Posts by Sacha
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What seems to have been missed from the whole conversation this week is that the right bloc has been steadily declining in polls since the last election and the left bloc rising to above 50% (with Winston included) - regardless of Labour's share of that total. FPP is alive and well in far too many newsrooms and minds.
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Hard News: That escalated quickly ..., in reply to Doug Hood,
A hidden site feature for you Doug - if you highlight the text you want to quote before you click Reply, it gets automagically pasted and formatted as a quote. I miss this feature on other sites.
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Access: A short disability history of…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Started with the 13 members of the co-design group. From what I can tell it looks like the perspectives include roughly:
1 Maori, 1 Asian, 1 Pasifika and 10 Pakeha;
1 person with impaired intellect, 3 with impaired mobility and 8 either not impaired or type not mentioned;
5 disabled people, 2 parents, 4 disabled persons organisations (DPOs), 5 service providers and 3 govt (some overlaps so doesn't total 13). -
Hard News: On benefit fraud, in reply to ,
I notice a sort of swagger some people have when I visit the supermarket down the bottom of college hill. It's a sort of confidence that says I'm doing ok, l'm in the bubble.
Eastern suburbs have that vibe when I venture there. Two nations.
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Metiria Turei interview clip from Q&A (12 mins).
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Hard News: On benefit fraud, in reply to Moz,
In reality she likely had a housemate and didn't declare their rent payments.
It would be interesting if both got in trouble for the same thing. This passage survived some rapid redacting of a Fairfax article this morning shortly after initial publication:
Another truckie, Rex Howie, says he knew Bennett and her then boyfriend, truck driver Alan Philps, or "Philpsy", who'd helped to set up the tattoo club.
Bennett re-connected with Philps later in life and they married in 2012.
The pair were living together at a place in Lake Tutira, 40km north of Napier, Howie says, and Bennett also rented a place in Wellesley Rd, Napier.
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Hard News: This is bad – very bad, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
religious upbringing by any chance?
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Hard News: On benefit fraud, in reply to Moz,
I have heard allegations she was receiving undeclared income from a rental property.
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Hard News: On benefit fraud, in reply to Roland Askew,
Anecdotal word is
Oh, there's evidence beyond that. No shame.
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Hard News: On benefit fraud, in reply to Katharine Moody,
she never deliberately lied
Bennett's wording in the RNZ interview included "I never lied to them as such". Now, what could that mean .. ?