censorship without any process being followed, any natural justice, any ability for people being affected by the decision to have input, etc. etc.
Bennachie is someone it would not be incorrect to say is professionally angry. I think it is massively concerning that the receipt of an email from a full time paid lobbyist, who is committed to working to restrict freedom of speech in New Zealand, is enough to get artistic speech censored.
What Coney did is barely better than book burning.