Posts by Katharine Moody
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Chris McDowall’s infographic of booth data is extremely interesting.
Thanks for the link. Particularly interesting to look at the booths on the various uni campuses.
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Access: The Driverless Road Ahead, in reply to Moz,
I may have used one of those, as part of a Scout Jamboree somewhere, but beige plastic thing with handles, all smooth-ish plastic and I can't remember any of the details.
I was employed by Polycorp (a subsidiary of Progeni) to sell them. Yep, big beige plastic cover (screen, board, keyboard combined in the one package) - with handles. Way ahead of its time - first in the world, I believe, to have a 'broadcast' (limited network/connectivity) function - such that the teacher could load the classroom of PCs from a 'master'. First in the world too, I think for multiple, programmable graphics screens. What a world beating tech / education industry NZ would have had the Muldoon government of the day prescribed Poly as the classroom standard.
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Speaker: The Government lost the election, in reply to Emma Hart,
We had quite a few voters furious to find that, since the last time they’d voted, they’d been disenrolled. In most cases, this would be because they moved, didn’t update their address, their first ‘check your details are correct’ pack went to their old address, and was returned to sender.
Ooooh, that's not good. How awful for the large section of our society who are forced to move around numerous times in any three-year period, due to landlords giving them notice to vacate their tenancies. Seems a very bad idea to just automatically unenrol folks where those forms are marked 'Return to Sender' - why not wait to see if they turn up to vote and then initiate a change of address?.
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Speaker: The Government lost the election, in reply to Bart Janssen,
That's a good idea.
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Speaker: The Government lost the election, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Is welfare in NZ only as controversial as it is because of racial undercurrents?
Sadly, I think so and you are right about that being the dominant narrative in the US.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to Neil,
It’s all tiresome theatre from Peters but on occasion his rants speak a certain truth – about him and his priorities.
And most importantly, he points out the fact that as yet 15% of the NZ electorate votes have not been counted.
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Legal Beagle: Election 2017: the Special…, in reply to dave stewart,
Another take on it is that the equivalent of 102 seats have already been allocated by votes already counted, and there are effectively another 18 seats still up for grabs – to be decided by specials (at 21k votes per seat). Seems more promising for the left when viewed from this perspective?!
I'll take great delight if this final count throws up something that none of our media predicted.
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He believes both authorities got it very wrong. I think had either considered complaints about commercial communications structured this way, the threshold might well have been met. It comes down to how you see political speech at the peak of an election campaign.
I wonder whether these rulings are able to be challenged by judicial review. I think it is important enough for our democracy going forward - and if the original student petitioners set up a GiveALittle page to raise funds for such a review, I'd be donating.
Resistance of post-truth type political advertising is important to my mind.
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Legal Beagle: Election 2017: the Special…, in reply to dave stewart,
Curveball possibilties?
No 1 very interesting. Here's a statistical analysis of TOP voters;
http://vjmpublishing.nz/?p=4785
No idea how valid it might be.
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Hard News: Where are all the polls at?, in reply to Dennis Frank,
If Winston really sides with those who aren’t getting the trickle-down, since he now has the opportunity to help shape a genuinely-progressive new government his negotiating strategy ought to prioritise that design.
This is a great re-read;
http://www.nzfirst.org.nz/rt_hon_winston_peters_budget_speech_2017