Posts by Alastair Jamieson
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We fund tertiary education because a well-educated workforce strengthens the economy and pays more taxes – it’s an investment.
And here's me thinking that we fund tertiary education because well-educated people can make the most of their talents for the betterment of themselves, their families and society as a whole.
I suggest that until we reframe the argument the minutiae of student loan arrangements are the least of our worries. -
...and speak the way New Zealanders used to on TV – the metallic local twang glossed with the plum that always came out for the cameras.
One of the incongruities with "Underbelly Land Of The Long Green Cloud" is the characters all speak with modern Kiwi accents, not what I remember accents sounding like in the 1970's at all.
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Yup, that's damned interesting.
Also, via the same source as that piece (@aphotoeditor), there's this little nugget quoted from the reliably interesting Utne Reader:
in 1980 there were .45 PR people and .36 journalists per every 100,000 workers. As of 2008, that number had shifted radically. There are now .90 PR people per 100,000 workers and just .25 journalists.
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Here’s an interesting take that I think is just as relevant to future journalists and other media content producers as it is to photographers:
The Future Of Photography Is In The Photographer Not The Photograph -
Not much into nationalism, but NZ's stance on nuclear weapons and indeed David Lange’s Oxford Union Speech are two of the rare things that give me a strong sense of national pride.
Thanks for the mp3 Russell! -
Like many others I fondly remember DKD (especially their epic chocolate cake!), but it always seems to me that Millers was first off the block. Both the websites state they started in 1984 (my 1st year at University), but can anyone here shed light on which was first?
I also remember drinking a lot of late night coffee at 'Just Desserts' in a building accessed off the stairs in Khartoum Place, but they served filter coffee so may not really count for the purposes of this thread...
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Hard News: Floating the idea, in reply to Islander,
Oh, and here's a bigger version.
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Hard News: Floating the idea, in reply to Islander,
Blast – here, hopefully this link will stick.
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I also love this evocative photo including a fairly unmodified Mission Bay beach in 1860.
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Hard News: Floating the idea, in reply to Russell Brown,
To clarify, I wasn't referring to Pt Chevalier as a location where a sandy beach never existed - here it is looking sandy (and grainy) in 1940.