Posts by Angela Hart
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Alfie,
it sure does, and Labour, Greens and Mana should all be screaming about it- some negative comments are legitimate and necessary, and this is one.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I hope that they are OK.
Sounds a bit fatalistic...Or just being careful. Many thanks to Whaledump/Rawshark, a hero in my book.
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I dunno. Seems to me the tide could be changing, which is why the MSM are playing up the polls in this way today. If only the polls/headlines could be challenged, Aotearoa might yet see its naked emperor for what he is.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Bruce Ward,
Headlines subtly indicating that people need not get out to vote because, as
just like last time
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I think polls are another tool in use to sway public opinion. I have great concerns about their use close to elections.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Sacha,
The deep framing that the right spent years laying has helped them slide past one of the biggest scandals NZ politics has seen. What’s next, now that they know it works?
It's not done yet. The press and the public must keep up the pressure.
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to Russell Brown,
The photo-essay is here if anyone missed it at the time.
tears- many of us do really care but feel so helpless
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Speaker: On the upland road, in reply to Ianmac,
How far and how low do the dirty tricks go? Setting out to destroy schools and Principal's and thus the kids just stinks.
It fits the established pattern of getting your own way. We've seen it with Canterbury, with Christchurch, with the SuperCity, with Funded Family Care, with National Standards and with Charter Schools, to name a few.
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Or as part of the general clean-up which must happen if the thinking populace is to have confidence in its government, sort out the OIA so that it operates in the way it was intended to do. Any government can do what this one has been doing unless things are tightened up.
Unfortunately you can't legislate for honesty and integrity, that's where our system fails. We don't have the checks and balances to arrest improper behaviour. Look at the PM refusing to do what is right (this time with an enquiry). He is a law unto himself. There can be a hue and cry but unless he chooses to act (usually because the polls show him he needs to) no-one can make him. Democracy or dictatorship? -
Speaker: On the upland road, in reply to izogi,
Thanks Izogi, that may work for me in the future, but not for the particular information I want now, which is NASC generated.
My point is that implementation of policy is currently concealed by the assertion that NASCs are not subject to the OIA. It's an abuse of the OIA as the Act states that contractors are included.