Posts by Idiot Savant
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The Danes are unique amoung the Schengen Area, in that they can accept or decline to adopt measures at their own behest.
You forgot a very important word there: "new". Because they came in late, they can refuse new measures. But they're in for the fundamentals, which includes free movement of workers.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has been critical of their immigration law.
Specifically, their asylum policies. I agree, they're regressive - but they have very little to do with entry of "foreign" (to the extent that word applies in Europe anymore) labour into the Danish labour market. Despite the media attention, refugees are not Denmark's primary source of migrants; they accept only 500 a year, which works out to less than 4% of their total net migration.
In other words, you're still talking bullshit.
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Provocation defense, might be used by a victim of ongoing domestic abuse, that retaliation. But it would need to be proved that the ongoing abuse had caused PTSD Complex or some such excuse thats plausible to, a jury.
Such a defence has never been successful. Instead, provocation exclusively aids violent homophobes acting on trivial "provocations", and violent misogynists.
These people didn't lose self-control. They simply refused to exercise it, then used bigotry to minimise and excuse their actions.
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Wasn't me, but anyways I like the provocation defence. If a killer is provoked to kill they need to be granted the provocation defence.
So Angus, do you think being gay is a justification for murder? What about being a woman?
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Also, while we're comparing Australian and NZ responses to productivity concerns, you might appreciate the contrast between NZ capping funding for tertiary enrolments, at the very point Australia is uncapping them in universities and massively increasing funding for what's called vocational education and training. There's a wealth of research showing the very positive returns for investments in education and training including one that shows a $6.40 (NPV) return for every dollar invested. Odd then that National have cut spending...
Not really. Lower taxes for their business mates trump investment in New Zealand every time.
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I'm sick of constantly being told I have to compare myself to Australians.
I'm not.
Looking at the things which actually matter - freedom, democracy, toleance, a lack of racism or corruption - we come out rather well. its only businessmen who feelemasculated by the comparison.
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Denmark also has regressive immigration law which assists a low unemployment rate by restricting the flow of new entrants to the job market.
I call bullshit.
Denmark is part of the Schengen Agreement. Anyone in the Schengen Area (which is most of the EU, with the exception of the UK, Ireland, Romania and Bulgaria, but with the non-EU Scandanavia, Iceland and Switzerland added) can move and work there freely. Like us and Australia - only much, much bigger.
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The Progressive Bills Project just had its first bill drawn from the ballot.
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I thought that noise emanated from Nick Smith and Tony Ryall.
No, its definitely Hutchison or Auchinvole - that toffy voice is quite distinctive.
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Why would anyone believe that Brash is the man that could make this happen. With his stewardship of the Reserve Bank, isn't he one of the drivers that got us in this mess?
party, but the real culprit is Bill Birch.
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I'm sure a competant DJ could replace 80% of the house in the debating chamber..
Well, they could certainly replace Paul Hutchison (or is it Chris Auchinvole), with his pre-hersed plummy "ohhhhh..." whenever English digs up the "latest" from 20 years ago.
Alternatively, we could just have a tape of hooting chimpanzees. It would be about as enlightening.
(And yet, I will watch Question Time again today, in the vain hope of seeing somethign interesting...)