Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: If DJ was your trade, in reply to Peter Johnston,
And now thanks to his musical endeavours he can ride a bike too, so everything worked out alright in the end!
Just claim you planned it all that way.
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Hard News: Friday Music: If DJ was your trade, in reply to Doug Hood,
very cool, cheers russell, patti smiths on my wish list for akcitylimits
That would be great! And not out of the question given that she's playing festival shows ...
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Speaker: The government's Rules…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
And bugger me dead if a couple of the righteous ain't trying to make this about having to accommodate the pesky disabled.
Because of course they are. Urgh.
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Field Theory: It's about time, in reply to Emma Hart,
Union. She was a massive League fan. Still is, I assume.
Yes. I interviewed her twice before she was PM and both times she talked about being the patron of the Mt Albert club. It did seem to matter to her.
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Field Theory: It's about time, in reply to Grant McDougall,
Even if they hadn't said so publically, it'd pretty much be a foregone conclusion that, to use an above example, Dan Carter, would've voted National anyway, given he's from a small, rural town.
And he's very wealthy.
Yeah, it's not a surprise, but they should probably shut about it.
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Field Theory: It's about time, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
$4.5mln directly from the government
Most of that's for Sevens, on the basis that it's an Olympic sport. The men's and women's Sevens teams received more than $1m each on the basis that they're likely gold medallists.
Rugby has been professional since 1995 and whilst the NZRFU spends some money on amateur club rugby, it's a small portion of their total revenue.
About a quarter of NZ rugby's $120m revenue goes into grants to provincial unions and game development and I'd guess tens of millions more of the funding for competitions and representative teams goes to non-professional tiers (most ITM Cup players aren't professionals, for instance).
Given that there are 150,000 people playing the game, rugby pays its way more than most sports. Rowing and competitive cycling will get more government funding than rugby this year, for instance. And Lydia Ko has personally received nearly half a million in government grants over the past three years – again, on the basis that she's a likely medal winner. It's all dictated by the high-performance sports funding National introduced in 2009.
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I liked this, by Jeni Little. It shows why a simple design works.
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Hard News: The positive option of Red Peak, in reply to Tom Semmens,
I am pretty sure that is the end of any talk of “Red Peak"….
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Hard News: The positive option of Red Peak, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
only to find someone is already using our Koru flag as a re-use prevention watermark!
Ha!
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Hard News: The positive option of Red Peak, in reply to Jeanette King,
For example, can I just put 1 beside Red Peak and not rank any other options and still cast a legal ballot?
I think so. We need some advice on this.
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