Posts by Sacha
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by making good scientific arguments
Steven, I think that approach would only work for people who respect a certain type of fact.
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And both necks such a fetching shade of red, Mark.
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Roger, any links for that from Hide? It fits with others dismissing calls for them to meekly "submit" to a select committee provcess with little prospect of success.
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Ta, Jake. Metanui. Love it.
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Ta, Roger. Oram's analysis about the fundamental differences between what the Commission proposed and what the Government has countered with is spot on and well worth a read.
Thus the local councils would be a new type of representative body, one which operates within a larger local authority and which provides services and acts as an advocate for residents, ratepayers and communities of their areas, the commissioners said.
They would be a vast improvement on existing community boards. They would have real powers and, through new ways of engaging with communities, they would represent local people more effectively within the regional governance system.
The failures of existing community boards were well documented in submissions to the commission and in its own research.
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Instead, the commission decided that six new-style local councils would be more effective and efficient. Moreover, they would retain a lot of the local knowledge, institutional memory and expertise in the existing city and district councils. Greater fragmentation into say 20 community boards would cause much of that to be lost.
To work well, this new model of shared governance within the region would require a new relationship of shared governance between the region and central government.
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Ah, yes. Lid lifted on some of the personality politics.
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sending my cousin Vito over
Seconded - stocks can't be that limited, surely?
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Indeed, where to start. What a compendium of breathless blathering. And get that man some knee pads.
liable to capture by odd people, agenda people, high-and-mighty people, people who seemed to answer to no particular constituency, people too happy with our dough.
Sound like anyone we know?
Strangely, there is no screaming.
Doesn't matter when this story was filed, you'd have to be in a hermetically sealed cave not to have noticed dissent - unless you didn't want to, of course. Hey, it worked for Bush.
Sharples believes this means Maori will miss out on representation. But times have changed. Maori are doing it for themselves now. The Maori Party is a major presence in Parliament. The United States has elected an African-American president. Maori, now, might have to get organised for themselves.
Tosser. Councils already have scant Maori representation - that's not a matter of anyone's "belief". Maori have been doing it for themselves since Holmes's pissy ancestors were still marking "here be dragons" on maps. The Maori Party only exists because of the Maori seats - and why should anyone need to remind such an overpaid journo of that?
Already, Rodney fears a loss of power in its bustling capital, Orewa.
Has this man even read the report? Still, let's not asume that idiocy is any impediment to either media presence or standing for high office.
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Damn you, Christie, we were so close. :)
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Catering competition got up priestly noses, perhaps. Who wants a wafer when the other guy is offerning tuna sammies?
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