Posts by Ross Mason
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From Stuff
Screen Production and Development Association chief executive Penelope Borland said it would start negotiating with Actors' Equity on minimum terms and conditions for actors.
Warm fuzzies. Ain't it great. We're all winners and grinners.
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Hobbit Amendment Act
HAA haa haa haa!! Nah nah nah nah yah.
I remember the cries of anguish from the (any) NZ Gummint over countries (eg USA) we export to having subsidies (arghhhh...sound of choking on the word) put in place to protect their (eg) beef farmers.
Hmmm...whats the difference between Hobbit tax break and a US beef subsidy. From over here? Not a lot. And here we have the Free Market playing the game that totally abhors them. Sheesh. Goosed and Gandered.
From NY Times
After meeting in Wellington with Hollywood studio executives, New Zealand officials including the prime minister agreed to an extraordinary deal under which they will contribute special financing and introduce labor legislation to keep Warner Brothers’ and the filmmaker Peter Jackson’s two movies based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” from slipping off to another country.
Extraordinary...but writ from a kiwi source. Can't spell labour but. SubEds.... phooey.
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Hey Jackie. Meant to ask. Crown Lynn Clark?
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Are we at the record yet?????
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And, of course, AE's mess has managed to shaft the taxpayer (concessions), but the CTU's campaigns for teacher pay and the opposition to the 90-day at-will sacking law. But, hey, I'm informed it was worth it so some people could express their feelings...
Dead right there. Nothing like laying a bit of groundwork for the next hit at the teachers. Joe Public will then see all unions as heretics and oblige our Lords and Masters with cheering, the stacking of wood and waving of torches.
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So we wait. Tomorrow Parliament will have to interupt one dictatorial piece of legislation being pushed through the house (RWC) to begin "dialogue" about the new superduper dictatorial labour laws for movie employees.... er.... contractors.... er.... employees.........contracting employees....I wonder what unforeseen fuckcluster will emerge over the next few years from what we get tomorrow. It will certainly not be "considered" legislation....again
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We are chasing the market of people who watch the extra content on DVDs. The all important have-no-life demographic.
When the US mid term are over we will be inundated with Teaparty Tourists who will have watched them.
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Cue the left wing outrage.
Jesus Pat. So we won't hear you the next time Labour spends some of the hard earned taxpayers money on what the right would call "frivolous" activities then eh?
That was my left toe outrage.
Thanks Pat for the input. Now its a done deal you're off. Got some more timelines to keep current?
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Turkeys??? They were going to be the national bird of Yhese United States......what a shame it wasn't adopted...
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From Parihaka Wiki:
Many of the prisoners had already been in jail for 13 months when, in July 1880, the next Native Minister, John Bryce, introduced a Bill designed to postpone their trial indefinitely. Bryce, who prided himself on plain talk, told Parliament it was "a farce to talk of trying these prisoners for the offences for which they were charged ... if they had been convicted in all probability they would not have got more than 24 hours' imprisonment. In the Bill we drop that provision in regard to the trial altogether."[3] The new legislation declared that all those in jail were now deemed to have been lawfully arrested and to be in lawful custody and decreed that "no Court, Judge, Justices of the Peace or other person shall during the continuance of this Act discharge, bail or liberate the said Natives".
Hmm...NZ governments had lots of time to practice....