Posts by Sanya Baker
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Capture: Where have you been all Summer?, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Katharine, I hope you don't mind me sharing my enthusiasm for your post here on Twitter. It is just beautiful.
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Legal Beagle: Into the River/Interim Restrictions, in reply to Tamsin6,
There is a response from the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) here: [http://www.lianza.org.nz/lianzas-response-river-ban]. Happily, the rather shocking advice that libraries must not only remove the book from shelves but also remove reference to the book from library search results was revised earlier today by Internal Affairs.
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Legal Beagle: Into the River/Interim Restrictions, in reply to Tamsin6,
Yes, Tamsin, we are, which is where the contention that this was making access difficult for young people aged 14 and over came in. And this applies to the ban as well. Librarians have been reminded by our professional association this morning that not only is _Into the River_ to be removed from shelves but also "off your search catalogues".
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Darn, I did want to suggest:
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Child poverty
and second:
Inequality
but missed the deadline.
Happy voting everyone. -
Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
Interesting; I was on the receiving end of the exact same polling question a year or so ago. It send cold shivers through me then.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to TracyMac,
Stop throwing each other under the bus, and get back to "power to the people". ALL the people.
+1
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Hard News: Meanwhile back at the polls, in reply to Grant Taylor,
If Colin Craig manages an electorate "accommodation" I wouldn't see his entry to Parliament as anything other than buying his way in - he certainly purchased most of the media attention he has garnered over the last 6 years with his own personal fortune.
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I'm voting for "reasonable person", as in, "any reasonable person would..." or "no reasonable person would..."
Because, of course, any reasonable person would want to think they were a reasonable person. -
Congratulations on the re-launch!
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To my mind, one of the benefits of the current system of lists is that candidates with non-geographical constituencies, in other words representing communities of interest that are scattered geographically, can also attract support. If we were to move to a system based on electorate support even for list candidates we would be elevating communities of geography above communities of other interests in selecting both categories of MP. Personally, I think this would mean that Parliament became less representative.