Posts by Russell Brown
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Oh, the Herald's pre-emptive strike on MMP is really underway now:
Doubtless the discontent would be no more serious now if power went to the second and third parties past the post. But it is clearly not what most voters want or believe should happen. Around 80 per cent of them vote National or Labour and when they go to the polling booth they believe they are choosing a Government. If their party is beaten at the ballot box they accept it is fair and square. Parties trifle with that result at their peril.
It's a fairly astonishing piece of work which appears to suggest that Labour should decline to form a government, even if it has the numbers, because that wouldn't be fair.
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Well, ballocks, Russell. I know Duncan Garner doesn't actually like subtleties unless they're covered in melted cheese, but what does "if possible" mean.
Those were my words -- I meant "if there are enough votes to attempt to form a government and there's no real showstopping reason not to".
Why do we just repeal the whole fucking Electoral Act and subcontract the selection of Parliament to pollsters and the all-seeing brown eye of the Fourth Estate?
I don't think it has anything to do with the press, really. The Greens ruled out a coalition with National and expressed a desire to coalesce with Labour. They've made their intentions admirably clear.
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WRT to the NZFirst decision, does this mean that Key can form a coalition with them now? I seem to remember an "out" clause in his original statement seeming to rule on that option.
I'd love to be a party to the phone call where Key asked him for coalition support ...
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If this is an example of how they are going to govern ...
Well, yeah. Given the way they've also explicitly politicised the Super Fund, I'd think some National voters might be concerned too.
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And seems rather unclear on the notion that Labour and the Greens are actually two different parties, and Labour would be exceedingly foolish to take the Greens for granted.
Given that the Greens have ruled out a coalition with National and expressed a desire to support a Labour government if possible, I don't think anyone's being overly presumptuous.
The Maori Party is a different matter of course.
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Could never happen today.
Meanwhile, an OECD survey showsthat wage-earners' share of [national income] in all developed countries, [has fallen] on average from around 67 per cent ... in 1976 to 57 per cent in 2006.
And the gap is worse in New Zealand than most other places -- notably, Australia. It's called labour market flexibility, and people seem to leave the country to avoid it.
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Righto. I'll get on to the podcast issue and see what I can do.
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The Newsmash needs a warning that it contains Russell singing the opening line of The Greatest Love of All. HALP!
Evil, huh?
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@robbery
not knowing enough about how it all works for tv but for film and short film you're paid and sign a release contract, and that's it, you don't have any rights or involvement after that. as far as I know that's how it is. none of this actors have control thing, unless they negotiated that into their contract, which is highly unusual and you have to have star power to ask for it, then its not in the picture.
As Brenda said, contracts vary enormously, and although you might not believe it, it is precisely these kinds of issues that continue to keep the likes of The Governor and Gloss off our TV screens.
Believe me, TVNZ 6 would love to screen Gloss, but it's a contractual nightmare -- one actor has a residual clause that runs into the high six figures, which just isn't viable for anyone.
On Screen's non-commercial standing helped get around some of the issues, but it's still a messy business.
But please Rob, perhaps you could accept that people have worked really hard in all good faith to bring people the material that's on the site now, and the content that will be added every week.
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Are the contracts for TV programmes being funded from now on being amended to allow for movement onto nzonscreen automatically? After a certain period of time for example?
That would require an amendment to the Broadcasting Act, which is NZ On Air's enabling legislation.
I imagine it would be tricky in the case of independent producers, because you're talking about them being required to relinquish concepts they've developed themselves.
It would be much easier in the case of, say, National Film Unit material, to place public heritage works under a Creative Commons licence, but even then you have to acknowledge the rights of stakeholders, such as Maori who want control over their images. That's very much an issue with one important body of work NZ On Screen has had access to.
As Brenda says, it all takes time and personal contact. But this is a long-term project -- who knows how things might be in five or 10 years?
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