Posts by Matthew Poole
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Mike, it'd be funny if it wasn't becoming so blatantly obvious that it's deadly accurate.
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Charlie Brooker on same.
Chortle. Absolute genius. "I don't care if every Mac product comes equipped a magic button on the side that causes it to piddle gold coins and resurrect the dead and make holographic unicorns dance inside your head."
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If only Christchurch had an ista to make things happen. But look at how suckily that's turned out for Auckland
We have an "ista"? I know we have an Anti-Public Transport-ista who goes by the name of Stephen Joyce - Minister of Auckland Roads and Other Centres' Transport is his official job title, I believe.
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Wellington's population has a higher density.
Particularly in the Beehive and its precincts, right? Ho ho ho.
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Bunkle's declared main residence was only just outside the Wellington boundary.
I don't think she's the only one, either. There are a few urbanised areas that sit nicely just outside the circle, in various electorates.
neither of them employed arrangements anything like as exotic at English's.
I don't think anyone has employed arrangements "as exotic as English's", if for no other reason that shifting one's entire family to Wellington doesn't seem to be terribly common. But yes, the point regarding the lengths to which English appears to have gone - I don't think anyone really buys the argument that he completely detached himself from the trust for reasons entirely unrelated to housing allowances - is well-made. It's a whole new level of "apparently dodgy".
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So it's unlikely that one of the existing 49 will go up. Just a new one somewhere in-between them all.
I'd long been under the impression that it's accepted that, in Auckland's case, the volcanic devils we know are of interest only for historical and urban planning reasons?
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A 6.9 quake has been reported 280km from the epicentre of the last one, according to Granny. No reports of injuries at this point.
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Ross, I'm still noting that a lot of smaller more isolated spots are basically not returning much information. That was a huge part of the earlier unaccounted casualties in 2004
Yes, you're right there. But, and it's a big but, this isn't Indonesia plus a number of other countries. We're not discussing the fourth-most-populated nation on earth, we're talking about a bunch of islands with a combined population smaller than the final death toll from the '04 tsunami. The scope for such massive numbers of fatalities is greatly reduced, and that's assisted by the fact that people reacted to the quake quickly and got to higher ground.
Could I be wrong? Absolutely. Is it likely? Maybe, but the population is significantly smaller.
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I think on a scale of dodgy, it wasn't quite Bill English dodgy, but it still rated.
So they were dodgy to a lesser degree, but they offered their resignations and had the resignations accepted. Which is entirely proper, especially when one is a Minister.
What do we get from English? Attempts to rehabilitate his image, obfuscation, and general spin that comes right from the top. What was it people said about the last government being "the most corrupt government in NZ history"? Doesn't sound like it to me. -
this Padang earthquake is looking like something pretty bad. Thousands under buildings they say
From an alert email I've seen, the population density in the area is 36 people/km^2. For comparison, Dunedin has a PD of 37.1 people/km^2. And if I'm reading it correctly (the formatting is all screwed up) the population of the affected area is in excess of 5.5 million.