Posts by Kumara Republic
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I can remember when the UCSA building still had a Time Out spacies branch in the late 1990s.
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Hard News: About Chris Brown, in reply to ,
Twitter is killing this place.
Not so sure about that. What I can express on Twitter, I can express here in an expanded format.
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Hard News: About Chris Brown, in reply to Sacha,
Turia digs in even more defiantly on Morning Report today, and Kim Hill aint having a bar of it. Head-shaking denial of evidence. “I’ll support whoever I want” etc.
Maybe it wasn't such a bad thing for Labour to lose Tariana Turia after all.
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This can only give high-decile schools an even bigger reason to cherry-pick and widen the education gap. FFS.
Student achievement to be used to fund schools under new model
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Legal Beagle: The Greg King Memorial…, in reply to Andrew R266,
Graeme I think you need to account for the age of the person at the time of the offences. As I understand it there is a reducing offence rate as people get older, over 30 years old. Is that a factor”
Again, there was mention in that Investigate Magazine link (ahem) of the theory mentioned in Freakonomics linking falling crime rates and the 1973 Roe vs Wade ruling. The writer of that article (probably Wishart himself) dismissed it out of hand – among other ‘reality-based’ theories – in favour of the outmoded Dixon of Dock Green approach.
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When has Merepeka Raukawa-Tait ever not been idiosyncratic?
And it's ironic that Australia, originally settled as a dumping ground for British convicts, is itself now exporting them.
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Hard News: About Chris Brown, in reply to Tom Semmens,
I can’t stand Veitch. Apart from anything else, he fawns in the most sickening way over sports stars and spends most of his time on air recounting his various soirées he attends to ingratiate himself with the grea and the good of NZ sport.
To be charitable, Tony Veitch is effectively the anointed successor to Murray Deaker.
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Hard News: About Chris Brown, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
The c-word nobody seems keen to use here is Class – or more precisely money to lawyer up. If you’ve got a promoter who stands to lose an awful lot of money if a tour gets cancelled because your headliner can’t get a visa, that’s one thing. If you’re on the other side of the Tasman, and nobody else gives a shit who you are… well, I’ve heard Christmas Island is lovely this time of year.
Aka "the best get-out-of-jail-free-card money can buy".
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Sacha,
ahaha – “Block NZ debuts to worst ratings ever”
The ad campaigns tried a bit too hard to ape the superhero thing, you reckon?
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Hard News: About Chris Brown, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Wow. Bet Hoskings was hiding under his bed terrified that an unfavourable decision was published.
If the BSA wanted to put up a big sign saying “WE ARE USELESS; SERVE NO PURPOSE; DO NOTHING FOR ANYONE’ they could hardly have done so more eloquently.The BSA rulings against Paul Holmes for the Generation Lost and Cheeky Darkie controversies were basically wet bus tickets. For such rulings to have any meaningful influence, they need the equivalent penalty of something like a successful lawsuit. It's a bit like how the Scandinavians regulate their media, and they're among the highest-ranked for media freedom.