Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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Yikes! That's amazing Graeme - got a link?
No.
It's a stat I made up. Well, calculated.
$21m was the proposed initial cost (the Auditor-General made them cut it back to $15m) of WFF advertising (I could find a link for this, but won't). There are approx 1.4m households in New Zealand (I don't have a link, but am confident - I rang up NZPost and they told me.
$21m/1.4m is $15 per household - more than enough for an NZ Post overnight-courier-addressee's-signature-required-A4-CourierPost delivery.
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most of the advertising is overkill.
I always like the stat that so much was spent advertising Working for Families that the Government could have hand-couriered, signature required, all the information to every family in the country and saved themselves money.
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Damn!
Forgot GST on the Government funding.
Make that 56%/44%.
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Society (via the taxpayer) still covers something approaching 80% of the course fees.
It's been slowly eroding.
For example in 2008 law - which I studied - will have Government funding of $5039 per student. A full-time domestic law student will pay around $4121 (depends on University, obviously), plus extraneous compulsory university charges (at Vic - others are higher - these total around $270).
Other subjects differ obviously, but for something like law it's 53% Government funded, 47% private funded.
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The Standard has a good scoop
One interesting point is that, as the law is written (apologies Don), come January 1st, those writing The Standard will have to let us know who they are (and where they live).
Perhaps they're the same people who were behind the well-funded Keep Left NZ during the last election?
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there are so many "one interpretation" made by folks such as a gentleman called "Whaleoil" that have nothing to do with reality and heaps to do with a certain political agenda.
Don, if you are concerned with my political agenda in relation to the EFB may I suggest you look at this PA piece or my written submission on the Bill.
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The sort of advertising that might fall under it would be this effort...
Change the might to a should, and you might get agreement.
Of course the law shouldn't stop the Hollow Men being sold. Of course that can be easily fixed. But it might just be a BS draft as it stands.
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...And, although Hager strongly disagrees, that its crackdown on independent advocacy in election years is too onerous.
Are we sure he disagrees? At least one available interpretation of the bill as drafted will require The Hollow Men to be withdrawn from sale next year...
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I'm much more invested in Lloyd Jones winning the Man Booker Prize - which is still, arguably, the highest profile literary prize in the English speaking world.
Now if only we'd heard of it. The Booker Prize I've heard of, but who or what is "the Man..."?
I'd have still gone with the Nobel Prize in literature.
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a sheer lack of time have kept from from doing much with the humans.org.nz site lately, but we're fully back in action this week
I mentioned it to Russell in an email, but for everyone else, next Thursday's Oprah episode is about autism.
There's a lot of dross on Oprah - celebrities, life-style "cures" etc. - but occasionally there are incredible shows - at her best Oprah is one of the top current affairs shows around - hopefully this is one of them.