Posts by Gareth Swain
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I suggest you boycott Eden Park
Surely the solution is for like-minded people to show up to games in huge numbers and drown out the boors. Much like Hadyn Green says over here:
This should not be a reason to not attend. This should be a reason to attend in vast numbers. There will be so-many broadminded people that our non-gendered non-homophobic insults towards the opposition and referees will blot out the sun
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Thanks for that, Kier.
It's not common here in Japan. Mind you, there doesn't seem to be much need for something like that here.
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to JoJo,
So we texted the security people
[A long-term overseas resident asks...]
You can text security? Really?!
That's a great idea. -
Thanks to Sacha, Bart, and Yamis.
Thought so.
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I have a question.
The Herald article says
$23 million would be allocated in the Budget to pay people who cared for a disabled adult family member [but] the new policy did not extend payments to spouses of disabled adults or parents of disabled children. [...] If payments were extended to all carers and all disabled adults - not just high needs - the cost to the Government would jump to $65 million.
I have lived outside NZ for a long time now so it's very possible that I've lost touch with these things, but isn't $65 million a very small amount as far as budgets go? Among the various billions listed in national budgets, roughly $40 million in savings seems like such a small amount for the government to be making such a high-risk move as suspending the normal law-making processes.