Oh well, the Nats always make me want to vomit. :P So I didn't notice anything particular (and yeah, I missed the news, heheh.) On the other hand I don't think it's completely useless, I think there is a genuine desire of at least some politicians to do better.
Probably not John Key, though. Hello, abolishing the Maori seats? Sigh. >.> I prefer Key to Brash but he hasn't exactly won me over, put it that way.
Hah. :-/ There's a good article in the dom post today about a Vic Uni prof who says that New Zealand has basically succumbed to something called penal populism - irrational public desire for longer, tougher sentences, even when it's inappropriate.
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Date: 2007-02-06 11:23 pm (UTC)Probably not John Key, though. Hello, abolishing the Maori seats? Sigh. >.> I prefer Key to Brash but he hasn't exactly won me over, put it that way.
Hah. :-/ There's a good article in the dom post today about a Vic Uni prof who says that New Zealand has basically succumbed to something called penal populism - irrational public desire for longer, tougher sentences, even when it's inappropriate.