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...CGT, raising super age, Maori more involved in Justice and apprenticeships...
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to Sacha,
Sacha, This teapot storm gives politicians and media another chance to show us what they're made of over the next week.
Definitely, and I would argue that that is what National do not want, Joyce is minister for broadcasting after all and the way they have behaved towards the media, uncertainty, bullying, closures, threats, bespeaks to me of no mere coincidence.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to Sacha,
He's also alluding to the Prebble, Douglas bushwhacking of the Lange Govt with Rogernomics (not campaigned for) that Lange called a tea break from. Then Act was formed and this is it's last throw of the dice, they always have been National's other brother.
I think this is central to the argument that Key meeting Banks was duplicitous and so necessary to be exposed to the public domain via the media, or who else?Answer to Sacha, I don't think Goff should have ruled out working with Mana. I don't think they should talk about ruling out anyone, frankly, because that would be the truth.
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Joyce uses media to castigate media,
"I think there are one or two people in the media who need to do a little bit of self-assessment over this weekend."
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/5991288/Keys-handling-of-teapot-tape-defended
Also it can be argued that Key is using the police investigating the media to influence the election. I think it is an onerous complaint owing to the non-private nature of the media staged (precedent set 2 elections prior) cup-of-tea-to-influence-voting. -
Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to linger,
Yes it is. The critiquing of misinformation performed by the digital media for this election has been awesome. PAS, Dean Knight, Steven Price, Stuff and the Herald and more. I think National, and Act in particular have greatly underestimated the new media territory. Some examples,
http://www.medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=522
http://www.laws179.co.nz/2011/11/reading-tea-leaves-declaratory-judgment.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/5989843/Revealing-the-gap-between-NZs-rich-and-poor
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10766898 -
I think the thinly veiled point coming from our Finance minister and business leaders (ETA in this context) is that they want to be able to get on with doing business without the proles interfering no?
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/election-2011/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503012&objectid=10766872
Standout quotes,
Many argued that major reforms that might be in the country's long-term interests could be blocked by coalition partners because they were unpopular.
"Insofar as MMP forces you to pay attention to taking the public along with you, then in the long run that may not be a bad thing."In any fair minded country those quotes would sink the speaker, surely. And zing,
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/election-2011/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503012&objectid=10766877
Epsom wont like it ;-) -
“Labour constantly pretends they didn’t drive New Zealand into recession before the rest of the world."
From this point to the last he's not doing his forgetful leader any favours. -
Constitution mentioned for first time on this issue on TV3 liveblog. Rather than a downfall I would like to see a shoring up against the ability for politicians to flaunt so many things, come from this.
It touches upon the abuse of so many basic rights that we thought were held evident for us. -
Winston coins the problem for them beautifully...they are enchanted.