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Upton-on-line: Notes from the Employment Seminar
Friday, 19 May 2000, 9:46 am | Hon Simon Upton
Labour Minister Margaret Wilson has continued her daily seminar on the Employment Relations Bill during Question Time with the long suffering, slightly wan humour of a parent who has refused her children any dessert until they’ve eaten up their ... More >>
Upton-On-Line - Notes from Employment Law Seminar
Thursday, 18 May 2000, 6:43 pm | Hon Simon Upton
Labour Minister Margaret Wilson has continued her daily seminar on the Employment Relations Bill during Question Time with the long suffering, slightly wan humour of a parent who has refused her children any dessert until they’ve eaten up their ... More >>
Upton Online: Where academics love to tread
Friday, 12 May 2000, 9:13 am | Hon Simon Upton
Seasoned observers are in broad agreement that Helen Clark's foray into the sociology of policing represents her first serious error of judgement. While she has taken risks (and no hostages) in dealing with the squabbles and boo boos of her team mates, ... More >>
Rushing in where academics love to tread
Thursday, 11 May 2000, 8:21 pm | Hon Simon Upton
Seasoned observers are in broad agreement that Helen Clark’s foray into the sociology of policing represents her first serious error of judgement. While she has taken risks (and no hostages) in dealing with the squabbles and boo boos of her team mates, ... More >>
Upton-on-line: Superannuation Secrets
Thursday, 4 May 2000, 8:02 pm | Hon Simon Upton
Upton-on-line continues to be intrigued by Dr Michael Cullen's superambulations - and the totally benign, bored way in which commentators seem to regard them. More >>
Upton-On-Line: Hobb[e]sian Musings
Wednesday, 26 April 2000, 11:36 am | Hon Simon Upton
Upton-on-line has always had a bit of a penchant for Thomas Hobbes - that grimmest of seventeenth century political philosophers immortalised by his characterisation of life in the state of nature as 'nasty, brutish and short'. There's nothing like ... More >>
Upton-on-line - Special - The 'Hui From Hell
Monday, 10 April 2000, 10:15 am | Hon Simon Upton
Upton-on-line has been holed up in the old Legislative Council Chamber taking part in the great constitutional debate sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies. The great, the good, the aggrieved and the grumpy (or at least 117 of them) have ... More >>
On the real significance of November's election
Thursday, 7 October 1999, 9:37 am | Hon Simon Upton
Every election is, of course, of vital interest to politicians and those who earn their living either helping or hindering them. The world beyond the Ngauranga interchange (which for the benefit of non-Wellingtonians is where the bumpy old Hutt Motorway ... More >>
