Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Strange days for journalism, in reply to Carol Stewart,
Strange days indeed .. Jim Hopkins is almost making sense today.
In a very confused way ...
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Thanks for doing this Jon. I'm coming to come back and take a long, long look at these images.
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Hard News: The frustrating politics of…, in reply to Terry Baucher,
The Economist must read Public Address, Russell because look what today’s_Daily Chart is
Heh. And you have to ask yourself: are we prepared to drag >10% of our population through the courts.
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Hard News: The frustrating politics of…, in reply to Will de Cleene,
Fair call.
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Hard News: The frustrating politics of…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Ahh, Helen Clark. I’d almost forgotten what a proper Prime Minister was like.
I interviewed her a couple of times as Leader of the Opposition. She was bracingly frank and extremely lucid.
She got less so after becoming Prime Minister, it must be said.
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Hard News: The frustrating politics of…, in reply to Craig Young,
Part of the problem is the pot decriminalisation lobby’s own disorganisation and purism, to put it bluntly. Let’s put it this way- regardless of the scale of particular social movements, they need strategic professional allies to make the case for legislative reform and evidence-based research to back it. Now, I accept that exists in abundance for medicinal cannabis, which is why I support its decriminalisation.
I know that people in a position to effect change have been frequently frustrated by individuals in the decriminalisation lobby. I have occasionally felt that way myself.
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Hard News: The frustrating politics of…, in reply to dc_red,
A term that always struck me as inherently contradictory. For the life of me, I can’t see the offence (other than in the most narrow legalistic terms).
Rick Bryant got out of prison a few days ago. I struggle to see his incarceration as a good investment for the taxpayer.
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Hard News: The frustrating politics of…, in reply to Richard Aston,
I am not sure I’d call the current Green Party drug law policy that distant. They are still advocating for law reform , an educational focus and medical cannabis.
Nah, I'll stand by that. They've never distanced themselves from the policy, but I think it was felt by some senior members that having Nandor as the effective face of the party was unhelpful.
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Hard News: The frustrating politics of…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Yeah, while it’s very sad what happened to Anderton’s daughter (?), people with a emotional baggage in a problem usually aren’t the ones to deal with that problem rationally.
Anderton's daughter suffered from severe depression and took her own life. One of his sons was, however, an addict and suffered through that.
But from what I'm told, Anderton gets a bit of a bum rap on this. He apparently did listen to evidence and changed his mind more than once on that basis.
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Hard News: Strange days for journalism, in reply to Angus Robertson,
If Gina Rinehart dumps 20% of Fairfax the price will fall, but not because Gina Rinehart is dumping 20% of Fairfax stock.
I think we're going to have to strongly disagree on that one, Angus. I think dumping 20% of the company would see the stock tank.
The price will fall because Fairfax probably can’t cut costs fast enough to avoid it going bust without some investment. The price will fall because no one is willing to buy a company that is going bust.
I'm still not clear on exactly what magic Rinehart is supposed to bring here. She's buying shares 90% off their peak for reasons which appear to have nothing at all to do with the good of the company. That actually does nothing for Fairfax's bottom line.
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