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  • Hard News: Now It's On,

    Let's see.

    Introduced income-related rents for state housing.
    Created District Health Boards, changed health funding, moved away from fee-for-service funding.
    Reversed ACC privatisation.
    Unwound (somewhat) the Employment Contracts Act.
    Bought back Air NZ and Railways.

    There's another biggie to add, although it's not really a roll-back - the trust-busting of the telco sector.

    The southernmost capital … • Since Nov 2006 • 5446 posts Report Reply

  • Up Front: Young and Sort of Free,

    Hamboy:

    How long before an MP here promotes it here?

    Trevor Rodgers attempted to 'censor' the Internet nearly 15 years ago, but Parliament had the good sense to bin it and have a quiet guffaw.

    And in relation to Justice Stewart's famous remark, J Edgar Hoover will be forever remembered for this:

    I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce."

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  • Island Life: Still not over it,

    Another problem that bicycle commuters soon discover is that many workplaces don't even have somewhere to lock up your bike, let alone changing room with shower.

    Cycling isn't ever going to become a popular, convenient thing to do. I'm fine with that actually.

    Meridian Energy begs to differ. And it's not an isolated case.

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  • Island Life: More billboards,

    Dave:

    Hey! Is that Daisy's daughter?

    Just in case, for the uninitiated...

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  • Hard News: At home with the art-hackers,

    Russell:

    I'm of the view currently that EA needs to be crucified over this. They've released broken software and made it very difficult to fix because of the way they've applied their DRM.

    Wankers.

    Bring back Trip Hawkins!

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  • Island Life: More billboards,

    Paul - I totally agree. At the Welly Film Archive, I recently noticed a video clip of David Lange raising similar issues in the 1978 election. And I quote from a recent article by Chris Trotter:

    How do you propose to silence our political consciences; close the wage-gap; cancel student debt; mend those broken hearts; curb our wanderlust; and end New Zealand's geographical isolation?

    By cutting personal income tax? Give me a break! You could abolish income tax altogether and we'd still be paid less than the Aussies.

    What's that? You're going to make the bosses pay their workers more?

    Yeah, right.

    I suspect what ties the above factors together is what Germaine Greer describes as suburban mediocrity.

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  • Island Life: Serving suggestion only,

    PS. Chris Trotter pointed out the following in one of his more reasonable posts on stuff.co.nz:

    By cutting personal income tax? Give me a break! You could abolish income tax altogether and we'd still be paid less than the Aussies.

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  • Island Life: Serving suggestion only,

    Andrew L:

    Some kid bought a full page ad in the papers & had the names of loads of people who'd left NZ never to return... (apparently).

    I remember that advert, it was titled, "A Generation Lost?" It blew back on the advert's creator when it emerged it was part-sponsored by the BRT, and many of the people listed on the advert pointed out that their names had been used without their permission.

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  • Island Life: Serving suggestion only,

    Actually, that should be Maurie, not Muzza. No edit function.

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  • Island Life: Serving suggestion only,

    I'm Sherriff Muzza
    You are nicked for breaking the
    Broadband speed limit!

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