Comments on: ACC protests send clear message to NACT

By: tc

tc — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:00:08 +0000

Muldoon had the bok tour now JK has this, not in the same league yet but I’m sure he’ll lift his game before the terms out………foreshore/seabed looks a good opportunity.
These protests galvanise the right even more……how dare we question their mastery, bow down and be grateful loyal serfs.
Goff’s a nice guy……we all now where they end up finishing as sections of the media have decided.

By: rocky

rocky — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:19:45 +0000

Yes I did notice that bit and was not happy about it. At the same time though, it wasn’t about Phil Goff, and while they were unfair to him, they did have a fairly balanced perspective on the issue. It’s more than I can say about most media coverage of protests.

By: the sprout

the sprout — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:00:21 +0000

priceless
i thought it was ‘unselling’ too, couldn’t work it out

By: gingercrush

gingercrush — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:36:32 +0000

I’m surprised you were happy with TV 3′s coverage. Personally, I thought it was disgusting. The way they made Goff appearing at the protest into a cheap attack is in my opinion atrocious.I’m not surprised though. TV 3 has a rather bad habit of getting in wee small digs all for supposedly news.

These are scenes National could do without but for Labour leader Phil Goff it was an opportunity to voice support for the cause and score a few political points. – This piece really irks me.

By: rocky

rocky — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:29:07 +0000

LOL. I take it you do realise the banner actually says “counselling”, not “unselling”, and that part of it is just out of the camera shot?

By: Rex Widerstrom

Rex Widerstrom — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:15:47 +0000

Looking at that pic, at first I thought Big Brother had invented a new word – “unselling”. Indeed it is a right to “unsell” public assets

By: Dancr

Dancr — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:34:46 +0000

Our society will be worse off if these changes go ahead – thanks for describing what it felt like to be there. I hope it reverberates through the House tomorrow. And apologies for posting on top of you – I would have delayed if I have realised in time!

By: toad

toad — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:31:05 +0000

Cheers, rocky. I was on the Auckland march too.

I’ve never seen the Police be so tolerant of a “sit-in” like that which happened in the foyer of the Auckland ACC office. Usually, there would be arreests within the first 5 minutes for that type of protest.

I suspect the tolerance of the Police was because they know that they are often the ones who have to pick up the mess when sexual violence victims don’t receive adequate support.

So big ups to the Police, and big ups to everyone who marched today. It may take time, but we can win this. Most people don’t want victims of sexual violence being stigmatised forever as being “mentally ill”.