Posts by Gareth Ward
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My son looking at her on Close Up tonight announced she was wearing a set of curtains
I look forward to reading your's sons teacher reports and medical records in the Herald tomorrow. It will "round out his story"
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Also, this is another one of Keith's Posts That I Don't Understand.
Which is understandable.
We probably do need a bit of a Plain England version if it's to make any kind of MSM impact.... -
Craig, why are you so insistent that it's "spin gone bad"?
These two women were quoted in a Herald story. They both seem to have relatively high demands on the cash they receive (the one making "the big bucks" has three children, two of whom have serious medical needs).Their only spin was that taking away that allowance meant they couldn't continue in higher education because they didn't have enough spare money to do it. Plastering their benefit levels all over the Herald without ANY reference to what that money has to go on and what they have spare to pay for higher education is nothing to do with busting their spin.
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Although admittedly, tried to start my own tumblr and then kinda forgot about it
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Re twitter - never joined, but I've always preferred the concept of Tumblr. Still a "stream o thought" thing that can be followed by friends, but goes beyond short text only and includes sharing video, images, quotes and links that you find and like.
www.tumblr.com
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multi-factor productivity - that is, growth in output holding labour and capital constant. Now increasing this kind of productivity is fairly unambiguously desirable - a free lunch of sorts.
That's kinda misrepresenting MFP though - it's considering the best combination of inputs to get a growth in output. As opposed to looking at labour and assuming that growth comes from other factors.
It's very tough to define though, and very hard to measure, so is unlikely to be used as the official measure here. It also doesn't strike me as allowing for a great deal of prescriptive policy
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George, that was bloody interesting. Thanks.
Seconded.
And there has been regular reference to a "liquid" labour market at the edges. The type of shift you're talking about there directly addresses that -
Craig I agree - he was entirely entitled to run a provocation defence. I would like to be sure that it was all of his own making though, rather than the defence team making it up to suit.
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I think it's a stretch to paint Brash's time as RB Governor as a major driver of our productivity issues. Happy to have the discussion as to whether the Reserve Banks ACT's focus on inflation control constrains growth, but I don't know that he personally took decisions that he wasn't made to by that focus (wage inflation being the obvious one)
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The key thing is to change the law and remove provocation as a partial defence, so no other lawyer or defendant can put a victim's family through what the Elliotts have endured.
Any provocation can be a matter for the Judge at sentencing, but should not be a way to escape a murder conviction.
Agreed, but unsure of the mechanism - do we have degrees of murder? Or just sentencing mitigation? The latter lumps all murder together really, am unsure of where I sit on that.