Posts by stephen walker
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Hard News: It's not funny because it's…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Steve, after seeing that excerpt, there's no way i'd open the pdf.in the space of a couple of decades, nz society has been reduced to the level of half-cut pub banter that someone is paid to produce...
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Hard News: Unwarranted risk, in reply to Russell Brown,
that blog post is six days old. why haven't Auckland Councilors put up a resolution demanding that ACIL and POAL comply with their obligation under the Local Government Act 2002? the only sacking that needs to be done is by Auckland Council of non-complying ACIL directors.
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Field Theory: When last you saw me,
candid nature
yes. Graham Henry has always been like that. when not speaking "on the record". self-deprecating. cut to the chase. that's his style. even when talking to a small group of third-formers in a PE swimming period on a cold morning in March. three or so decades ago. funny the things one remembers.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Joe Wylie,
just about fell off my chair laughing at that one, Joe. kind of like the way my father used to laugh.
p.s. would love to see Te Rerenga Wairua sometime. maybe the powers that be can organise a mini-festival of NZ animated films to tour Japan. big screen, loud speakers. that's what the film deserves.
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Hard News: #BDOMemories, in reply to Jonathan Ganley,
thanks for putting up that poster. i was too young to go to Mainstreet (R20), and i had no idea who New Order were (but was about to find out in a couple of months time). but i remember those posters plastered in a row on a building site fence up Khyber Pass. i looked at those posters through the bus window many times, wondering what it all meant...
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Hard News: It was a munted year, in reply to Sacha,
10% compounded pay rise p.a.
off a very low base, of course.
the deserving 1% then. -
Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
so with no threshold ALCP would have got one seat?
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
recommend removing the "one seat rule" and may well also recommend lowering the 5% threshold.
yes, that would be good. getting rid of the "one-electorate-seat exemption" and halving the 5% threshold to 2.5% is the way to make things fairer and encourage more people to vote, imho.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
0.6% of the total vote counted would have been 13,544.
UF got 13,443 party votes.