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Moving On

June 27th, 2007 at 8:20 am by David Farrar

Was somewhat alarmed to find a small photo of me on the front page of Computerworld with the headline “Chucking it in: Farrar moves on”.

Inside this story covers my impeding semi-retirement from InternetNZ.

Somewhat ironically I am the person who proposed (two x two years) term limits for Officers in 2002 and having been elected Vice-President in 2003, I am the first person to be affected by them and facing compulsory retirement. Despite this I remain a fan of term limits because they do prevent people staying in a job so long that they remain stale.

As the article says I’m still going to be involved with a few issues, and have just been reappointed to the .nz Registry Services Board, so definitely not a complete break.

Related posts:

  1. The case for term limits
  2. I agree with Twyford
  3. Compulsory Super?
  4. Cullen on KiwiSaver and superannuation
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8 Responses to “Moving On”

  1. Zippy Gonzales Says:
    June 27th, 2007 at 9:34 am

    Maybe they want you to do a Putin.

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  2. Redbaiter Says:
    June 27th, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    Actually, introducing two term limits for politicians would be one of the best things for democracy this country could ever do.

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  3. Elvis Says:
    June 27th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    You think reports of YOUR moving on were exaggerated. Spare a thought for me! Y’all.

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  4. Llew Says:
    June 27th, 2007 at 2:24 pm

    “Actually, introducing two term limits for politicians would be one of the best things for democracy this country could ever do.”

    In theory I agree, in practise within a few terms we’d exhaust the talent supply.

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  5. Redbaiter Says:
    June 27th, 2007 at 2:37 pm

    Not if we reduced the numbers to say 20. 120 is just ridiculous and I just do not know how a friggin democratic country could do such a thing to itself.

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  6. Peter S Says:
    June 27th, 2007 at 4:03 pm

    “In theory I agree, in practise within a few terms we’d exhaust the talent supply.”

    Llew,

    Surely the pool is not that shallow. After all, there is a pitifully small amount of talent in there at present.

    Actuall I think it is a great idea. If we exhaust the supply of politicians from the source we have been drawing upon we might actually get some people with real skills & talents in there for a change. ;-P

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  7. Anthony Says:
    June 27th, 2007 at 11:32 pm

    At least they used a nice photo of you David.

    I don’t suppose this blog is yet the place to mention the ructions in InternetNZ. All sorts of people have been asked to stand.

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  8. Llew Says:
    June 28th, 2007 at 8:53 am

    “Not if we reduced the numbers to say 20″

    Heh. That’d work I suppose – on a national level, I was thinking about city councils though.

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