Posts by Andrew Geddis
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Legal Beagle: Voting in the Flag Referendum, in reply to Jackson James Wood,
Wot Graeme said.
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Speaker: Hall of Memories, in reply to Shaun Scott,
Fugazi and many many more
I'm pretty sure Fugazi didn't ever play at Sammys (they have an "all ages" policy for their gigs, so generally don't play at licensed venues). My memory of when they played Dunedin was that they were at the old RSA building on Moray Place.
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If you don’t rank any flag at all with a “1”. Or if you rank more than one flag with a “1”. Or if you vote using ticks, like in a first past the post election.
If you put a single tick next to just one of the options and nothing else, then that will be counted as if you marked the ballot paper with a 1 (as the voter's intention is clear).
But if you put ticks next to more than one of the options, then your vote will be treated as invalid.
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Speaker: Hall of Memories, in reply to Warren Clark,
Chicks is still going strong - Shellac are playing a two night stand there at the end of the month!
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Oi!
Just because traditional Americana is not to your taste is no reason to throw around epithets like "excruciating"! And the reason it was "barely discernible" is because we'd blown the speaker stacks the song before.
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Hamish Bond and Eric Murray:
Since Bond, a 29-year-old from Dunedin, and Murray, a 33-year-old who hails from the Hawke’s Bay, first united in the pair after the 2008 Olympics they have never been beaten. That’s a seven-year winning streak that includes 20 successive major international regatta victories, 57 races, five world championship titles (as well as another in the coxed pair) and one Olympic gold.
That was written pre-2015 World Champs … which they won again.
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One bouquet here is that tobacco companies have been specifically shut out of the new ISDS rights, meaning we can now safely move to impose plain packaging on cigarettes. (They’d better get on with that now.)
Not so.
There is a challenge to Australia's plain packaging measure presently before the WTO - if this wins, then NZ would be equally liable under our WTO obligations.
By the same token, Philip Morris' challenge against Australia under its BIT with Hong Kong is still in play. If that wins, NZ potentially could be proceeded against under the ISDS provisions in one of our other FTA's with Asian nations.
All excluding tobacco from the TPPA does is stop US tobacco companies directly bringing proceedings under that instrument. There's still other potential fishhooks out there that will keep plain packaging off the books for another year.
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@Rich,
True - consistently being ripped apart on appeal would likely prevent any chance of progression up the judicial ranks. But my point was that Peter Dunne has the opportunity to decide whether Dr Mathieson's decision-making is so poor that he should be "off the bench" altogether (so to speak).
In answer to your question, but ... most High Court judges get appointed directly there (i.e. without serving on the District Court first).
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@Rich,
Difference being, District Court judges stay in their jobs no matter what until age 72.* Don Mathieson, however, is up for periodic reappointment to his role by Peter Dunne.
*Unless the Attorney-General tells the Governor General to sack him or her following a recommendation by a Judicial Conduct Panel, that is.
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... for most of that time the book was self-published, and perhaps not very widely known. It has now won an award and everything.
The book won the best novel award on June 24, 2013. The Review Board classified it in December 2013. So for over 5 months after being given additional public prominence by the award win the book could be read, sold, shared and displayed completely free from any restrictions ... yet the Board was still able to give it an R14 rating.
So how would two-or-three months of free availability now prevent the Board from doing likewise?