Posts by Kevin McCready
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Questions of transparency, paygrades, profits and superprofits are still open. And I know these, especially the later, may not apply to Public Address. In a more perfect world it would be nice to see them handled in a public funding model.
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Great post and discussion. A tangent here. The evening TV news stories and even their ordering are so identical across stations as to be more than a coincidence. What's going on?
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Scrapping GST would be good too. It's a disgusting regressive tax.
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Thanks for the post Steven. I didn't know until I was 28 years old that I could live a life without screaming at people. Biggest thing I then learned is that I was responsible for my own emotions. To blame others for the way I felt was to give them power over me. The Jung quote on the pamphlet is similar - pity it had to be a Jung quote though. My pet hate now are social workers sucked into the postmodernist vortex. Anyway, sounds like you're sorted or getting there. Congrats on helping others. william blake, "girly"? Hope you were attempting a bad joke?
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Hard News: There in half the time:…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
petrol engine kits
hmmm, missing the point?
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Hard News: There in half the time:…, in reply to Shaun Lott,
a firm flat hand on the back panel of a car makes a wonderful sound
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Hard News: There in half the time:…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I wear HI-VIZ and even then I always assume I am invisible to cars.
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Bart, it's highly debatable whether jailing people sends an effective deterrent message. Roger Brookings' book Flying Blind certainly says no, despite the apparent "common sense" of the proposition.
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Dennis, read the book and you might grasp it. Professor John Pratt and Anna Eriksson, Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation of Anglophone Excess and Nordic Exceptionalism (2012 Routledge, ISBN: 9780415524735)
The point is the willful ignorance of people who should know better making comments based on their "reckons" rather than with a knowledge of the science. It's like climate deniers saying "see a cold day, there's no such thing as global warming."
For background, John says the Sensible Sentencing Trust contributes to the process of penal populism (Laura Norder) whereby victims groups gain political influence. Garth McVicar appears to be opposed to the rehabilitation of prisoners. In November 2011 the Sunday Star Times ran an article about the book, Flying Blind, by alcohol and drug counsellor, Roger Brooking, in which Mr Brooking advocates "setting up a drug court, increasing rehabilitation programmes, and investing in halfway houses." Mr McVicar responded with a press release saying: "The fact that two thirds of prisoners have drug and alcohol problems is not the fault of Corrections or prison" and that "therapy would be a good Tui Bill Board promotion – but a disastrous Corrections policy."
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The usual Duncan Garner. He just doesn't get it that jail is the crime. Pity. Someone in his position has a responsibility to inform himself about best practice in criminology.