Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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And how many has he had executed?
President Bush? One or Two. There have been three federal executions (and no military ones) since 1978 (when the federal death penalty was reinstated) - the first was under Clinton, and Bush has had at least one.
And to be fair to Bush - this sentence was quite harsh ... and he didn't pardon.
And to be fair to the US, at least their pardon system makes sense. In New Zealand we only pardon the innocent - who, by virtue of their innocence, in fact have done nothing to pardon. It's an anomaly our courts have noted for 100+ years.
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No no no, Graeme.
I was trying to parrot Maharey - to make a number of, admittedly rather subtle, points.
Maharey is asked a question in Parliament - "how many ... 20 hours free ... childcare" to which Maharey would respond pointing out the difference between "childcare" and "quality early childhood education" and not addressing the "free" aspect.
Then someone else will ask him a supplementary - and again mention childcare, and he will use it to point out that National was about childcare - no matter how beneficial, and Labour is about early childhood education - which he asserts is better etc. Again avoiding the "free" bit.
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20 hours free childcare a week
No no. As Maharey was at pains to point out all week - National was promising something about childcare. Labour was promising quality early child education. Not babysitters, but actual learning, etc.
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IO - I won't guarantee it was 6pm.
They led Nightline with it. And I'd bet money they led 6pm with it as well, but not at such poor odds as I would about Nightline.
(Also, my first post was written without having seen your first post, so was a response to Fiona's question, not your doubts)
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To be fair, bad things are being written about John from Cincinatti too...
And so we won't miss it, I thought I'd put the word out about Time - starting next Sunday at 10am on One. Michio Kaku hosts what will hopefully be another of TV One's hidden Sunday-morning gems.
And I can confirm TV3 led with Miss Hilton. They crossed live.
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When was the last military intervention that worked to liberate the resident population?
Solomons? Timor? Those motorists snowed in on the Desert road a couple of years back?
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yeah - the Herald article this morning is similar:
Howard remains determined. Beside him is Noel Pearson, a respected Aboriginal activist whose tough-love proposals for his tribal lands on Cape York Peninsula provided the model for intervention in the Northern Territory.
"The people who are nay-saying any type of intervention are people whose children, like my own, sleep safe at night".
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1967 Indigenous Australians got the vote.
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I quite agree.
I don't.
What actually happened in 1967 was that the Federal Goverment gained the power to make laws specific to Indigenous Australians (a power they didn't previously have), and their numbers were included in the reckoning of Parliamentary seats, etc.
In most states, Indigenous Australians got the right to vote in 1901 - at the same time as everyone else. And got citizenship in 1948 - also at the same time as everyone else got a seperate Australian citizenship.
127 years of active legisative descrimination by removing basic human dignity has a price
Far from it, as I discuss above, active legislative discrimination (from the Federal Government) was only possible after 1967 - not before.
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Yep - Rich beat me to it. British subs aren't allowed in New Zealand waters.
As for stockpiling BZP - people should be warned that that might lead to consequences - anyone with even a slightly large stockpile who is then caught might not face just possession charges, but possession with intent to supply (a presumption of supply will kick in at 100 tablets).
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Hey - I was one of those NGA 'entrepreneurs'!
$2 for a 1.5 litre Coke dramatically undercut the tuck-shop's $1.30 for a can. On a good day, I could make $20. Which seemed a lot/which was a lot.