Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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A shameless amateur speaking here, but I thought that radioactive material does not come under the HSNO Act.
Yellowcake is also toxic.
HSNO Act, s 2:
hazardous substance means, unless expressly provided otherwise by regulations, any substance—
(a) with 1 or more of the following intrinsic properties:
(i) explosiveness:
(ii) flammability:
(iii) a capacity to oxidise:
(iv) corrosiveness:
(v) toxicity (including chronic toxicity):
(vi) ecotoxicity, with or without bioaccumulation; or(b) which on contact with air or water (other than air or water where the temperature or pressure has been artificially increased or decreased) generates a substance with any 1 or more of the properties specified in paragraph (a).
Section 51 of the HSNO Act deals with transhipment:
51 Transhipment of substances and organisms
(1) Nothing in this Act shall apply to any hazardous substance or new organism transhipped through New Zealand where any person has—(a) received approval from the Authority to tranship the hazardous substances or new organism; and
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I would say that one good reason for the by-election is to (assuming that Hone wins) establish his hold on the electorate and thus enable those considering voting for the Mana Party at the general election to be sure that their votes will not be wasted.
That assumes that his opponents will contest. If his major opponent comes from the McGillicuddy Serious Party like Winston's did in 1993, or the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party like Tariana's did in 2004, the precedent will be worth much less.
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So they've still been screwed out of their option to switch for 2014?
Only if the census never happens. I don't imagine that will be the case.
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How will Maori get the option to change rolls now that the census is canceled?
After the next census is held. Given that there is a general election this year, even had the census been held this year, the Maori option, and the redrawing of the boundaries would have been delayed until next year.
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It's a fact that not only have all of Elisabeth Windsor's children's marriages ended in divorce
Uh, Edward and Sophie?
And Charles and Camilla.
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Sadly, Bronagh Key has let New Zealand down – Julia Gillard was wearing a much sillier hat.
John Key let us down too. You don't get many occasions to dress up really fancy, and he declined to take it up.
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I have only ever made two OIA requests.
I'm pretty sure that's not true. Ringing up some departmental office and asking what time they're open is an OIA request :-)
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Point. And they’ll also likely post the submissions.
I'm not so sure. They didn't even put a media release telling people to apply.
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Which is to say they could tell the ombudsmen to eff off, but in practice they don’t
The NZDF can't tell the Ombudsman to eff off. As they're a government department, it would be up to Cabinet.
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Can you scan that and put it up please? There are some new unregistered parties crying out for wikipages, but need independent sources.
I was wondering when you'd turn up, I/S.
I'm not sure an email from the EC counts as an independent source ... original research, maybe?
Simplest to wait for a couple of weeks. The Commission will make its interim allocation and will hopefully put that up on its website. Then it will be "official". You should get a news story or two to go along with it.