This North and South article from a few years back has been the best explainer on the NZ housing markets I have read. A pertinent excerpt on the accommodation supplement: “There had been plenty of advice that the accommodation supplement was a bad idea. In...
So..rentals held by landlords with no mortgage didn’t rise in the last few years? Yeah nah. He makes me sick with this framing (as a renter), patronising af as per.
Is Seymour so hungry for the dp bauble he will abandon their bottom line - the Treaty referendum?
What did they want? The problem is their wishlist is unpalatable to actually say out loud so we end up with mumbles of nondelivery, worst govt ever, ruining the country.
But they did deliver - record house prices. I’m sick of that rhetoric too.
Truly brilliant summation, thankyou and I couldn’t agree more. I trust Māori to be custodians of this land and resources more than I trust ACT (and National) and its sponsors. Frankly I don’t think there would be much left for us ordinary pakeha citizens ...
Nicola Willis has said she will resign if they don’t ‘deliver’ tax cuts. I take this to mean if they can’t deliver them using their ‘modelling’ that they will deliver some other way come hell or high water ie raising gst, freezing wages etc
Aside from the fact that they are banking on hypotheticals I am vehemently against foreign buyers purchasing our existing housing stock full stop. I don’t own property, would dearly love to but can see that opportunity bolting further away with this ...
They can’t credibly keep the clean car discount after the almighty ruckus they made against it. Ute tax! Subsidies for the wealthy! But knowing the media they wouldn’t criticise or even bother mentioning the sheer hypocrisy.
Do Nat voters actually care? What exactly are their values? I saw a meme someone posted on another feed that pretty much says it all - money and making more of it.
That article is ridiculous, for a start she would have to realise the market in NZ for bright wallpaper is tiny given our population and therefore wealth compared to Australia. Marc Ellis has an Italian wife and maybe she wanted to go back to family. With ...
Agree, I’d say lower income families would be buying more processed food - cheaper and saves time - rather than expensive cauliflower and broccoli and therefore wouldn’t reap the so called benefits of gst off fresh fruit and vege. This is pure virtue ...
I agree, the personalities that have left recently all seem to have ego issues and no regard for their supporters. Sure the opposition and media crowing hasn’t helped but they all just seemed to have willingly stepped into the giant sinkhole created for ...
She doesn’t have poor mental health, she’s just having some issues that are affecting her mental health. It happens to many of us after big life stresses and situations. She probably should’ve taken more time when issues first started arising. I think the ...
I wonder how much of this is due to the media and opposition constantly bagging the govt for every tiny move. I don’t recall it ever being so bad/prolific.
Done with Labour, two ticks Green Party. A cgt, land tax, wealth tax whatever way it’s spun is a bottom line with me, it’s time the left properly addressed housing un-affordability and equity/equality. Ardern pissed me off by ruling it out and now Hipkins ...
Like button! Agree wholeheartedly with this, ka pai
How about National just come up with good, properly costed policy that benefits the many instead of the few? Might be a more honourable way to win an election. The muckraking is despicable, desperate and makes them look like bitchy school kids and snakes ...
Why is anybody listening to Woodhouse after the toilet seat debacle? He showed his misogynist colours and therefore cancelled himself from any higher ground I would’ve thought.
Obvious to us but appears not to be obvious to the politicians. Same as Luxon’s hypocrisy over the Tesla debacle. I’m sick of the self serving, do as I say not as I do, nature of politicians.
So politicians shouldn’t own any shares at all or just ones that potentially affect their portfolio? Or is the problem the lack of declaration rather than the conflict of interest? By this rational should they be landlords? That is a massive conflict of ...
Luxon is the biggest whiniest bitch of them all, must be drawing energy from whom he is surrounded by, like attracts like as they say. I can’t think of another politician that has publicly spouted so much negative drivel about his fellow country/people, ...
Gold, he really is an empty vessel.
Agree and it appears to me the rw are among the guiltiest of this. The news is full of the opposition whining, negative business leaders, farmers, teachers, nurses, you name it. National have actively pursued this route during and after covid and I became ...
Let’s face it, the guy is a fucking idiot and too rich to care.
I have a small business and my biggest costs are rent and utilities - can they stop those being loaded onto me?? Also what the hell are ‘bottlenecks’? The most frustrating thing about National and ACT is the empty rhetoric and finger pointing but never ...
Another reason why it sucks to be a woman, reduced to being a feeling or an idea of one in a man’s head but not allowed to have them ourselves.
How bloody hard is it to a. Check yourself before you hit ‘post’ on a stupid sexist joke on Facebook and b. As the National Party selection committee get the candidates to edit/vet their Facebook pages in case there is something inflammatory on it? We are ...
Agreed, refreshing.
Yes and what surprises me about Hipkins is that given the PP rally and media interest that one of his team had not already flagged that this could be something that could be asked at anytime by media and front footed it. I think Ardern would have had a ...
I listened to this podcast from Sam Harris, my partner subscribes so I was able to listen to the whole thing. Excellent breakdown of language around gender, the two extremes of the trans debate going up against each other with no ground for the middle, ...
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