Posts by Lyndon Hood
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My ungrounded instinct would be that it wouldn't meet a 'promoting party' threshold for legal purposes.
But it is sort of
Bill English = Economy
Bill's Message About Economy!
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On a broader note, it's so not-unprecidented as to be tedious that Parliament has legislated over an Attorney-Gen's negative BORA report.
And my impression was that Finlayson has been more-than-usually apolitical in his assessments. Though one might still have issues.
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Note that, while that agency is new, the reversed-burden-of-proof asset seizure regime actually came from the previous government.
It might also be useful to know, I'm told that Judith Collins actually became quite animated at the press conference when challenged about human rights issues. You may be able to confirm this with the audio here.
The immigration bill went through yesterday as well. For once, not (AFAIK) under urgency. Previously on immigration bill & similar: Gordon Campbell On The Erosion Of Justice.
[Edit: 'came from the previous government' as in was-introduced-by. Iit seems to have passed in April.
Also, 'boy racers'.]
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the passing of the Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Amendment Bill
The was a PR from Simon Power earlier said
The Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Amendment Bill allows police to collect DNA from people they 'intend to charge', and to match it against samples from unsolved crimes.
His scare-quotes. I had a comment they should make the police do the wiggly-fingers thing ever time.
Doing-things-to-criminals (or suspected/alledged) doesn't seem to get too much challenged, but in this case it may have been enhanced by liberal use of parliamentary urgency. After it passing being generally considered too late for the debate.
And it's not as if we're short of human rights outrages just now.
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People who haven't seen it and - Lord save us - want to, the video is on Scoop for the moment.
Interesting - I had no memory of the last few seconds. I don't know if my brain had clouded over or it actually wan't there. Last few seconds probably help. Nonetheless, one begins to think the theory the 7 ad people we deliberately courting controversy best explains all the facts.
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Craig, settle. My comment was intendend to express my opinion of the ad itself. I think the video looks like a promo for Bill English - to an inapporopriate extent. I think they should have done something else. Apparently you disagree on all those points though I'm not sure you've actually said so.
It doesn't have to be illegal for me to think that, and I don't have to do anything about it. And if Labour do or don't want to overhype the evidence don't come crying to me about it.
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the creepiness of VR spiders.
If you turn the 'walk bounce' up to maximum it can be quite perky.
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Actually, Craig, my own intention was to set the world to rights by arguing on the internet.
And I'm not presently concerned with theorising about how it happened, I just don't think running promos which are, as far as the viewer can tell, for Bill English is on.
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Someone just pointed out one can watch the english promo in front of any video on the TVNZ7 website (reloading if you get something else).
So, if it were an official party political broadcast: what would be different?
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