Posts by Matthew Poole
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Hard News: Te Qaeda and the God Squad, in reply to Sacha,
Emily Bailey’s response to the IPCA report.
I got as far as "which is a rarity from that institution which rarely criticizes unlawful or immoral acts of the NZ police force" and stopped. The IPCA has been quite forthright in criticising the Police.
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Hard News: Competing for Auckland, in reply to Sacha,
Talk about going out of his way to spook the horses!
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OnPoint: What Andrew Geddis Said, But…, in reply to Sacha,
contrasts our govt’s visionless and nasty response with what’s happening over the Tasman.
When Australia is ahead of us on any social policy, something is wrong with what we're doing. Once upon a time that was an article of faith.
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OnPoint: What Andrew Geddis Said, But…, in reply to Lilith __,
Chch ppl … have a right to self-determination.
Your name has been noted, citizen. Your corporatist overlords will be sending re-education specialists to your location momentarily, to address your disturbing display of unwillingness to bow before the paternalist puppet-masters who have hold of your city’s strings.
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OnPoint: What Andrew Geddis Said, But…, in reply to Emma Hart,
You are thinking of the people of Christchurch Central, who don’t live there any more, because it’s gone.
Ah, yes, my bad. However, the wider Canterbury area also didn't express particular disgust with their National Party MPs over the whole ECan thing.
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OnPoint: What Andrew Geddis Said, But…, in reply to George Darroch,
it might be the people of Canterbury, or any other affected population.
You mean those same people of Canterbury who elected a National Party MP into the formerly safe-Labour-seat of Christchurch East? That "affected population"?
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This whole thing just makes me so impotently furious. And the impotence just makes me more furious. Seriously, what can be done? Pretty much fucking nothing, as best I can tell, because these fuckers sure don't give a fuck about public opinion. And I'm quite certain that nowhere near enough people who own guns are going to get outraged and storm Parliament for it to matter.
I should just be enjoying having a five-day-old son but, no, I have to have this shit charging around in my head as well.
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OnPoint: What Andrew Geddis Said, But…, in reply to Idiot Savant,
In the case of so many policies national is rejecting ATM – food in schools, extended paid parental leave, or non-discriminatory home-care for the disabled – the costs are not unaffordable. Its just that these things rank behind irrigation subsidies to farmers and low taxes on the rich in National’s queue
Don't forget umpty-billion-dollar motorways with negative economic returns, either.
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Hard News: Competing for Auckland, in reply to BenWilson,
Property is by far the biggest amount of capital in this country
I was doing a bit of research into the proposal to change the Fire Service Levy from an insurance charge to a local rates charge, and came across the staggering figure that the aggregate value of residential property in NZ (a couple of years ago, too, IIRC) was around $650 billion. That's just residential property, never mind property that supports the revenue-generating economy.
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Hard News: Competing for Auckland, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
If he and Steven Joyce left the country who would be left to run anything?
Paula Rebstock is still here isn't she? Dame Margaret Bazely is still above ground, too.