Posts by Sacha
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Heh. Especially that last line:
Kate Wilkinson is Minister of Conservation.
Is this gubmint already at Sarah Palin levels of self-satire?
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Seems as good a place as any. Heh. The Aucklander has unearthed information about the region's new CCOs exerting their new powers including exporting water and charging for cemetary visits. Unfortunately it's only mildly satirical. (h/t @librarykris)
Says Mr Bedar, "Some Aucklanders may be surprised at the extent of the intrusions that the Government, and its agents, are claiming under the guise of reforming local councils.
"It is also fair to point out that all the community spokespeople — including media such as The Aucklander, the NZ Herald, and smaller suburban newspapers — have voiced their concerns about the process of reforming local government and removing everyday people's voices from the equation.
"However, the Government continues to ride high in the polls. An independent observer can only assume that Aucklanders don't care what's going to happen, or they're happy to accept whatever John Key and Rodney Hide and Steven Joyce say is good for them."
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How about a holographic weta then?
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For keen trainspotters, Pundit has a detailed and even-handed discussion of the Canterbury situation, including illuminating posts from ex-staff.
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Idiot/Savant has some links for that earlier post of mine about Canterbury democracy being traded for dairy profits.
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Auckland City Council's C&R majority have just approved a policy not to reduce the number of pokie machines as is done in neighbouring Manukau and Waitakere cities. Why, you ask (my emphasis added)?
A draft released last year attracted 3853 submissions, including 3690 postcards and pro forma submissions co-ordinated by problem gambling groups against the proposal to allow transfers to new venues.
But the councillor who chaired the panel that heard submissions, Paul Goldsmith, said the proposal was supported by a majority of community groups who depend on pokie funding, including the Cancer Society, St John Ambulance, Surf Life Saving and the Auckland Theatre Company.
"They are obviously weighing up that dilemma - is this a legitimate source of funds? - and know that if you turn this tap off people will still gamble online or in other places and nothing gets back to the community.
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Canterbury's corporate farmers were consulted about replacing the elected regional council that regulated their resource consents, if you want a topical local example.
Four of the just-sacked Ecan councillors were ruled on audit to have voted illegally because of their conflicting interests. Creech is a director of a polluting dairy company with convictions for resource violations.
Oh, and it seems at least one Minister voting on the bill currently in Parliament has an interest in affected water rights (h/t Idiot/Savant) - but then this government seems pretty relaxed about such conflicts.
Oh look, beneficiaries
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Farrar is suggesting a giant weta - Facebook group here. Sounds much betterer, to me.
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Calling things 'art' when they were not made as works of art is an unwitting form of cultural appropriation
When the university has a specialised department of Taonga Studies (or more accurately, Toi studies), let's revisit your argument.
Until then, it's just perverse when all societies have practices that perform similar functions to the one you've chosen to latch onto and deify. Aint multiculturalism a bitch.
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the basic assumption is that every single person who comes through the door is trying to rip them off.
That's the culture of disability support services, and increasingly ACC it seems. Spend more money saying no than it would cost to say yes.
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