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March 25, 2010 8:00am by David Farrar

General Debate 25 March 2010

On a plane most of today so don’t expect much until this evening.

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nickb

Is anyone else hoping the Kane Williamson gets a start in the test on Saturday?

Sounds like he has some talent about him, he can’t do any worse than Ingram, whose technique is a joke at international level. Surely there is no way they can pick Sinclair ahead of Williamson…
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March 25, 2010 2:19pm
menace

Yvette, see my post, read the facts and you can see for your self how we have obviously got the round the wrong way with regards to there harm to individuals and society.
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March 25, 2010 2:21pm
Murray

Whoa massive cut n past crapweasle alert.
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March 25, 2010 2:21pm
nickb

All I want for my birthday is Lindsay Mitchell for Minister of Social Welfare.

Then finally a shake up might be done of scum like this:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/3505342/Gang-leaders-wife-guilty-of-fraud
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March 25, 2010 2:24pm
KiwiGreg

I’m pretty relaxed about my kids trying marijuana in moderation. Never did me any obvious harm and, like most things, it’s really only bad for you in excess (and I’ve seen folk use it in excess, not pretty, but neither is alcoholism). Far better for them to try it and see it’s no big deal then hanker after “forbidden fruit”.
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March 25, 2010 2:25pm
Murray

Just let them read phool and menace, I’m sure they can work things out for themselves.
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March 25, 2010 2:32pm
menace

oh come on murray, don’t be so week, the facts support my arguement, if you disagree then disprove me by providing facts that contradict my argument, hard when they don’t exist bla bla bla, the old, “oh there wrong” doesn’t cut it man its just thin and week mate.
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March 25, 2010 2:39pm
dime

nickb – hope so! word is he will be as good as crowe (marty that is).

greatbatch said he wont play unless its a flat wicket. just silly imho
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March 25, 2010 2:40pm
Murray

Don’t even consider addressing me as mate.
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March 25, 2010 2:45pm
menace

will if i want mate
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March 25, 2010 2:46pm
nickb

Yea I reckon.
I will not believe it if the ypick Sinclair over him, how many times has Sinclair been tried and failed. A great at domestic level but hardly a player of the future…
Lou Vincent was picked only at a bit older age against Warne, Lee, and McGrath at the WACA, Williamson is being picked against lesser bowlers on a flatter pitch..

IMO Ingram should be dropped for Williamson, don’t know why he was picked in the first place. And I don’t think Franklin should be in the X1, only an average player really.

I am obviously not as knowledgable as Vettori, Greatbatch and Turner, but sometimes you do have to wonder WTF is going on in the minds of the selectors…
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March 25, 2010 2:47pm
lastmanstanding

Re the chinese company looking at buying Crafars farms What these guys do is make some really big annoucement to the HKSE or Shanghia exchange so mum and pop Lee Chan etc pile in and buy as the price spikes.

Then surprise surprise after the Directors and insiders have sold their shares at the inflated price they go back to the SX and say Sorry folks deal fell over

Happens all the time up there All part of the game.
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March 25, 2010 2:48pm
KiwiGreg

@ lastman yep although I think the actual game in this case is to make the noise, get some sizzle going so they can raise equity. The shares haven been suspended from trading since February 12 IIRC.
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March 25, 2010 2:53pm
Put it away

Menace – “The fact that many doctors endorse marijuana as having great medical qualities does tell us that when proscribed correctly that it does”

I assume you don’t know what “proscribed” means…
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March 25, 2010 3:16pm
lastmanstanding

YIPPEEEE!!!!! The CEO of the Families Commission has resigned

Lets scrape this useless Commission and every other agency with Commission in its title ( except for Lotteries)

Time to take an axe to these bloated self serving do nothing waste of space and tax payer money outfits
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March 25, 2010 3:55pm
big bruv

Another reason to dislike the Greens.

http://clintheine.blogspot.com/2010/03/another-reason-to-hate-greens.html
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March 25, 2010 4:07pm
Luc Hansen

Like I said right at the beginning, it won’t take long for all the weirdos, like RightNow, to pop up with their outlandish theories that are dismissed by the scientists.

Oh, but I forget, they’re all in on the scam, aren’t they?

Paranoia reigns supreme on Kiwblog.

Anyway, i just heard that lying sob Bibi saying jews were building in Jerusalem 3000 yeras ago. Well, not much is certain 3000 yeras ago but someone should tell Bibi that if there were Jews around Jerusalem then, they were Arabs, not Europeans.

Arabs invented Judaism. Arabs invented Christianity. Arabs invented Islam. Not a European in sight until T E Lawrence happened along – OK, rhetorical flourish…but you get my drift.

One thing amuses me more than anything about the so-called peace process, future generations of Palestinians will reclaim their historic homeland. The sooner the recent immigrants realise this reality, the better.
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March 25, 2010 4:12pm
nickb

Haha, well done for standing up to the enviro-nazis BB.

What a fucking tart!
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March 25, 2010 4:15pm
NOt1tocommentoften

Bruv – you constantly hoot and moan about the government doing things with your money. This woman commented on something that effects OUR environment. How are the two of you any different?

And have you been to countries where plastic bags litter the scenery? A bloody horrible sight.
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March 25, 2010 4:35pm
big bruv

Not1

I am surprised that you cannot see the difference, I moan about what the government does with MY MONEY, this stupid wimin (in true green party fashion) felt she had the right to tell me what to do with my life.

I have been to many countries, what they do with their environment is none of my bloody business and I would never think of telling them how to run their lives.
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March 25, 2010 4:40pm
NOt1tocommentoften

But BB – it is the government’s money. Not yours. It’s OURs in the same sense as the environment. The rest of us pay tax too, not only you.

“what they do with their environment is none of my bloody business” – So you’re not worried about the future of our environment at all? And if you say you are, then what do you want to do about it? Sit back and watch while others destroy it? Or speak up about it (like you do when you don’t like what the government is doing)? But what is wrong with reminding some pig-headed idiot in the super market of the consequences of bad choices? How else will they learn.
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March 25, 2010 4:46pm
nickb

Not1 the issue is not BB’s thoughts on the environment, but the busybody cow that saw fit to give him a lecture in the supermarket.
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March 25, 2010 4:49pm
Yvette

Others have commented earlier today here in GD about an island lost to global warming’s sea level increases. The stuff.co item says in part . . .
“For nearly 30 years, India and Bangladesh have argued over control of a tiny rock island in the Bay of Bengal. Now rising sea levels have resolved the dispute – the island’s gone.
New Moore Island in the Sunderbans has been completely submerged, said oceanographer Sugata Hazra, a professor at Jadavpur University in Calcutta. Its disappearance has been confirmed by satellite imagery and sea patrols, he said.
“What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming,” said Hazra.”
and . . .
“Until 2000, the sea levels rose about 3mm a year, but over the last decade they have been rising about 5mm annually, he said.”

So 20 years at 3 mm = 60 mm ; 10 years at 5 mm = 50 mm ; total 110 mm
A 4.33 inch rise in sea level sunk the island.
Where did I go wrong?
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March 25, 2010 4:52pm
NOt1tocommentoften

So sitting back and minding ones business in public and then whinging on blogs is the way to go? Nice…
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March 25, 2010 4:53pm
nickb

He didn’t, he told her to mind her own business. Did you even read his blog post?
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March 25, 2010 4:55pm
big bruv

Not1

You are right, I should have reminded the pig-headed idiot that is was none of her business in a more forceful manner.

As for the environment, what other countries do is none of my business and given that I have not been taken in by the climate change con then yes, I could not really give a fuck what they do and nor am I worried about it.

Again it looks like I have to educate you, the government does not have ANY money, what they have is taken from us against our will, like many others I would feel less pissed off about this if they did not waste so much of it.

This stupid wimin has no idea what I had in mind for this plastic bag, like you she sees it as her right to tell me how to live my life without bothering to engage her brain as to why I might have asked for the bag, not one plastic bag goes to waste in my house, we have two dogs of our own and can have up to six or seven others at a time I do not think it takes a brain surgeon to work out why I always ask for a plastic bag when I buy something from the supermarket.
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March 25, 2010 4:58pm
KiwiGreg

“So 20 years at 3 mm = 60 mm ; 10 years at 5 mm = 50 mm ; total 110 mm
A 4.33 inch rise in sea level sunk the island.
Where did I go wrong?”

Can’t fault your maths. But relying on stuff.co.nz for facts might be a mistake.

““What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming,” said Hazra.”

However this quote provides clear proof of global warming, the fact it is caused by humans, its effect on sea levels and the dire future which awaits us all. This person is an ACTUAL scientist.
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March 25, 2010 5:06pm
Yvette

“But relying on stuff.co.nz for facts might be a mistake.”

Sydney Morning Herald
Professor Hazra said sea-level rise, changes in monsoonal rain patterns which altered river flows and land subsidence were all contributing to the inundation of land in the northern Bay of Bengal.
The low-lying delta region that makes up much of Bangladesh and the neighbouring Indian state of West Bengal are acutely vulnerable to climate change.

Seattle Times and Guardian UK
Until 2000, the sea levels rose about 3 millimeters (0.12 inches) a year, but over the last decade they have been rising about 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) annually, he said.
Officials estimate 18% of Bangladesh’s coastal area will be underwater and 20 million people will be displaced if sea levels rise one metre by 2050 as projected by some climate models.

Telegraph UK
Until 2000, the sea levels rose about 0.12 inches a year, but over the last decade they have been rising about 0.2 inches annually, he said
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March 25, 2010 6:10pm
MikeNZ

BB
So do we!
our black mobile shit machine pops it out regardless of what we feed him!
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March 25, 2010 6:30pm
Razork

BREAKING NEWS: David Bain has asked the Government for compensation.

Justice Minister Simon Power said he had this afternoon received a letter from the lawyers for Mr Bain formally notifying of a claim for compensation for “wrongful conviction and imprisonment”.

Mr Bain was last year acquitted of murdering his Dunedin family following a three month trial at the Christchurch High Court.

He served 12 years in prison for the alleged murders of four of his family after being found guilty in 1995.

In 2007 the Privy Council quashed his convictions on the grounds of a substantial miscarriage of justice and ordered a retrial.

“There is a process now to work through and I will not be making any further comment at this time,” Mr Power said.
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March 25, 2010 6:36pm
MikeNZ

big bruv (5739) Says:
March 25th, 2010 at 4:40 pm

I complained at NW about their charging for plastic bags for the environment.
getting no joy.
I collected a whole shopping trolley of food (a weeks shop) got it all on the conveyor and asked for the manager.
when he came I said. ” you are charging for plastic bags to save the environment, yes?”
He said “yes”
I said ” can you please tell me about all this other plastic that you give away with our shopping” and then proceeded to point out every bit of plastic on the conveyor.
I asked him ” is all this plastic biodegradable or is it the same as the plastic bags?”
I asked him ” do you think it is fair for you to give me 6X at least plastic with the shopping but charge me for the miniscule amount of plastic in the bags?”
He said “its a decision at Head Office but I see where you’re coming from”.
I said my goodbyes and left the shopping on the conveyor and went to Pak an Save.

I wonder how many other people pointed that out to them as they’ve changed their policy.
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March 25, 2010 6:37pm
big bruv

Razork

Now watch as the real shit fight starts, as far as I am concerned Bain is not entitled to one fucking cent of my money.

The bastard got away with murder, the fact that he is now a free man still annoys me.
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March 25, 2010 6:43pm
MikeNZ

Luc Hansen (1249) Says:
March 25th, 2010 at 4:12 pm

Well done, I am so proud of you!

Finally you are telling the truth of your position and feelings, it’s great.
Instead of the convoluted, infoarguementliberalleftykindheartedthinker bullshit you used to do.

As I said well done, how does it make you feel (to come out like this with no subterfuge anymore)?

Yeah those pesky Jews, they’ve sure been around a long time, isn’t it since that Abraham fellow came over from Ur.
Do you think they’ll want to claim that area too now?
Bit of a tussel with the Iranians (shia) and the American backed Sunnis there at the moment, probably better to keep quiet and let things lie ehhh?
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March 25, 2010 6:44pm
MikeNZ

LUC
It seems someone in Amwerica thinks similarly to you.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/petraeus_of_arabia.html
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March 25, 2010 6:48pm
Razork

BB
I agree.
What are we going to do about it?
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March 25, 2010 6:51pm
big bruv

Well you could run for Mayor Raz, I will pester the hell out of our local MP, apart from that there is not much more we can do I guess.

It is not as if Neville Key is going to listen anyway.
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March 25, 2010 6:52pm
Razork

or we could build a fund and take out an injunction against any compo being awarded unless he can prove his innocence.
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March 25, 2010 7:10pm
Viking2

Why doesn’t G Hart Dairy buy Crafars and float on the NZ stock Exchange instead of these Chinese fellows attempting to shaft someone.?
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March 25, 2010 7:13pm
edhunter

I said my goodbyes and left the shopping on the conveyor and went to Pak an Save.

Where they’ve charged for plastic bags since adam was a cowboy..tosser
did they roll out the red carpet for you?
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March 25, 2010 7:26pm
big bruv

Raz

Is that possible?
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March 25, 2010 7:41pm
menace

@mikenz, what a tosser! do you always go around being a dick because you think that you shouldn’t have to 5 cents when the other customers do? that’s a price bitch, get over it!
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March 25, 2010 7:49pm
menace

i know that i would also want a bit of cash to, 12 years is along time, its worth something that’s for sure,
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March 25, 2010 7:50pm
side show bob

Luc “paranoia reigns supreme on Kiwiblog”, priceless !!!!!!!!!!!
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March 25, 2010 7:52pm
side show bob

Fuck I wish you could smoke ragwort, I’d be a wealthy man this year. Seems to be an excellent crop, must be the heat and dry. Shit perhaps it’s global warming.
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March 25, 2010 7:59pm
Fale Andrew Lesa

One law for all in New Zealand?

Former district court judge Michael Lance has proven this to be complete nonsense – there is no such thing as equality under New Zealand law.
When you are an official of the Ministry of Justice you could probably get away with murder.
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March 25, 2010 8:08pm
Razork

BB I don’t know, but I would contribute if it was.
There’s bound to be a lawyer on here who will tell us.
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March 25, 2010 8:08pm
Zulu

Menace writ:
“I’ll give a few numbers for those that seem to have things a bit wrong.

Costs of harmful alcohol and other drug use
Adrian Slack
Client: The Ministry of Health and ACC
Authors: Adrian Slack, Dr Ganesh Nana, Michael Webster, Fiona Stokes and Jiani Wu
Date: July 2009”

Actually a review of this report called “The Price of everything The Value of Nothing: A (Truly) External Review Of BERL’s Study Of Harmful Alcohol and Drug Use” debunked it as “thoroughly inadequate”, finding “substantial flaws in BERL’s method that together account for well over 90% of BERL’s calculated costs of alcohol use.”

for further details:
http://ideas.repec.org/p/cbt/econwp/09-10.html
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March 25, 2010 8:17pm
big bruv

So would I Raz
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March 25, 2010 8:19pm
MikeNZ

edhunter (23) Says:
March 25th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
No, I used the available boxes as I always do. Duh!

menace (257) Says:
March 25th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Thanks Menace, Which hand do you use?
Please put your reading glasses on before you sit down at the computer, I was speaking for all customers duh!
Perhaps you might like to assess the plastic that you are putting into your nice clean green shopping bags next time you are at NW and let us know how much of it is more biodegradable than the plastic bags we now get free again.

side show bob (222) Says:
March 25th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
What paranoia?
I was congratulating him for putting away the questioning lefty subterfuge masquerading as liberalleftykindheartedthinker bullshit conversation and coming straight out with his feelings/thoughts.

To put some perspective on the building in East Jerusalem from the first link.
During the 19 years (48-67) that Jordan occupied East Jerusalem, it expelled all of the Jews living in what was historically the Jewish Quarter, and literally destroyed every synagogue and the homes of the Jews. When Israel reunited all of Jerusalem, Jews were, of course, allowed to live in any part of the city, and today, more than a quarter of a million Jews live in East Jerusalem. Numerous Arabs live there as well.

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/ss_israel0229_03_22.asp
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Dore-Gold-Diplomatic-dispute-obscures-Israels-invaluable-help-to-US-military-88914752.html
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=171483
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March 25, 2010 8:29pm
MikeNZ

SSBob
In the 400 years leading up to 1948 when Israel was reborn, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) let the Jews live in Jerusalem and did not expel them unlike Jordan. Similarly they did not destroy jewish history (buildings) as Jordan did and the Palestinian Authority are doing.

There is a reason for that.
They never considered themselves anything more than absentee landlords and the area where Israel is now was not important to them. Indeed they sold as much land as Jews could buy from them. Much of it was marginal land that they upgraded and made into what it is today. It was only when Israel became a state and an official home for Jews worldwide in light of the Holocaust that the Arabs (Muslims) took notice.

There is a reason for that too.
Israel is an affront to Islam and their God Allah.
As long as Israel exists, effectively it says Mohamed was deceived , a charlatan or liar and Allah is not the supreme God Islam says he is.
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March 25, 2010 8:41pm
edhunter

duh I’m not the one who obviously enjoyed the supermarket experience so much I had to do it twice in one day for the sake of .60 cents, but i suppose that was part of the buzz, the fuck you of actually wasting more gas & emitting needless carbon monoxide into the atmosphere that’ll fuck of the greenies.

And as for Bain, sure lets line the pockets of lawyers with more waste of tax payers money give him a couple of million cut our losses.
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March 25, 2010 8:44pm
big bruv

Whale has the right idea, those of you with facebook pages should join the power hour group.
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March 25, 2010 8:52pm
Viking2

Acting on a matter of principle.

Nah not in NZ.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/memories-of-soviet-repression-spurred-googles-decison-to-quit-china/story-e6frg90x-1225845127037
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March 25, 2010 8:59pm
Viking2

Found out what Farrar’s been up to! Looks like he and the whale are expanding in the Winnebago bus business.
Enjoy.
Prostitutes-on-wheels apply to ply horny miners with their highway trade

* By Rajiv Maharaj
* From: Northern Territory News
* March 25, 2010 6:46AM
* 6 comments

Brothel

A Winnebago motorhome may be just the ticket / file Source: The Daily Telegraph

* ‘Shag Bus’ licence awaiting approval
* Businesswoman exploits hole in market
* Local stories: The Nothern Territory News

A HOLE in Alice Springs’ prostitution market could be filled by an agency looking to cash in on a mining boom with its own fly-in fly-out operation.

Businesswoman Julie Partridge, 52, has applied for a licence to set up an agency that would bring sex workers in from Darwin or interstate on a two weeks on, two weeks off roster.

“I am very positive about an escort agency business in Alice Springs because of all the mining activity that is going on,” she told the Northern Territory News.

Another businesswoman said she was approached by an interstate group looking to take advantage of the surge of male mine workers, who spent their working week “in a hole” and emerged with cash to burn and “one thing on their mind”.

She said they were looking to set up a “Shag Bus” in a refurbished Winnebago to service horny clients up and down the Stuart Highway.between Alice and Tennant Creek.

“It’s … the Love Boat but on wheels,” she said.

“It’s quite clever – a new take on the phrase ‘sex tourism’.”

The idea that a mining boom was attracting sex industry entrepreneurs to Alice Springs came as no shock to NT Resources Council chief executive Scott Perkins.

“Well, the mining industry has a long history of supporting local businesses,” he said.

“On top of mining, there are many drilling operations.”

The NT Justice Department confirmed it was considering an escort agency manager licence application for Alice Springs.

If approved, it will be the only regulated and licensed agency in Alice Springs, with the sole existing agency operated by prominent local identity Tracey Randall (aka Minnie Maid) about to move to Cairns.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national/miners-buckle-up-to-ride-shag-bus/story-e6freooo-1225845036289
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March 25, 2010 9:25pm
menace

@zulu, yes that looks pretty debunked all right,
you know of other similar but accurate studies about?
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March 25, 2010 9:47pm
menace

in germany lots of the hookers had there own motor homes and parked by country roads….
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March 25, 2010 9:50pm
Hurf Durf

Robyn Malcolm is a perfect example of your average smug, arrogant, submoronic Gweenie. Drill, baby, drill.
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March 25, 2010 9:54pm
pjje

Rethe Bain compensation claim. If he gets it, he should get plenty: 12 years out of the life of a young man is a terrible thing. But the chances of success must be quite low if he must be considered innocent on the balance of probabilities in order to qualify – reading the newspaper reports I thought there were reasonable grounds to convict (though it has to be said that’s a third hand view or worse). Presumably he has some advantage in the evidence actually discounted in the second case: the glasses and perhaps the FBI expert. But presumably a sound QC will take quite a robust attitude to that. Personally, I think he shouldn’t qualify. But my views are entirely irrelevant.

Of more interest, to me at least, Chris Trotter’s post of 12 March on ECA changes and in particular on pressure to change the personal grievance rules. I have a lot of sympathy with his views. I’ve seen differences with staff. In our own business, they came to nothing. In a relative’s business, a letter from a competent lawyer did the trick. I sometimes wonder how the apparently bad cases of exploitation of process failures come about – the standards don’t seem all that tough. I can’t help thinking that in some cases it may be a matter of good workers who become employers on the Peter Principle. I hope I don’t have reason to count myself among them one day.

And on marijuana. It’s a bit of a lottery, isn’t it? The stories are that lots of people do OK as occasional users, but there are a number in whom it induces severe brain chemistry problems destroying their lives. The same can be said for alcohol and heroin. But P seems to be quite a different issue, with no suggestion that there are any significant numbers of users who continue to participate meaningfully in human society. Where do you draw the line? I think it’s a fairly rough cost / benefit trade-off. The costs of prohibition generally outweigh the benefits, especially if there is some reasonable attempt at education and economic deterrence (consider nicotine). I’ve always considered alcohol OK on that basis, though I can see the argument re RTDs. Similarly marijuana (especially given that it grows well enough to be a problem noxious weed in some areas) – I’d be open to argument on the potential cost of disrupted lives, but alcohol set the bar pretty high. But with P, the apparent benefts of prohibition are enormous even compared with the high and nasty costs of prohibition (including at least one dead Police officer – a hero in my view). Phil U’s views on the matter are of particular interest – hasn’t he mentioned in the past that drug use has had a dramatic, negative, and regrettable impact on his life.
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March 25, 2010 11:53pm
Hurf Durf

Leftards do so make me lol. Keep up the good work, Bradbury, perhaps some day someone might take you seriously.
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March 26, 2010 1:13am
Hurf Durf

I do so love laughing at leftists. Keep up the good work, Martyn, maybe someone will take you seriously some day.
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"The principal view of human laws is, or ought always to be, to explain, protect, and enforce such rights as are absolute, which in themselves are few and simple."
Not PC
The response to Budget 2026 has been unusually muted
Point of Order
You know what “does not pass the sniff test”? Labour’s incremental response to blatant corruption – this is why they plunged 7.5%
The Daily Blog
When is a Free Speech Union not a Free Speech Union?
The Standard
We Are a Country That Decided Housing Was The Economy
No Minister
My Opening Statement for the UATX Caplan-Jones Immigration Rematch
Utopia
Woman of the day
Hompaddock
Playing with numbers.
Kiwipolitico
A crime
No Right Turn
Another non-tariff barrier
Offsetting Behaviour
Rugby Premiership Predictions for Round 18
Stats Chat
Budget 2026
NZCPR
UK Conversion Therapy Ban, Digital ID, Rallies, Elections
Bob McCoskrie's McBlog
A central banker’s fiction
Croaking Cassandra
THE WORKING FROM HOME RACKET BY PUBLIC SERVANTS
No Punches Pulled (Bob Jones)
Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet
The Civilian
The Accidental Engagement
Imperator Fish
Legal Beagle: Election '23: The Special Votes
Public Address
Get Vaccinated Tomorrow Or Shut Your Pie Hole
Cactus Kate
Making this movie might have been a mistake
Liam Hehir
Why I am retiring from political blogging
Kiwi FireWalker

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