Posts by Steve Curtis
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So let me get this right Craig - and dont call me darling- you seem to have a timeline of poor Zac Guilfords humiliation at your fingertips. The cell he _was_ in ??
All the better to wax on the unfairness of it all. Have you ever heard off the off switch?
Im surprised you didnt prick up your ears at the Herald story on a recent murder accused ( who days ago pleaded guilty) where Jared Savage tailed the suspect to various addresses. Concern trolling the neighbours ? When will the intrusions end for murderers.
Its hardly surprising that Granny Herald, like Snow White ,has drifted
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I have only ever noticed complaints about 'losers' getting back in when its a labour MP who was an electorate MP and then "Nekk Minnit"
No blips on the radar over Chris Auchinvole who lost the West Coast Tasman seat seems to suggest which side is complaining the most
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Brad Guilford- Sienna Miller - Yeah, I see the concurrency in that one. Some one needs a reality check about what private means. Running naked through a bar and the rest sort of does draw attention to yourself -a bit like a photo op gone wrong.
As for the brain fade du jour- making a privilege complaint to the Speaker afterwards and calling the police...... mmmm who's running to mummy ?
If you had read the story from the journalist who made the tape, you would discover that she hadn't given the details to Richardson and apologised profusely to Palmer.
He had replied that the 'office of PM could withstand these storms in a teacup' and not to worry.Quite a contrast dont you think ?
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Ranapia seems to forget that the accidentally recorded conversation of a Prime Minister was put in the public domain- but the PM was Geoffrey Palmer and the means ,not the HoS but Ruth Richardson in parliament.
It seems that the National party crossed that bridge a long time ago.
As for comparing our local rags to Britains 'scum tabloids' here is Sienna Miller telling of her experience-“For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily” the actress said. “Spat at, verbally abused”. She added that it often happened that she would have to run from the reporters at midnight, on dark alleys. “And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal”
Just like the scum tabloids - yeah right
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I have heard that for polling places with 6 or less votes cast, the results aren't released so that anonymity can be preserved . Is this true ?
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Hard News: Last Words, in reply to Sarah King,
"National standards" only applies to primary/intermediate schools.
High schools can do their own thing until the pupil starts NCEA which is a form of standardisation
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any journalists carrying bottles of water with them or on their desk need to be careful the police dont immediately see that as a potential 'molotov cocktail', after all keeping records of Keys bland words is a serious crime and the first step to overthrowing the state
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Looking more closely at MMP in Germany, its a far more complicated beast than the MMP we use in NZ.
The first postwar election there doesnt seem to have been two votes, if you voted for a person , you voted for their party as well. This continued in some lander up until 2010.
Bavaria uses regional party lists for the second vote but your 2nd vote is for a person on that list.
Baden Wurttemburg doesnt have lists at all for the second vote, but uses a best near winner over the 4 regions of the state, which choses the highest polling electorate candidate of a particular party who didnt win.
That is if you were the highest polling ACT candidate who didnt win you would get in on the party 'list' behind any ACT candidate who won an electorate - I think ? -
Legal Beagle: Referendum Fact Check #6:…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
The NAZIS came in via a preferential system.
Nope. Proportional. The change after the war was to introduce electorates (and the new threshold, I think)
The Nazis also had the support of "the 1%" which seems to been enough on top of the 33% they got in the Nov 32 election to make Hitler the Chancellor after some manoeuvring .
The voting system of the time seemed to be based on proportional by regions , or wahlkreise, rather than smaller electorates -
I dont see how Gordon Mclaughins comment that Gillard is only there because of the voting system can possibly pass muster.
A quick check of wikipedia gives labour 50.12% and Liberal National coalition 49.88%. These are a strange beast called two party preferred totals
You would very much hope that the party with the largest share of the votes gets to form a government. So Julia wins on that basis.
What their voting system did do is NOT give them a majority of the MPs. However Julia again won the support of a majority of independent MpsAgain if you look at the official AEC figures for 'first preference votes' you get Labour with 38% and the Greens 11.76% to give 49.7% and on the other side Liberals and the Nationals got 43.3% in total well short of the left side.
Labour and the Greens arent in a formal coalition but its the only way to play it.Could Gordan have got his information from preliminary two party preferred vote from the first few days after the election, which did give Abbott the edge. The more exhaustive recheck with postal votes counted only comes out after some weeks and gave the result above.