Posts by George Darroch
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Thanks Russell.
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There will never be better people in politics than we have now if we don't try to put them there (or keep them, as the case may be).
How democratic do you feel the Labour Party is?
I have in the past had the impression that being a member of that institution meant little when it came to actual political direction and reality (members being little more than free envelope-pushers), but I may have been mistaken, or things may have changed.
I don't want to judge from a point of historical prejudice.
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Wearing my elected rep hat: I recieved news this morning that an estimated 20k people would move to Auckland from Chch, something that I'll be asking for firmer estimates because, you know, an extra 20k people is alot of housing to find, jobs, social services, etc, and we can't magic it up.
Whipping off said hat.Which is true, but in the last decade Auckland has been adding a new Dunedin in just over every two years. If there's a city that could take that without blinking, it's Auckland. But there are probably other places that need the bost more.
What it does prove, in my simple mind, is the need for new housing stock across New Zealand. My simple mind also thinks the Government should be building and controlling a share of these, to provide and put downwards pressure on prices and rents. Somehow, I doubt we'll see this in Christchurch.
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I'm desperately looking at the demographics myself and I think that I might just be able to fall into the crack between "Baby Boomer" and "Generation X". Phew! A close shave that! How about you?
Technically I'm a Y (post 79) but I feel more like an X. Is grunge back yet?
Just chatted with a couple of Chch friends, one of whom leaves for Darwin (!) on the 10th of March, and the other is tossing up between Perth and Brisbane.
... I can't condemn them.
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Let's hope things change before the grim reaper cuts all the useful people at TV off at the knees.
I'm sensing murder.
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it's definitely a bummer, but as I said above somewhere, nothing's ever secure in this industry, and a run this long (not to mention unprecedented advance notice that it's going to end) is still something to celebrate.
Sadness round here, rather than anger. It's almost like it was a privilege that we knew that could be taken away at any moment.
Not much lasts when the budgets are being cut left right and centre. Even less in a commercial organisation like TVNZ.
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Exit Planet Dust came out in 1995.
Or you were 11, and heard Block Rocking Beats for the first time, and were amazed that music could do that.
Having just returned from Australia, and the place I'm in doesn't have a digital thing, I still haven't actually seen 7. I'll probably see it on some program 25 years from now, about a shortlived experiment in quality television. Of course, by then only old people will watch television.
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I see I'm going to have to send a stunt double.
I'll oblige.
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I don't think a culture has been sufficiently imparted into the police, or council. I don't know whose failure has led to this lack of socialisation, but it should be quite clear that in a situation like this that NZSL is not something to be tacked on but a crucial part of the response.
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gouging on an essential service is seen in a highly negative light.
And the opposite, offering an essential service at highly reduced rates, as Air New Zealand did with their $50 fares to and from Christchurch, is seen in an incredibly positive light. It increases the tendency of people to work together.
It may have cost them millions, but it will have generated considerable brand loyalty. Qantas' charge to the NSW police force for the charter flight will have done the opposite to their brand.