Posts by Hilary Stace
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Listened to the Mahler live at the Michael Fowler Centre tonight as the NZ Festival of the Arts opener, on RNZ Concert. You couldn't replace that with something automated or interrupted by ads.
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Anne Tolley will be available to talk to you 'about how National Standards will help your child' at 10 am Tuesday 9 March at list MP Katrina Shanks' office in Broderick Road, Johnsonville, if any Wellingtonians are interested.
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Sorry, quiz time cancelled for the rest of the week. Your questions are too difficult and embarrassing. We are in a hurry to dismantle your accident compensation instead.
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Danyl, if Prime Minister Peter and his wife Janet Fraser et al were still alive they would argue strongly for ongoing government support of the arts. The NZSO, the RNZ Ballet, public art galleries and public radio and such like were started (or nationalised) by the first Labour government, so that they would be accessible to everyone, not just the elite. They also knew the government support of an arts industry would be economically sensible in providing training and employment for New Zealanders. I would suggest that our creative industries today would not exist without this history.
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Ad free night classes, national parks, libraries, water, home care for elderly citizens
How are they important to the nation? As Helen C said recently, some things are more important than money.
I'm still waiting for somebody to convince me that anything needs doing at all. I want to expand public services, not reduce them. It seems that we have run out of money, except for tax cuts and funding private schools.
Well said, Giovanni.
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More here. Not that I particularly support Brendon Burns but I agree with others that this is the beginning of one of the major battles of the next several decades and I want the politicians to be on to it. While driving through Canterbury last year I was shocked at the huge size of those private irrigators taking our national natural resource just for their own profit.
Raj Patel mentions the lack of value given to water and wasteful use of it in agriculture in his latest book 'The Value of Nothing' and how industrial agriculture may lead to cheap food now but we will all pay for it eventually.
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Brendon Burns has done several posts on Red Alert such as this latest one on Key's latest comments on speeding up consents for Canterbury water. He doesn't seem to have copied them to his blog.
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Sometimes it's like liberals seem bent on doing the work of the Right for them.
And everything else Giovanni said too. It's about values and principles, not about whether a thin wedge here or there is OK because I personally don't need/use it.
When my son was about 4 or 5 a special interest for many months was the concert programme (before FM) which made him happy and calm. I'm sure it has a similar affect on many citizens.
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I have heard that Victoria University aspires to be 'the critic and conscience of society'.
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Kelvin Davis has started dissecting the report and here are his comments on the top 5% and Gifted and Talented and from his experience they are not the same cohort.