Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to simon g,
Bridges will go UP in the preferred PM question.
Sympathy vote will have increased later in the week.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to simon g,
Simon Lusk's name came up again today: he's been assisting Jami-Lee Ross.
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Nearby, a Capture postful of photos by our Jackson Perry & Jonathan Ganley.
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T' Others Way write up from Marty Duda and Sam Smith, and keep scrolling for heaps of photos of the evening by Reuben Raj.
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Murderer Donella Knox released on parole after counselling to understand her own mindset and with conditions including not publicly commenting.
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Hard News: NZ On Air and the bill that…, in reply to Russell Brown,
My media show’s production company, Top Shelf, has a Nielsen subscription and I assume the majority of others do too.
Unless Lee's company was skimping, I guess. Never the brightest.
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Not so fast. The first story could well continue: 'Yet his spitting on the waiter may not bring universal acclaim.'
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Legal Beagle: Last call on the Electoral…, in reply to izogi,
Parties are made up of the people whom they collectively choose to represent them in Parliament.
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why is it such a foregone conclusion that the party's executive is better at representing the party's voters than the list MPs who can't continue to work with it?Not quite. MMP works on the basis that list MPs are accountable to party *members*, not voters. The core assumption was that citizens would exert influence by joining political parties as well as by voting for them.
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to mark taslov,
thank you
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to mark taslov,
Vocabulary matters
And some of us have put quite a bit of effort into that - but without genuine political support and organising, it means very little. A decade of my life I won't get back.