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		<title>By: NeillR</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-548226</link>
		<dc:creator>NeillR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This gets my goat. There are so many ads on TV either promoting some aspect of government or telling us how we should live. I know it all started under Labour, but it&#039;s time that National ran the ruler through some of these programs. I don&#039;t need to be told every five minutes that intersections are dangerous, or that it&#039;s time for a cervical smear. And on that note, if you see a Polynesian in a TV ad, you can be almost assured that it&#039;s an ad for some government agency or other.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This gets my goat. There are so many ads on TV either promoting some aspect of government or telling us how we should live. I know it all started under Labour, but it&#8217;s time that National ran the ruler through some of these programs. I don&#8217;t need to be told every five minutes that intersections are dangerous, or that it&#8217;s time for a cervical smear. And on that note, if you see a Polynesian in a TV ad, you can be almost assured that it&#8217;s an ad for some government agency or other.</p>
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		<title>By: Scott</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-548121</link>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Although I might agree somewhat with goodgod&#039;s main line of argument I still think civility is called for or else we will all be in a madhouse. I think free speech is only possible where there is respect and civility.Otherwise we end up just shouting at and abusing each other.
So I agree with DPF and think bad language should be punished with more demerits if anything.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Although I might agree somewhat with goodgod&#8217;s main line of argument I still think civility is called for or else we will all be in a madhouse. I think free speech is only possible where there is respect and civility.Otherwise we end up just shouting at and abusing each other.<br />
So I agree with DPF and think bad language should be punished with more demerits if anything.</p>
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		<title>By: OECD rank 22 kiwi</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-548120</link>
		<dc:creator>OECD rank 22 kiwi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The last government certainly did waste a lot of taxpayer&#039;s money on pointless advertising that served to irritate rather than inform.  It no doubt that contributed to Labour being unceremoniously booted out of office on 8 November 2008.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The last government certainly did waste a lot of taxpayer&#8217;s money on pointless advertising that served to irritate rather than inform.  It no doubt that contributed to Labour being unceremoniously booted out of office on 8 November 2008.</p>
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		<title>By: AG</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-548033</link>
		<dc:creator>AG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>FFS, you lot. Read DPF&#039;s demerits policy. &quot;20 points - abusive language&quot;. The consider these choice quotes from goodgod (that poet of the masses):

&quot;Fuck you and and your type.&quot;
&quot;As a minister you tried your hardest to butt-fuck NZ with a Heineken bottle&quot;
&quot;Jesus christ you smarmy little shit.&quot;
&quot;Fuck off, bitch.&quot;

You might not like DPF&#039;s demerits system ... in which case, you are more than free to boycott his blog. But you cannot seriously argue that goodgod did not breach the rules!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>FFS, you lot. Read DPF&#8217;s demerits policy. &#8220;20 points &#8211; abusive language&#8221;. The consider these choice quotes from goodgod (that poet of the masses):</p>
<p>&#8220;Fuck you and and your type.&#8221;<br />
&#8220;As a minister you tried your hardest to butt-fuck NZ with a Heineken bottle&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Jesus christ you smarmy little shit.&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Fuck off, bitch.&#8221;</p>
<p>You might not like DPF&#8217;s demerits system &#8230; in which case, you are more than free to boycott his blog. But you cannot seriously argue that goodgod did not breach the rules!</p>
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		<title>By: Manolo</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-548028</link>
		<dc:creator>Manolo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I could&#039;n agree more with the sentiment expressed by goodgod.  Harsh words but exactly the way many honest New Zealanders feel.

The demerit points are entirely unwarranted.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I could&#8217;n agree more with the sentiment expressed by goodgod.  Harsh words but exactly the way many honest New Zealanders feel.</p>
<p>The demerit points are entirely unwarranted.</p>
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		<title>By: big bruv</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-548022</link>
		<dc:creator>big bruv</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well said goodgod, I have checked out DPF&#039;s rules and I cannot see where you have breached them, IMHO the 30 demerits is not warranted.

Be brave, keep telling the truth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well said goodgod, I have checked out DPF&#8217;s rules and I cannot see where you have breached them, IMHO the 30 demerits is not warranted.</p>
<p>Be brave, keep telling the truth.</p>
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		<title>By: AG</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-548020</link>
		<dc:creator>AG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Slight technical point, DPF ... your demerits system states you&#039;ll give &quot;20 points – abusive language&quot; ... there actually is no penalty of &quot;30 points&quot;.

That said, goodgod can hardly whinge about getting pinged here. It&#039;s DPF&#039;s site, he&#039;s made it reasonably clear what he&#039;ll do if you engage in abusive language, and there&#039;s a difference between &quot;telling the truth&quot; (in Whaleoil world) and being an asshole.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Slight technical point, DPF &#8230; your demerits system states you&#8217;ll give &#8220;20 points – abusive language&#8221; &#8230; there actually is no penalty of &#8220;30 points&#8221;.</p>
<p>That said, goodgod can hardly whinge about getting pinged here. It&#8217;s DPF&#8217;s site, he&#8217;s made it reasonably clear what he&#8217;ll do if you engage in abusive language, and there&#8217;s a difference between &#8220;telling the truth&#8221; (in Whaleoil world) and being an asshole.</p>
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		<title>By: Patrick Starr</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-548016</link>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Starr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>demerits for that? check out racer @ 5:56 pm who got nothing. 
Is it what we say - or who we abuse?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>demerits for that? check out racer @ 5:56 pm who got nothing.<br />
Is it what we say &#8211; or who we abuse?</p>
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		<title>By: Whaleoil</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-548012</link>
		<dc:creator>Whaleoil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow 30 demerits for telling the truth. Are you in line for some board position or something?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow 30 demerits for telling the truth. Are you in line for some board position or something?</p>
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		<title>By: Barnsley Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-548011</link>
		<dc:creator>Barnsley Bill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bloody hell, what were those demerits for?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bloody hell, what were those demerits for?</p>
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		<title>By: goodgod</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-548003</link>
		<dc:creator>goodgod</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Very easy to criticise but consider the possibilty that I worked hard to expand McCully’s initiative was that the evidence was that he had got it right.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

You whiney little skirt-hider!  Where is your sneering arrogance now that Beloved is no longer in power?  Fuck you and and your type.  As a minister you tried your hardest to butt-fuck NZ with a Heineken bottle for nine long years and you dare come on here and plead hard work, no liability and competence?  Jesus christ you smarmy little shit.  At what point did you think that asking people to stick a green ballon on their letterbox, before they set out for a few minutes exercise, was a well researched idea? It was cynical self aggrandisement.  You wanted someone to go count those balloons, most likely on the taxpayers tab, and report back to validate how hard you thought you worked.  At what point did you figure that if that was the only way of getting feedback, you shouldn&#039;t waste millions of dollars on it?  At what point did you realise that if that was the goal of the promotion - justification of expense - then you really didn&#039;t give a shit about the exercise part.  At what point did you figure that maybe average joe just chucks junk mail away?  

Do you have the recent cardboard telecom photoframe by your bedside containng the picture of your favorite person and have you scribbled their phone number in the space provided so you don&#039;t forget?  You must have because it&#039;s what average people do, isn&#039;t it?  Isn&#039;t it?  It was mailed out to people, so it must have been eagerly accepted by them.  Why would it not have been?  

What the fuck do you know about average people?  Your government&#039;s promotions had nothing to do with reality - which you and your bunch left behind a long time ago - and nothing to do with encouraging exercise in the young or in anyone.  You&#039;re completely delusional.  Do you think that the M.O. of you and your socialist mates is unknown?  Whine, plead for sympathy, then snarl and hit back when adoration doesn&#039;t come?  Hopefully you&#039;ll try a similar approach at the pub one day, maybe one that offers cheap chardonnay at happy hour.  There won&#039;t be any media hoopla and news at six for you then, no half-arsed tussles in parliamentary corridors.  Fuck off, bitch.  Nobody cares what you thought you did over the past 9, 10, 15 years or ever.  We all lived the pointy end of it.  Our job was to fund it, over an over as you pissed it away.

[DPF: 30 demerits]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Very easy to criticise but consider the possibilty that I worked hard to expand McCully’s initiative was that the evidence was that he had got it right.</p></blockquote>
<p>You whiney little skirt-hider!  Where is your sneering arrogance now that Beloved is no longer in power?  Fuck you and and your type.  As a minister you tried your hardest to butt-fuck NZ with a Heineken bottle for nine long years and you dare come on here and plead hard work, no liability and competence?  Jesus christ you smarmy little shit.  At what point did you think that asking people to stick a green ballon on their letterbox, before they set out for a few minutes exercise, was a well researched idea? It was cynical self aggrandisement.  You wanted someone to go count those balloons, most likely on the taxpayers tab, and report back to validate how hard you thought you worked.  At what point did you figure that if that was the only way of getting feedback, you shouldn&#8217;t waste millions of dollars on it?  At what point did you realise that if that was the goal of the promotion &#8211; justification of expense &#8211; then you really didn&#8217;t give a shit about the exercise part.  At what point did you figure that maybe average joe just chucks junk mail away?  </p>
<p>Do you have the recent cardboard telecom photoframe by your bedside containng the picture of your favorite person and have you scribbled their phone number in the space provided so you don&#8217;t forget?  You must have because it&#8217;s what average people do, isn&#8217;t it?  Isn&#8217;t it?  It was mailed out to people, so it must have been eagerly accepted by them.  Why would it not have been?  </p>
<p>What the fuck do you know about average people?  Your government&#8217;s promotions had nothing to do with reality &#8211; which you and your bunch left behind a long time ago &#8211; and nothing to do with encouraging exercise in the young or in anyone.  You&#8217;re completely delusional.  Do you think that the M.O. of you and your socialist mates is unknown?  Whine, plead for sympathy, then snarl and hit back when adoration doesn&#8217;t come?  Hopefully you&#8217;ll try a similar approach at the pub one day, maybe one that offers cheap chardonnay at happy hour.  There won&#8217;t be any media hoopla and news at six for you then, no half-arsed tussles in parliamentary corridors.  Fuck off, bitch.  Nobody cares what you thought you did over the past 9, 10, 15 years or ever.  We all lived the pointy end of it.  Our job was to fund it, over an over as you pissed it away.</p>
<p>[DPF: 30 demerits]</p>
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		<title>By: Lee C</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-548002</link>
		<dc:creator>Lee C</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well I take more care while up a ladder now directly as a result of one of the ACC ads. Interesting ads, actually. They used to make me laugh until I realised they weren&#039;t trailers for a new sit-com. Now I take them very, very seriously.
Well, relatively seriously.

Actually, they still make me laugh . .. but at least I am more cautious up ladders.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I take more care while up a ladder now directly as a result of one of the ACC ads. Interesting ads, actually. They used to make me laugh until I realised they weren&#8217;t trailers for a new sit-com. Now I take them very, very seriously.<br />
Well, relatively seriously.</p>
<p>Actually, they still make me laugh . .. but at least I am more cautious up ladders.</p>
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		<title>By: big bruv</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-547968</link>
		<dc:creator>big bruv</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good point Adolf.

Come on Trev, whats the real gossip on that story?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good point Adolf.</p>
<p>Come on Trev, whats the real gossip on that story?</p>
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		<title>By: Adolf Fiinkensein</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-547964</link>
		<dc:creator>Adolf Fiinkensein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Funny thing is, I don&#039;t see Mr Mallard posting comments on the post about Clark and Davis.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Funny thing is, I don&#8217;t see Mr Mallard posting comments on the post about Clark and Davis.</p>
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		<title>By: racer</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-547951</link>
		<dc:creator>racer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Redbaiter

That’s what your damn job is, to bring us truth.&quot;

Fuck off you authoritarian creep, how dare you tell lies like this. His job is to aid in the selling of as many papers as they can, nothing more nothing less.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Redbaiter</p>
<p>That’s what your damn job is, to bring us truth.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fuck off you authoritarian creep, how dare you tell lies like this. His job is to aid in the selling of as many papers as they can, nothing more nothing less.</p>
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		<title>By: reid</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-547949</link>
		<dc:creator>reid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;...the main reason for that is that we exercise more (especially middle aged males) than other OECD countries.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Trevor, since people respond more to fear than to reward (apparently about a 70/30 ratio), why wasn&#039;t the campaign designed around portraying middle-class males (and females) losing what they valued: e.g. being around to see their grand-children grow up?

It&#039;s just that at present, it doesn&#039;t seem to have the cut-through it deserves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>&#8230;the main reason for that is that we exercise more (especially middle aged males) than other OECD countries.</p></blockquote>
<p>Trevor, since people respond more to fear than to reward (apparently about a 70/30 ratio), why wasn&#8217;t the campaign designed around portraying middle-class males (and females) losing what they valued: e.g. being around to see their grand-children grow up?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s just that at present, it doesn&#8217;t seem to have the cut-through it deserves.</p>
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		<title>By: billyborker</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-547903</link>
		<dc:creator>billyborker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Patrick Starr (1935) Vote:  1   0   Says: 

March 29th, 2009 at 2:43 pm 
always one for a good spin there Trevor. You may be 100% correct that “Push Play was started by Nats”

The fact remains however that “Tax and Spend” like drunken sailors was started by you lot to the point that the country’s in such a shit hole we cant afford crap like that anymore.
You’ve driven most high earning middle aged males to countries like Aussie, US and UK
&lt;/i&gt;

Then he must be regretting his policies that attracted high earning, middle aged males, like John Key to return to NZ.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Patrick Starr (1935) Vote:  1   0   Says: </p>
<p>March 29th, 2009 at 2:43 pm<br />
always one for a good spin there Trevor. You may be 100% correct that “Push Play was started by Nats”</p>
<p>The fact remains however that “Tax and Spend” like drunken sailors was started by you lot to the point that the country’s in such a shit hole we cant afford crap like that anymore.<br />
You’ve driven most high earning middle aged males to countries like Aussie, US and UK<br />
</i></p>
<p>Then he must be regretting his policies that attracted high earning, middle aged males, like John Key to return to NZ.</p>
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		<title>By: billyborker</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-547902</link>
		<dc:creator>billyborker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s some simple exercise instructions, slowed down so kiwis can follow them.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ0TfsaMv-E</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s some simple exercise instructions, slowed down so kiwis can follow them.</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ0TfsaMv-E" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ0TfsaMv-E</a></p>
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		<title>By: Patrick Starr</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-547900</link>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Starr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>always one for a good spin there Trevor.  You may be 100% correct that “Push Play was started by Nats”

The fact remains however that “Tax and Spend” like drunken sailors was started by you lot to the point that the country’s in such a shit hole we cant afford crap like that anymore. 
You&#039;ve driven most  high earning middle aged males to countries like Aussie, US and UK</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>always one for a good spin there Trevor.  You may be 100% correct that “Push Play was started by Nats”</p>
<p>The fact remains however that “Tax and Spend” like drunken sailors was started by you lot to the point that the country’s in such a shit hole we cant afford crap like that anymore.<br />
You&#8217;ve driven most  high earning middle aged males to countries like Aussie, US and UK</p>
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		<title>By: Trevor Mallard</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/03/ralston_on_govt_advertising.html#comment-547894</link>
		<dc:creator>Trevor Mallard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Easy to jump on the new politically correct bandwagon - but remember Push Play was started by Nats in the 1990s, that lots of research (available via SPARC ) has been done on identifying methods of getting people to consider exercising, that we have an obesity epidemic but not as bad as like countries eg Aussie, US, UK, that the main reason for that is that we exercise more (especially middle aged males) than other OECD countries. Very easy to criticise but consider the possibilty that I worked hard to expand McCully&#039;s initiative was that the evidence was that he had got it right.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Easy to jump on the new politically correct bandwagon &#8211; but remember Push Play was started by Nats in the 1990s, that lots of research (available via SPARC ) has been done on identifying methods of getting people to consider exercising, that we have an obesity epidemic but not as bad as like countries eg Aussie, US, UK, that the main reason for that is that we exercise more (especially middle aged males) than other OECD countries. Very easy to criticise but consider the possibilty that I worked hard to expand McCully&#8217;s initiative was that the evidence was that he had got it right.</p>
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