Posts by Idiot Savant
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Eddie: cherry-picking simply demonstrates your own intellectual dishonesty.
The majority of the guests are representatives of the business community. Here's the Herald's assessment:
The guest list, released on Monday night, includes only three people from the community sector: Auckland City Missioner Diane Robertson, Salvation Army social services director Campbell Roberts and a policy adviser for the disability group DPA, Wendi Wicks.
Instead, 118 of the 194 invited are from the business sector - mostly from big businesses (62) and finance (22), but including 30 from smaller businesses and sector groups and four from state-owned enterprises.
The rest are from central and local government, education and training organisations, unions, iwi groups and a handful of academics and researchers.
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A problem is starting to emerge. Like the four-day week, it's being presented as a no-loss option. Employers get to reduce their labour costs and keep going, while employees get to keep their jobs and have time off for "leisure" or training. At a cost of 20% of their pay. Ahem.
Which is what happens when you invite only rich business-owners to these sorts of things: complete obliviousness to how it looks from the other end.
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3,700 jobs isn't something to be pooh-poohed at
It is if they pay third-world wages. $2.50 an hour? Is that the fat-cats future vision of New Zealand?
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A cycleway the length of NZ! Be still my heart!
But will it go over the auckland Harbour bridge?
Anyway, as the people funding the talkfest, aren't we *entitled* to know who said what?
Seconded. in this case, using Chatham house just seems like an attempt to avoid accountability.
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has anyone else noticed that bees seem to be coming back?
Yes - I've stood on two in the last couple of weeks. I wish they'd stay away!
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Woo-hoo!
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He used the s92A debate to say some extraordinarily vicious things about bloggers generally (the usual never-wash, have-no-girlfriend stuff).
Did he name any names, or just froth in general?
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Tumeke has a nice mosaic of the blackout here.
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I particualrly like the bit about emotional screeching. So true, so true.....
Yup. Sums up the Sensible Sentencing Trust (and the ACT party) in one.
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Meanwhile, if you want to try your hand at making non-shit legislation, or fixing existing shit legislation, then you can join the New Zealand Progressive Bills Project. But you'll need to create your own moral panics.
(Well, its marginally relevant).