Posts by Euan Mason
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Just out of interest, here is the link to an Australian study that suggests ~ 40% of pokie revenue comes from gambling addicts, even though they form only a small percentage of the gambling population. This appears to be the study used by the Problem Gambling Foundation.
http://www.pc.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/95691/08-chapter5.pdf
Fascinating discussion here, and great post, Russell. I agree that the parties' responses are different, and I'm appalled at the deal with SkyCity.
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Hard News: Media3: Panic or Peril?, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
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Just the facts…
We’re from the Government,
we’d like to help…Yeah, my Mum sheepishly produced the "Sex and the adolescent boy" pamphlet when I was in my late teens. I appreciated the thought and care behind the gesture, and it was very funny to read the government's take on a what I'd known for the best part of a decade.
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What a great pity her unbelievably nasty policies didn't die with her.
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Completely agree. The irony is that this government is probably history for this and other reasons like privatisation of our assets. It failed to appreciate that Rio Tinto handed it a golden opportunity to back away from privatisation, which is one of its most unpopular policies. By standing up to a multinational it could have won the next election, even with increases in tax for the rich that would have been required to make up for lost asset sales revenue.
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Done
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"Personally, I’m more interested in the fact that a pretty stale orthodoxy in the format of TV current affairs is being shaken up a little than that some of those attempts at shaking up haven’t immediately worked out."
Yes, but Seven Sharp is a new low.
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Hard News: Photoshocks, in reply to David Hood,
I cited the disqualified winner of the 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest
National Geographic has an interesting policy and an understandable aversion to image manipulation that creates unreal images, but I think it has to change somewhat. NG bought and published this image which is as it came out of the camera, but did want this one even though the latter required far more talent to produce than the former. The latter image wasn't even considered because in order to show that level of detail from the nebula 60 images were needed, with various images at different exposures and with unsharp masking to bring out the dust clouds. It seems manipulation of camera settings is ok, but manipulation post camera is not, even if everything in the image is real.
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I agree with all of you, but how do we fix it? I can't see the Nats & ACT doing anything worthwhile in broadcasting because it would violate their religious devotion to the invisible hand of the market. Have Labour or the Greens got any viable solutions?
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If Americans want to see what their international status will be later this century, then they should look at Britain. Both empires have been stifled by costly wars and somewhat irrational realpolitik, accompanied by an erosion of their core values.
I find myself strangely sad. I guess it was comforting that the global superpower spoke the same language as me. No I'm not referring to English, but to the the language of human rights, opportunity, decency and democracy. It has been startling to see its departure from those values in recent years.
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I should have added (5) one of many wives with no husbands or (6) married with a sole wife, and in either case I'd have fewer worries than in cases 2 and 4.