Hard News: Imagining Auckland: no thanks, actually ...
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Le Louvre and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg are different because they are part art gallery, part sculpture garden, part Athropology museum*, part royal palace in aspic and part work of art in the buildings themselves. One of my abiding memories of the Hermitage was the building itself, the contents were almost secondary.
Oh and if you are in Paris, by all means do the Louvre but don't forget the Musee D'Orsay over the river. More sculpture than paintings but wonderful in every sense of the word.
*in the form of a Scythian log burial chamber from the southern steppes.
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Regarding OIA requests (and resisting the urge to defend NZs most successful museum)...
The UK site, http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/, has been going for 1 year and has just celebrated its 10,000th FOI request.
Just waiting for Rob McKinnon to extend theyworkforyou.org.nz in a similar direction, after he's done 'fixmystreet'.
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I don't understand why these decisions ( structure of Auckland Governance) will be rushed. It's off to cabinet for a decision on Monday. As I understand it there is to be no time for public consultation on the Model arrived at by Peter Salmon.
The chance to get a representative council is going to be much more difficult than at present.
I'm surprised there hasn't been more comment, but I guess it does take a while to fully digest an 800 page document.
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Scoop's collation of stories about the Royal Commission includes a variety of responses, many focused on the proposed representational arrangements which Cabinet seem likely to tweak next week.
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John Roughan has a suggestion about the port, after reflecting about protecting neighbourhood trees:
merge the port company with Tauranga which could take the Tank Farm tomorrow, along with the cars and bananas behind the red fence.
Not sure how he plans to mitigate the resulting loss of local income and jobs, but the stuff about trees is probably representative of discussions around the region.
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