Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The media awards are dead –…, in reply to Lilith __,
punmeister
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Hard News: The media awards are dead –…, in reply to Damian Christie,
a bit like distinguishing between variations in electronic music
indeed, indeed
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Polity: Decrypting “social investment”, in reply to Marc C,
what the CTU's Bill Rosenberg had to say about the government's investment approach
a great read, thanks.
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Hard News: Crowded houses, in reply to B Jones,
and 'unaccountable' in Thorndon-speak sometimes just means 'we can't make em do what we want'.
Not necessarily a bad thing if the results are good. But hey, who measures results? Too busy inserting caveats about intervention logics into purchasing agreements.
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Polity: Decrypting “social investment”, in reply to Marc C,
Ta for yours again. Rob may have seen some Labour-only material as well.
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Polity: Decrypting “social investment”, in reply to Tinakori,
I'd be careful of criticising working/not working too much. Without the ability to try new things you can develop nothing innovative and without the freedom to fail you become far too cautious.
Agreed. Traditionally risk-averse organisations like central and local government need a way to ring-fence higher-risk trials, evaluate and govern them differently, and stop them cleanly when required.
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Hard News: Crowded houses, in reply to Russell Brown,
They have to go to the market and the market is enjoying a premium for taking poor people.
Who knew markets wouldn't work in desperate asymmetric situations like emergency housing, eh?
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Someone please acquaint Labour with this sort of evidence:
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Hard News: Crowded houses, in reply to Russell Brown,
the fact that they're contracted to W&I to provide these units on a consistent basis surely means the negotiated cost should be far lower. Can anyone explain this?
Work and Income are piss-poor negotiators, just like the current cabinet?
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I think trying new things is a reasonable idea, so long as you’re doing it properly. And, in this case, there’s evidence emerging that lots of the trials didn’t work.
Do you have any good links to share about that, or is it internal party OIAs, etc?
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