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				<title>That&#039;s my cab</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:04:00 +1200</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>David Slack</dc:creator>
				<author>David Slack</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[The front page of the New Zealand Herald this morning honours the memory of George Bernard Shaw. Unable, it seems, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation, it offers us a long, loving description of Chris Carter’s pink shopping bike and many photos of Shane Jones’ banana seat. You want a Labour government scandal? Here’s a scandal. In the first decade of the new millennium, New Zealanders pretended their houses had become worth twice as much as they were, and borrowed 100 billion to make it true. Now they owe that much to the world’s banks,…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>Burning Down the House.</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:19:00 +1200</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>David Slack</dc:creator>
				<author>David Slack</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[I can be careless and I can be hasty and that gets me into trouble from time to time, but today I broke new ground by setting our house on fire. There is a two-storey house behind ours. It is grand in its own way, and a spectacle; its walls of Sydney sandstone blocks arrived here as sailing ship ballast, and the cracks in their grouting are quite large enough to easily wedge in a paperback. Nonetheless, spectacle or not, who wants to look at a wall? It was shielded by a long stand of bamboo when we moved in…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>Everyone loves a quiz.</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:57:00 +1300</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>David Slack</dc:creator>
				<author>David Slack</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[You have three minutes. 1. Complete the sentence: "If Radio NZ sounded like Kiwiblog…" 2. You are at Showgirls and you have a ministerial credit card in your pocket.  Should you pay by the glass or get a whole bottle? 3. You have 30 dollars' worth of mining shares and you are the minister of foreign affairs in a cabinet that wants to dig up the National Parks for unobtanium. What will your statue look like? 4. What does our Prime Minister mean when he says: ''I'm going to Maui, where are you going?'' 5. You are a political party.…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>Anyone can do design.</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:29:00 +1300</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>David Slack</dc:creator>
				<author>David Slack</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[Continuing today's open mic theme, I'd like to also introduce  a designer friend of mine, Fraser Gardyne. His chosen topic: the logo competition they've just cooked up for the Auckland Super City. Personally I'm uneasy about the diversionary bread and circus dimension to the thing, but his objection is professional. ........ If the council is expecting graphic design to be the product of a public competition from folk from all walks of life, then why not apply the same concept to other public works? Let’s have the public design carparks and road networks etc? Could it be because those works…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>So, what do you think of New Zealand so far?</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:12:00 +1300</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>David Slack</dc:creator>
				<author>David Slack</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[I don't care to be railroaded. The Auckland landscape is littered with the debris of last-minute plans. Nonetheless, Graeme Osborne, who is the chief executive of Tourism Auckland, has given me pause for thought with some rather dismal pictures. Let us begin with the slide show, and his commentary.      This, Graeme says,  is how we handle their baggage.     And this is how we process them.     So, what do you think of New Zealand so far?  He has an argument to make. I remain leery of spoiling a grand opportunity through haste, but I'm happy to give him a platform. I…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>What I saw at the step change.</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:36:00 +1300</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>David Slack</dc:creator>
				<author>David Slack</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister was giving me the hard sell about his plans for transforming the New Zealand economy - a "Step Change" no less - when my phone rang. It was a client, on the line from Texas. I exported him a fresh copy of his speech and turned the sound back up. I may have missed a spellbinding moment, but I suspect not. Baby Steps In between breathless stories about the resuscitation of the breathless property market, most notably in the Sunday Property Times and the Herald on Veitch-Day,  the mantra has been rising: New Zealand's economy will remain…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>The World Is Full of Cu*ts</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:09:00 +1300</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>David Slack</dc:creator>
				<author>David Slack</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[I can't say I'm surprised to hear that Brian Tamaki doesn't like people using the word cu*t.  In my last conversation with him, I used a pithy exclamation to  express my surprise at a story he was relating. I could have said to him: No way! I might have just as likely said: You're kidding! Or: Crikey! As it happened - and because I am ill-mannered, uncouth, and from rural Manawatu - I said to him: Shit! Which really means: My word, Bishop! Do go on. But he did not go on. Rather, he stopped mid-sentence and stared at me.…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>I Am Drinking Again</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:43:00 +1200</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>David Slack</dc:creator>
				<author>David Slack</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[Peter Calder knows how to review a meal without being the slightest bit pretentious. So does Simon Wilson. I am sitting at a long table in Clooneys about to begin a whisky degustation and I am thinking to myself "Whatever I write about this, I intend to make it as interesting and unpretentious as Peter Calder or Simon Wilson would."  So I turn to the diner on my right and ask: "So, Simon, what do you think of it so far?" I know he has already found it amusing because his greeting was something like: "So, what was it? They…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>On the waterfront</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:30:00 +1200</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>David Slack</dc:creator>
				<author>David Slack</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[Here are three lessons you learn the hard way in Auckland: 1. No matter how sunny it is right now, it will start to rain on your party ten minutes after you move everyone outside. 2. The cost of your building project will be double. Whatever they told you, double it. 3. If the ferry for Devonport is leaving in one minute, the lights will keep you stranded on the far side of Quay Street for two. I have changed my mind about Party Central. I had misgivings: a good opportunity likely to be squandered, a lot of money wasted.…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>There is no alternative</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:31:00 +1200</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>David Slack</dc:creator>
				<author>David Slack</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[ If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog," said National Lampoon. I thought of that cover when I picked up this morning's paper. One by one they appear: the halt, the sick, the lame, and all with the same sad tale: "the Government has cut off our money." You need money for therapists to treat your special needs children? Sorry we're all out of it. You need help to get a qualification and move off the benefit? Sorry: we're strapped. The implicit proposition in any of these cuts is: "we really don't want to do this, but we…]]></description>
				
				
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