Posts by Russell Brown
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Oh, also, all the people who ranted about Sweden's dreadful child welfare laws (the usual Sir Humptys suspects droned on about it for days as I recall) when Ruby Harrold-Claesson paid her visit last year seem to have gone ... quiet.
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I've not read this report in any detail but I'd be wary of isolating any one factor, tax or otherwise, to explain the relative performances of different countries.
Yes, I was being a bit tongue in cheek there actually ...
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Yes, I am coming round to this view myself, for the alternative as posited by the Kiwiblog crew (Sonic excepted of course, you are my hero) is simply...inhuman.
Well, more to the point, the results point in the opposite direction from John Key's more-private-charity pitch.
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The most interesting thing about it as a piece of social research is that NZ - and the other Anglophonic Liberal political economies, with their majoritarian political culture and emphasis on marketisation and commodification as the de facto organising principles of social life - are almost categorically as a set of political economies doing worse than, particuarly the Social Democratic, consensus-orientated political economies of Northern Europe.
Yes. High taxes and deep welfare seem to be good for children. Fancy ...
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Simon Collins did well to inject some historical context into his summary, but there's some illuminating information here
New Zealand's rate of child death by intentional injury is shameful. But it's lower than it was in the 1980s, and sharply lower than it was in the 1990s, a boom time for the malicious injury of children.
Another Innocenti report on child deaths by injury has a more startling figure. Check out page 9: between the early 70s and the early 90s, child injury deaths in NZ nearly halved (in part through the application of various forms of "political correctness"). But they fell even more in some other countries.
It's very easy to think of the past as a golden era. It's not always true.
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We don't have anyway of knowing if that is good, bad or average. Reporting an average here would help. If the average was 8%, then it doesn't look too bad. If the average was 2% then we should be concerned.
It's all in the Unicef report itself, mostly with attractive bar graphs for accessibility.
Having done my 'nana at Simon Collins' "80,000 hungry children" story last week, I do feel bound to point out that he's done quite a good job of summarising this report.
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It appears so far that in fact no one claimed evidence of high level Iranian invlovement.
Or only did so verbally. Like I said, deniability.
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Just fucking do it and don't bother me with insane chattering...
Could it be that Outlook 2007 is a blutter in disguise?
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A stone cold classic. Dylan earned the right to the interview by dint of his football skills. The interview has been licensed to any number of documentaries and DVD projects, and a lot of people assume that Dylan personally benefited from it.
Unfortunately, he didn't. He was there with a TVNZ (BCNZ?) crew, and the broadcaster owned the rights. Thereafter, he conducted such interviews with an independent crew.
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although a bit of me would like to grizzle at it being held just a couple of days before the deadline for the Select Committee submissions...
Mostly a function of the deadline being so tight. I think Internet NZ did quite well to get out of holiday mode in time.
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