Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest,
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the 'Love' is gone...
Aroha from Mt Albert's McGehan Close - labelled "a "dead end" and "the nation's street of hopelessness" created by the Labour government." by John Key - speaks up ...Back in 2007, her mother Joan Nathan famously castigated Key for insulting their community.
As an olive branch, Key took the young girl to celebrations at Waitangi that year and got Nathan a job at MP Jackie Blue's office. Things briefly looked up for the family. But after the first term of Key's government, Aroha moved to Australia and her mother was back on the benefit after being made redundant from her job with Blue.
Three years later Aroha, now 20, feels she was used by Key - and the Prime Minister won't be getting her vote.
"The last time I spoke to him was when he took me to Waitangi Day. After that I have never heard from him again. I absolutely believe that I was used as a publicity stunt," she says. "I wouldn't vote for National."Key's Mr Lollipop Man T-shirt, mangles our cultures like he mangles words - mr sensitive...
He just doesn't get it,
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Capture: Lost, in reply to
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how people out here earn a living
I understand 'Blue Poles' can fetch a lot of money and stuff...
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Cool Dancer, in reply to
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Cool Dancer, in reply to
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My computer is behaving like a sloth
and missed the edit window – grrrr…
I jumped in and used my editing superpowers for you :-)ta muchly.
turns out the sloth might have been external
not that I am a Sputter customer – but it may be a related traffic problem…Interesting attack map in the twitter-grabs…
Probably it’s just the other 4 Eyes searching NZ for Whaledump/Rawshark at the GCSB Minister’s behest…
re Lesley Maclean posters:
I should do something on her work for Audioculture some time.
Peter McLennan has made a good start on this…
(NB: Peter I’m happy to send you the images I have if you wanted to update that post)
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I only noticed two of the 'minor leaders' say "at the end of the day"
I'd have thought they'd be avoiding that cliche like the plague...but they all seemed to be on their best behaviour
and Hosking was an irritant - supplying no pearls...
(waste of carbon, really...)but being all blokes was a bit grim I thought...
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I hear Key saying there were things in Dirty Politics that were just plain 'wrong' and that that was 'proved pretty quickly'...
Which things were these?I may have been distracted and missed something...
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to
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It’s starting.
Powder the people!
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to
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but that’s quite an exit
The krill is gone...
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Capture: By Night, in reply to
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I burn in the footpath...
do you do any 'burning in' of objects in situ on long exposures?
or is it all in post production tools
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest,
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I've said it before - but I reckon our leaders should be co-opted rather than elected - not quite randomly selected - but people with relevant skills, rather than the motley crew parties like National throw at us to select from.
Having said that we just went down to a street corner meeting for Labour's Poto Williams in Richmond, she impressed me as a positive candidate, and as good people - they were there, enthusiastically, at 5pm on a wet friday.