Posts by dc_red
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Anyone waiting for the "Unauthorized biography of Phil Goff" (NZ Herald), or a pretty piece about the next "up-beat Prime Minister in Waiting" (DomPost) is likely to be disappointed. The Herald has already declared he's yesterday's man, a mere timeserver.
Curiously, it also says the HC should have stayed on.
I'm still in a bit of shock at the notion of NZ politics without HC, and it's only just dawned on me why. By my reckoning, she's been the leader or deputy leader of the Labour Party for 19 years.
No mean feat (esp. considering what a back-biting lot they were until the mid-90s).
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I believe ACT's policy is that two cars in every garage, and 3 eyes on every fish, is infinitely preferable to insulation in every home.
Slightly more seriously, given the populist right's recent opposition to the very notion of building standards, it's not too much of a stretch to imagine: "Why should I have to insulate a new house? It's my right to spend as much on heating as I want, without Nanny State telling me otherwise!"
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He pulled out that appalling line about 'having no kids makes you inferior' - citing the fact that the front bench of the Labour Party had one child between them whilst the National Party had 23.
Well he's full of shit, then. Phil Goff has 3 kids, for starters.
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I heard that 18-25 years old vote was way down. Anyone know where I can see that?
Could that go some way to explaining the 2% of the party vote that never turned up for the Greens? It was looking like 8% minimum for them, I thought.
WRT "mana" I'm tempted to paraphrase Humpty Dumpty: it means whatever the user wants it to mean - nothing more, nothing less.
Any guesses for Goff's deputy?
Mahuta would be an interesting choice.
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For too long, zoos have made inefficient choices, selecting sleepy animals that provide minimal entertainment value. There's a reason children, who know their own interests, flock to the meercats while leaving the big cats - such as the somnambulist lion - asleep under the concrete baobab tree.
Those tiger cubs at Auckland Zoo are allegedly only awake for 20 minutes at a time during the day! Imagine if an elderly MP was only awake for 20 minutes at a time during Parliament! Now, if Nanny State didn't intervene, we could give both the tiger cubs, and the elderly MP, a pick-me-up in the form of an amphetamine of some sort.
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Yes, it's Goff for mine. He has the experience, the acumen, the media skills, and the intelligence. Maybe Shane Jones for deputy.
If Cullen retires then Tizard's in on the list, I assume.
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Two questions:
1/ If not Goff, then whom? Parker is too nice (and was comprehensively rejected by his electorate), and Cunliffe comes across terribly a lot of the time.
2/ The Herald has a hard-on for Key, describing him as "Wall Street's boy trader". WTF? He was hardly the financial equivalent of Doogie Howser, MD.
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Put me down as another non-sleeper last night. Amateur self-medication proved useless. After 2.5 hours of restlessness I succumbed and took half a sleeping tablet, which worked, but was a bit risky as I had to be up at 7am.
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n the worst case I expect snailmail transport of votes to a trained professional (ie, posting back from the US to NZ)
Snail mail has to be in Wellington by this afternoon so shouldn't unduly delay the process.
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It will be interesting to see how the 'get out the overseas vote' campaign has gone. Given, I assume, hundreds of thousands of potentially eligible NZ voters overseas there's the chance they'll effect the outcome.
Anyone know at what point they're counted? As far as I know the diplomatic posts allow voting until this evening, so it'll be a while before they're all back in NZ.
In addition overseas votes could be faxed or mailed directly back to Wellington.