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Russell Brown Profile picture
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Sep 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
What I like about this is that @PouTepou isn't just yelling at the PM to get on board – he articulates very well why she hasn't weighed in and the risks of her doing so. But I'm with him – it's time now.
Is Jacinda Ardern voting "Yes"? Of course she is. Among other things, in 2016 she signed an open letter from the Drug Policy Alliance calling for an end to the War On Drugs, as her party's Justice spokesperson. drugpolicy.org/resource/post-…
I never worked out how the half-dozen signatures from NZers were solicited, but alongside names you'd expect, (Metiria Turei) there is ... Duncan Garner? Garner has since spouted a lot of garbage about drug law, so maybe he signed by accident. Prime Minister, don't be like Duncan
But also, I think now's the time for the press crew following Jacinda Ardern on the campaign trail to just directly and politely ask her how she's voting. Don't load it up with anything, just ask.

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🧵 There has been a lot of commentary and reporting on Labour's loss of – or battle to retain – a number of high-profile electorate seats in the 2023 election, but it all seems to miss one obvious fact: those Labour MPs almost all outperformed Labour's party vote.
Deborah Russell, a committed, talented MP, is currently 483 votes down vs National's Paulo Garcia, a mediocre second-time MP with risible views on social issues. But National's party vote margin in New Lynn is five times that. Labour won the party vote in very few electorates.
So, why? I can tell you why I, a lifelong tribal Labour voter, voted Green for the first time this year. Firstly, they lost me on tax: Chris Hipkins' veto on the Parker-Robertson tax reform in favour of a GST cut that would not deliver the promised benefit.
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🧵Kia ora. I've been head-down writing all day, so it took me a minute to catch up with "prioritising Māori for surgery" story. I think it's really an illustration of what's wrong with our media and our politics.
What's happened here is Barry Soper, who wouldn't know policy analysis if it bit him on the arse, being told about a policy that's been in the system for about a year. It's called the Equity Adjustor Score and it aims to address health inequities highlighted in multiple reports.
*One* of five lines of the algorithm is ethnicity, because there's endless evidence that Māori and Pasifika fare worse in the health system than other NZers. Another is location – people in Southland, for example, suffer in the postcode lottery.
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Jun 16, 2023
This is fun: part of a 1978 Omnibus documentary with John Peel interviewing The Mekons, ATV, Sham 69, The Slits and UK Subs about whether it's punk to make money out of music.
Also, Robert Smith in 1984, after his spell with the Banshees – and thus not pretending to be totally stoned all the time.
And this bizarre BBC panel discussion about which song Sandie Shaw will sing in the 1967 Eurovision. The smoking!
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Aug 31, 2022
We've come to understand mayoral leadership in Auckland as being about cajoling majorities from a diverse group of councillors to get things done. Maybe Wayne Brown could get things done by calling everyone idiots, but more likely not. nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/au…
As much as I quite like the idea of sending Brown in to bang heads at AT, I don't think he really understands the issues well right now. At the K Road panel he went on about the K Road bike lanes costing $12k a metre and the path outside his home being dug up six times, but ...
He appeared to genuinely not know that the cost and time taken for the K Road upgrade wasn't two bike lanes, it was digging up and replacing all the services. They dug and dug again because they kept finding pipes they didn't know about.
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Aug 30, 2022
🧵Moderating last night's @BikeAKL mayoral candidates forum was a good chance to go a bit deeper on walking and cycling policy and the underlying imperative of emissions reduction. But there was a problem ...
Viv Beck and Efeso Collins had been invited as the two most bike-friendly candidates. Both did express support for continued expansion of the city's cycle network. Beck promises a "well utilised and safe cycling network" in her published policy. votevivbeck.co.nz/get-auckland-m…
In person, however, she repeatedly qualified that support with appeals to the feelings of people who don't like bike lanes. Perhaps if these people saw existing cycleways being used, she said, it would be easier to add more.
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I know it's not always easy, but editors need to be very wary about publishing from press releases put out by orgs like Drug Free Australia, a front for for the Australian Christian right. The paper itself is ... odt.co.nz/news/world/stu…
Here. I don't have any expertise to comment on their "cutting edge epidemiological techniques", but I can tell a few things about the data they put into it. So ... archpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
Would it surprise you to hear that the researchers actually found a significant *negative* association between cannabis use and cancer rates? But that wasn't what they were after, so they tortured their data into showing that cannabidiol (CBD) is a cancer villain.
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