Posts by Andre
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Private-public partnerships will be de rigeur and Canterbury residents will end up paying to use normal utilities for decades to come.
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This is scarily reminiscent of Italy's use of emergencies to justify unconstitutional acts. In that context, this Bill seems not only Draconian, but Berlusconian.
The parallels between Italy and NZ's governments continue to disturb. Next Steven Joyce et al will be buying TVNZ.
The ACT "Super City" is a monument to dictatorial behaviour. The dumping of the elected board of Environment Canterbury because they were trying to protect waterways from degradation by farmers is just disgusting.
The decision to charge farmers 3% of our Kyoto protocol costs when agriculture produces 49% of emissions delivering subsidies to agriculture and large industries of between $100 billion and $200 billion (depending on the carbon price) is robbery. Two thirds of this would be paid to pastoral farmers. http://www.pundit.co.nz/content/dairy-milking-new-zealand
I used to think Labour and National were as bad as each other. I think if you got them both in the same room they'd secretly fantasise about taxing the young while exempting land-owners. National would probably just get over-excited and ruin everything by admitting that it dreams of just ruling without needing those pesky old laws and elections though. -
Ill-education rules! I did a semester of history at Uni and felt I could have accomplished 20 times as much by spending that time reading instead - unless I had wanted to become a University lecturer.
It's great to see so many ads on the site. Well done! -
It still seems like an old boys (and old girls) network and that Justice Wilson didn't think he needed to announce his conflict of interest in the belief that his peers would understand because they trusted him as a friend as well as a colleague.
You're the lawyer Graeme and I'm not but this whole thing seems to stink a bit. -
Skyview? I thought that it added ambience and was a brilliant solution for carrying a Twitter feed. I'd like to thank Simon Butcher from Innovative Markets for agreeing to spend about 3 or 4 hours of his time between midday and 1am installing the AV balloon and waiving his normal $1000+gst fee (after I hassled him for ages to do so).
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They shouldn't have made the guy a Judge in the first place - that would have been a win for "the system".
I think Chris Finlayson could have acted sooner and that an MP is going around saying just that.
There were huge arguments about whether or not to recommend investigating the whole saga within our top legal fraternity and without the press getting hold of this it may have never been progressed.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10637476&pnum=0The system hasn't done anything yet but hopefully those that run the system will be able to look past the fact that the man in question is a friend to many of them. We await the outcome with interest...
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And then there is the fact that Attorney General Chris Finlayson is the object of an affidavid from wool grower Richard Bell which alleges that National's Kaikoura MP, Colin King, told him that Mr Finlayson would not act against Justice Wilson because they were friends.
It seems a case of one law for the Judges and another for us. -
Apparently he's on $410,000 a year. We're mainly paying that much so that we can employ trustworthy Supreme Court judges.
We need for justice to be seen to be done. Even if everyone involved had the best intentions their actions seem badly conceived and arrogant - which disqualifies them from holding the positions they occupy. -
It seems as if he'll be let off but his reputation has been damaged slightly. He should be kicked to touch but those at the top of the legal fraternity are all old mates by the sounds so I fully expect a wet bus ticket to be the weapon of choice here.
Justice Wilson was indebted to Mr Galbraith by up to $602,000. To normal mortals that's a lifetime's savings. But in the rarefied world of the bar that's a years' earnings probably.
I think it's enough to cause a conflict of interest and it's just plain dodgy that he didn't declare it.
The Attorney General can't hear the case. Judith Collins is assuming Attorney-General responsibilties in relation to the complaints against Justice Wilson as he and Chris Finlayson were both partners at the law firm Bell Gully.
He'll be off scot free by the end of the week. -
Te Radar and his show are both great. I too met him when he was't famous - at Squid rather regularly - and he's always had a unique outlook. And he knows an impressive amount aout gardening and keeping chickens.
I saw him at an event a few months ago where he told Tariana Turia they had a lot in common since he's removed the H from his first name for cultural reasons. What a crack up!
I wonder if his appeal is limited to people with a youthful attitude?