Posts by Idiot Savant
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Which brings me back to Sydney, or Melbourne for that matter
I've used public transport in both, and I've used public transport in Auckland. Australia is better.
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Urgency has been moved and Government Notice of Motion No 2 (Establishment of select committee on Auckland governance) debate is beinning now.
But what's this Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill they've sprung out of nowhere? Screwing over tenants in favour of landlords again...?
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Sounds like they're stealing the rail corridor. So, no rail for Auckland, because national will build a dirty great road in the way.
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Map in here (p6)
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Spot the fix:
Mr Roche said the new route would cost approximately $1.4 billion and could be completed in around four years. This cost includes associated SH16 works and is in 2015 dollars.
So, were the other optiosn in 2015 $, or in 2009?
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It's a remarkably arrogant move. Remarkable.
But very typical of how National operates.
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Think I'll go and spend the afternoon in Midnight's instead then..
That would be an afternoon well spent.
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Joshua, not looking like they're online yet. Gotta love that engagement of the democratic process, when legislation affecting the home city of 1/3 of the population isn't even available for consideration before it gets debated.
And that is the very reason why National are using urgency.
Look back on their six months in government: every controversial bill has been introduced in this way, in order to keep them secret till the last possible minute and deny the public any chance to do antyhing about it until its a fair accompli. It's the old Douglas blitzkrieg all over again - just like they did in the 90's.
(and because some wingnut will undoubtedly allege it, no, Labour didn't make a habit of doing this. but partly that's because they were hamstrung by needing the support of parties who would react badly to such tactics, rather than anti-democrats who designed them. One of the benefits of MMP and coalition government...)
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Russell, I appreciate and fully agree this carefully worded explanation of her unsuitability. Separately, I do wonder if National won't benefit somewhat from her appointment ~ with a different political cohort who see her as a real moderate in a sea of femo-nazis.
Yeah, but they already had their votes. Whereas they've just likely just lost some from sane people.
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Someone asked an interesting question upthread along the lines of 'who benefits?', or to put it more crudely, 'where's the money?'.
Rich of Observationz nailed it: the government's anti-debt stance is about keeping interest rates for business low - effectively subsidising their private profits by sacrificing the rest of us.