Posts by Sacha
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The negative impacts on trade and our role in international diplomacy (beyond just climate too) would be significant if we were to jump out of Kyoto
And I am with you Gareth in hoping professional advisors make that point. Inviting punitive trade tariffs just doesn't seem like a smart economic move.
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Some good context by Finlay McDonald about his generation taking charge (woohoo - url working already):
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sundaystartimes/4761334a22678.html
How the times shaped us as we grew to adulthood and now take our turn at the tiller isn't a science, but it might help explain the priorities, values and blind spots we bring with us to that moment.
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Smart move, having reviews chaired by the private sector so they can be blamed for unpopular decisions.
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"privatise the air" - let's not give Rodney any ideas.
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Yay. Welcome back Keith. I can see "ardent for New Zealand" catching on - in some circles..
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See what you mean about the difference in the tone of the agreements, Russell.
If Rodders is impressed by the linguistic baubles of Full Initial Capitals, perhaps Turia and Sharples are more like e e cummings..
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Ta for clarifying, Gareth. I figured it must be something like that.
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Thanks, Russell. :)
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And URL embedding is broken now - can someone please sort that out along with the recent video embedding failures. Bribe those cactus lads with whatever it takes.
I tend to agree with Christopher that Craig must be reading something different (link by all means) than Trotter's Dominion column, cos there's nothing there about kupapa. Instead there's a marked repudiation of his loudly professed beliefs:
Are we socialists, in our drive for an absolute equality of outcomes, really willing to descend to the level of a certain species of crab which will, when collected in a bucket, seize and haul back into the doomed mass any individual that attempts to escape its fate by climbing out?
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"ACT improved 135%" - and still ended up within the margin of error for most opinion polls, in case you're tempted to claim a greater mandate than is warranted.
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