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For those near Auckland:
https://twitter.com/SachaDylan/status/1334007603626557445
Theres a full Hotere exhibition in the Dunedin Art Gallery for those inclined.
Yep, would love to see that one. https://dunedin.art.museum/exhibitions/present/ralph-hotere/
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018773297/coming-soon-a-long-hot-and-possibly-deadly-summer
We should be learning about Australian aboriginal fire control. Also what Maori practices were. And watching that we don't plant swathes of really flammable trees, such as I believe, manuka are. Perhaps manuka should not be grown on slopes of certain degrees as fire rushes up a slope. We found that our in the Nelson region with the Pigeon Valley fire that whooshed away and was a Big Problem for too long. And then we had a couple of nutty people, a man and woman, and I think another man, getting keen on this fire business and starting some more. People on the brink of mental control are a problem that needs facing and containing.
Fire setting fools and arsonists need to be put under restraint during summer seasons. It is time to bring back mental hospitals and have prisons that are built to house the criminally insane. I don't think they should be very big, rather that there are a number throughout our islands. And prisons need to be run using the latest methods with a psychological bent, rather than the brutal way we are hearing about ours now.
https://www.corrections.govt.nz/working_with_offenders/prison_sentences/being_in_prison/health_care
Thanks for that – sounds good. Implementation can be the nub.
https://twitter.com/hcirePT/status/1334368786883829760
Here's one of the job adverts. Not fast adapters here, given borders are closed.
https://worktheseasons.co.nz/jobs/seasonal-solutions-cooperative-limited-539/598035
Other jobs say payment depends on work i.e. minimum wage for inexperienced pickers.
One wonders how they manage anything at all!
Government should tell them to get stuffed and I really hope that all the fruit growing stories now have headlines about "useless employers" rather than " kiwi's unwilling to work" or backpackers ( who don't have any experience either!) are the last hope and the rest of us need to be uber grateful to them.
Reminds me of this bloke.
Thanks for that gsays, 'Who's a jammy bastard ' then!
Just imagine if any major city in New Zealand proposed to use 25% of new developments for affordable housing.
The City of Melbourne has a plan to set aside 25 per cent of new developments for affordable housing on City of Melbourne-owned land is expected to be approved next week.
The strategy would generate thousands of new rental properties in the municipality, which last year had a shortfall of at least 5500 affordable rentals, according to an independent assessment provided to council.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/tick-expected-for-plan-to-set-aside-25-percent-of-new-buildings-on-city-land-for-affordable-rentals-20201203-p56kdu.html
Plenty of commentators piling onto the government about housing: the secret to building more affordable housing faster is in the hands of local government.