Posts by Damian Christie
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If I can just throw a plug in here - next week's Hindsight (TVNZ 7, Tuesday, 9.30pm) is on the topic of prisons too, and has interviews with both Garth & Kim, as well some really poignant clips - there's one from the 1960s where Mt Eden is about to be closed down, Paremoremo is about to be opened, there'll never be double bunking there, D-block is the way of the future, and in 50 years time we'll be able to close all the prisons down because we won't need them!
After all I'd read I was still kinda surprised to find that Garth's answer was to lock more people up than we currently are.
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I actually felt a bit uncomfortable with the whole Campbell treatment to be honest. I know he’s got it in for Destiny, and fair enough, nothing wrong with a bit of one-eyed journalism, but he seemed incredulous that Tau, Shane and Hone wouldn’t join in with him.
They all made it pretty clear (Tau explicitly so), they were there to shake hands and kiss babies with a big Maori audience in an election year. I wouldn’t expect them to speak out against Destiny any more than I’d expect Phil Goff or John Key to attend a Catholic Mass and use that as an opportunity to decry the church’s position on abortion, contraception and homosexuality, or that its priests fiddle with kids. Time and place.
@Cecilia – once the Shrek nonsense was over, Close Up had a rather good piece with my mate Wallace Chapman vs the guy from Pharmac. Benefits of MySky is no Shrek and the best of both channels :)
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Also, I know many of you will hate this man, but I don't, and I quite like this:
(also, he sings it with Mark Seymour, so that kinda counts)
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Yeah, me too. The internet revived and reinvented my relationship with music.
I had this argument on friendbook the other day, re Jon Bon Jovi's comments that Steve Jobs killed music. I think the iPod, the MP3 etc, has not only revived, but actually created an interest in music for millions of people who wouldn't otherwise have much in their lives. By creating a new Walkman that everyone needed to have, the product has very much driven the desire for content.
Much like the iPad has done for Angry Birds I guess.
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Ha, I was round at your floor manager's house the other day, digging through exactly that box - it's gems aplenty, and yes, I too dragged out Throw Your Arms Around Me and remembered my first flat on The Terrace...
I also managed to snaffle one of three copies in her box of Paul Hardcastle's '19', cos while I have a big collection of 80s 7", that one had eluded me. Thanks Sarah!
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Amongst Indonesian Muslims, [confidence in Bin Laden] dropped from 59% to 26%.
Shouldn't this stat be a little concerning? I mean, there are 200 million (give or take) Muslims in Indonesia, so what, around 50 million support Bin Laden? Or am I misreading something...
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I just realised that I should've called this post "Dr Brash and Mr Hide". DAMMIT
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@Ben - a lot of National voters don't like Act, but they are also demonstrably smarter than the Epsom Labour voters when it comes to voting tactically. National had already said they weren't going to stand anyone strong in Epsom, so while it's academic now, I still think it was pretty much a fader-complee :)
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@Paul - I think Act would always win Epsom though wouldn't they? So the votes would never be wasted. I think Brash is genuinely disaffected with National, rolled by the populist vaguely centrist Key.. they might work together, but I don't think it's a plan by the Nats.
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@Tim - With respect (and I'm prepared to be wrong) I'm not sure if you do remember rightly, I think ACT has always had this dilemma. I don't think Douglas is exactly a dyed in the wool libertarian. The focus has always been far more about economic liberalism (Unfinished Business), and as much as the party's manifesto makes lots of libertarian noises, there's always been this Conservative/Libertarian split. It pisses a lot of the young people off.
Ironically, the 'rejuvenation' of Act looks likely to result in Banks, Brash and Douglas (is he sticking around, I can't recall)...all of whom have something of a grandfatherly whiff about them. Time for a young vibrant party of the right...