Posts by Peter Cresswell

  • Hard News: Radio Punks: So many stories,

    Remember late 70s just after “Bosom” became “B” (sorry, “b”) when the four weeks of short daily broadcasts over weak radio across orientation weeks was one of the few musical missionaries that made life in South Auckland bearable.
    Libraries, of course, were another one (and Barry Jenkin, and Bryan Staff’s NZ 1/4 hour).
    Listened to the b right up until leaving for London in 1990. But for me, too much bloody dance music by the time I’d returned in 1995, so eventually turned off. Still, I spent a couple of years wondering why Bill Ralston was delivering news commentary on student radio. Didn't seem right.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 27 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Circumstance and coincidence,

    Small correction: British High Commissioner Vicki Treadell

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 27 posts Report Reply

  • Island Life: On the waterfront,

    "__Click the little picture to get a larger version and__ . . ." realise that this project and "human scale" live in different parts of the city.

    I fear that Don Christie is right.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 27 posts Report Reply

  • Field Theory: One man with 18 feeds,

    Even one man with eighteen feeds should surely have noticed a Grand Final over in Melbourne at which 100,012 spectators showed up and shouted themselves hoarse?

    Shame the wrong team won this year's AFL Grand Final. :-/

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 27 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: The Policeman at the Dinner Table,

    Yes, very good Tim. I obviously needed more coffee.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 27 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: The Policeman at the Dinner Table,

    "In any case, the vast majority of people on the DPB are paid to support kids that they already have, not to have new ones."

    No, they're paid for both.

    And in answer to Michael, who says, "__if Peter is going to imagine the benefits of the poor not being "paid to breed", I'm going to imagine the violence of the desperate and starving which will counter it__," might I point out that there's no need for either violence, desperation or starving to accompany the end of the DPB.

    All that's needed is the simple statement that no new DPB recipients will be accepted after six months, and that the DPB itself will cease once the children of all existing recipients reach school age.

    That shouldn't be so hard, should it?

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 27 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: The Policeman at the Dinner Table,

    "BTW, are you, or anyone you respect getting some of that Working for Families gravy?"

    No. Are you?

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 27 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: The Policeman at the Dinner Table,

    Michael, do you even have any idea of what so called "rampant Randism" would look like?

    And might I point out that the chief victims of your "systemic disadvantage" were the the children of parents who were paid to have them, and who then went on to kill them.

    How about that "systemic failure," huh?

    And speaking of elephants in the room, how about the one addressed in this press release, currently number on reading at Scoop: 'Welfare and Violence - The Elephant In The Room'

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 27 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: The Policeman at the Dinner Table,

    Michael, do you even have any idea of what so called "rampant Randism" would look like?

    And might I point out that the chief victims of your "systemic disadvantage" were the the children of parents who were paid to have them, and who then went on to kill them.

    How about that "systemic failure," huh?

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 27 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: The Policeman at the Dinner Table,

    Matthew, you ask, "What needs to change that would have prevented this latest tragedy?"

    Well, read my response. You don't expect to be spoon-fed, do you? ;^)

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 27 posts Report Reply

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