Posts by Sacha
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De-munged Minchin (nsfw after about the first 75 seconds, banal beforehand):
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I'd say greed and powerlust may be closer..
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Lordy, what did you do - sup an ale too loudly?
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I mean the motivation is less likely to be fear.
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I hate fancy dress
Never been into wearing it, but enjoy talking about it and watching others participate in it. Having said which I'm likely to be too tired to make it tomorrow no matter what I'm wearing. We'll see.
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do we have to wear something that identifies us as visitors to the city?
Some visual representation of a stiff breeze?
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Paul, I enjoyed the witty conversation about costumes, but I had to note the difference in tone compared with your earlier complaints about threadjacking.
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At least the current crop seem more.. ambitous.
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In current Mayoral news, Bernard Orsman reports:
Mr Banks yesterday said he was quietly confident a sound and sensible proposal could be found to convince the Government to strengthen grassroots democracy before legislation was introduced to Parliament.
"What we can't do is to try and reinvent the wheel that was in place with the royal commission proposal [for six local councils] in any shape or form.
"It's my view that the Government is not in a position to be pushed back."
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Rudman's story also outlines some of the tussling over the years featuring current Mayors in leading roles. The ex-Mayor of bustling metropolis Queenstown even gets a mention:
It's forgotten now, but if we'd stuck with the model the Local Government Commission proposed in 1989 we mightn't be going through the current upheavals.
The commissioners resisted the solitary Auckland council model now being proposed in favour of four big cities and three satellite districts, arguing Auckland could get the unity required on big issues with a strong regional council.
National's Local Government Minister Warren Cooper feared a strong Auckland, and emasculated the proposed strong regional council.
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