Posts by Lyndon Hood
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Just in: Contains crime policy, public perception, online poll, McVicar
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1106/S00247/poll-shows-government-out-of-touch-with-voters.htm -
So, essentially, the thing that reversed the steady rise in the proportion of offenders being sentenced to imprisonment was the introduction of home and community detention and intensive supervision...
Yet the minsiter insists, to the point of personally abusing Kim Workman, that a slight drop in prison numbers can only be due to a decreased reoffending rate (though she declines to offer any direct evidence).
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while you make them a nice cup of tea.
Vaguely related, there’s a lovely bit in the Mark Steel lecture on Thomas Paine riffing the idea of illicit tea smuggling, mostly based around what un-tea-drinker-like behaviour it would be.
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If whoever wrote the minister's press release gets their hands on the idea it might end up called the New Zealand Mediums Archive:
National Library documenting quake and recovery... though it does also have a link to Ross Becker's photos from the Red Zone
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I'd like to see journos ask about why the 'church' have had funding applications for their programmes turned down
On morning report Lewis maintained he hadn't the faintest.
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Acting silly for no apparent reason.
Can't resist pointing out I'm doing an improv show in Auckland this week.
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AFAI can tell this would make lawyergram demands for settlements less likely, as it provides a non-lawsuit dispute process.
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If you haven't got there Toby Manhire for the Listener has a good roundup that also quotes the attempted twitter schooling of Tau Henare, but it's worth it just for the opening line.
Like some kind of ghastly bubonic Tetris, Twitter feeds in New Zealand were last night raining little black boxes.
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Just quickly: http://www.pmcsa.org.nz/ on evidence and policy formation.
The PM noted this was coming out and opined it might have an impact on ‘advice’. As opposed, presumably, to policy.
[And the press release]
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Bill English in the general debate seems to be casting it as part of the long term rebalancing act.
(Add: so a bit more sympathy from me with those who think Key and English aren't on the same page here)