Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Sacha,
A story going around this afternoon. I will check for verification tomorrow. There may be cause for suspicion--the current Chancellor is Jim Bolger.
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Well, I have just returned home from a talk by Nicky Hager at the University of Waikato. Despite pathetic attempts by the university administration to limit publicity (dept secretaries were prohibited from distributing news about it), it attracted a crowd of 750 people (two linked lecture theatres). He gave a great speech, answered multiple questions, and got a standing ovation,
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to jeremy botham,
Hey, cut that out!
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to jeremy botham,
Hang on a bit, Jeremy. I think that Barnaby raises some very interesting questions. I wasn’t aware of some of these dodgy connections.
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Hard News: Why we thought what we thought, in reply to Teej,
Welcome
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Minor correction (in the spirit of the times ): the story was on the NZH site and the JK portrait hangs in his boardroom.
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The thlot pickens! An interesting little item on stuff reports that the purchaser of Hotchin's monument to self-regard on Paratai Drive is the NZ CEO of Orovida, who reputedly has a portrait of John Key hanging in his new abode.
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Up Front: Oh, God, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
I feel no fear here-- just a genuine concern that one religious creed dominates public life in New Zealand, and intrudes into schooling where it shouldn't.
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Of course Religious education, Bible classes ... whatever ... must be opt-in and not opt-out, and should be general policy.
The only memory I have of bible stuff growing up in a small Taranaki town was the rather dismal bible class dances which largely constituted social life in those days. No much opportunity to explore my Jewish heritage either.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Rich; do think seriously about this. A vote for Finlayson means a vote for National.