Daily review 09/02/2024

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19 comments on “Daily review 09/02/2024 ”

  1. adam 1

    I think Newton, Huey P. Got it right way back in Sep. 1970 and sums up for me, why act and the whole Tory collective are shit house.

    "The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, has become the right to death, oppression and the pursuit of profit"

  2. adam 2

    So jobs gone. From what was once an Aussie Icon, Beaurepaires.

  3. Macro 4

    I'm struggling to determine which of the C of C* "Ministers" is the more stupid.

    Simeon Brown, David Seymour, or you name them.

    Last year the hottest on record in 150 years and we can every incentive to transition NZ's vehicle fleet away from Fossil Fuels resulting in a massive drop in purchase of EVs and a huge rise in diesel and petrol gas guzzlers.

    Tonight, not content with creating division and dissent over the treaty, we hear Seymour plans to bring back Pseudoephedrine !!!!??? No doubt he wants to increase the number of Pharmacy break-ins and attacks so he and his mates can get tough on crime.

    The C of C was so aptly named by their so called leader.

    *Coalition of Chaos

    • AB 4.1

      Pretty sure it's a giveaway to employers: more people back at work earlier because they feel superficially better. So potentially less cost to employers from using temps/casuals to plug gaps.

    • Anne 4.2

      It's payback time Macro. The rich boys and girls didn't donate $8 million to National out of the goodness of their hearts.

  4. bwaghorn 5

    https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/%E2%80%98-fabric-our-community%E2%80%99s-being-destroyed-airbnb%E2%80%99

    Want a laugh, optimistic national voter(just a guess) thinks national should not give air bnb owners a tax break!!

    • Muttonbird 5.1

      Even I would vote for that. Many jurisdictions across the world have banned Airbnb.

      https://www.tourism-review.com/short-term-rentals-strictly-regulated-worldwide-news13377#

    • Graeme 5.2

      A rather muddle headed hotel manager who's having trouble meeting his KPIs, maybe.. or a business operator who's getting hammered by an opportunistic sector that's able to undercut by socialising their costs and also pushing up the housing costs of his staff and also eliminating the staff's housing supply.

      But he's got a point about the damage some sectors of AirBnB is doing to Queenstown. And a possible solution to that damage.

      There's three groups of AirBnB operators

      1- the dedicated commercial people who own properties built for purpose and in correct zoning. These people are set up as a company, so pay tax and claim interest and other costs like any business. Will also pay tax on any capital gain.

      2- the people ho let out a spare room for the odd night and live in the property. No much different to having a boarder without them getting too attached to your house.

      3- the people who buy an investment house in a residential area and rather than put a long term tenant in let it out nightly on AirBnB. Generally owned by the individual or connected trust with the intent of making a tax free capital gain, and probably offsetting costs against taxable income somewhere else.

      Groups 1 & 2 don't cause much trouble, but the third group are just taking the piss on the town. They lead the property market up to the return they get from AirBnB, which in turn ramps up residential rentals. They also tend to be terrible neighbours.

      Rose's solution of restricting tax advantages to long term rentals could help reduce the harm this group of AirBnB operators are causing.

  5. Muttonbird 6

    Read it and weep. According to Peter Wilson, Luxon has no idea what he's doing in the face of the recalcitrant David Seymour:

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/508772/the-week-in-politics-seymour-s-bill-still-front-and-centre

  6. weka 7

    Robert, wondering if you can shed a more holistic light on this? Waterways and the people aspects.

    https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/dramatic-images-show-extent-southland-erosion

    • Robert Guyton 7.1

      Weka, coastal erosion is a big issue around the southern coast. My first exposure to the seriousness of the issue was through a report from iwi that described the greatly accelerated loss of cultural/wahi tapu sites from dunes-scapes/beaches around Murihiku because of changes to the ocean's behaviour and the strength of wave action.

      This particular issue at Bluecliffs has additional factors/complications; the Waiau river, for starters; moderated by the power station at Manapouri and greatly changed in its action, relating to the huge sand and gravel bars that have built-up where they once would have been cleared by the volume of water flowing down that awa. In this case, the river at its mouth has been diverted to run below the cliff-top settlement and is eating the whenua at pace. The proposal is to bulldoze through the gravel bar and divert the flow; that's a significant technical challenge and we will see… As with so many occupied coastal sites in this country, historical "dumps", call them refuse-sites if you prefer, perch waiting to spill out into the ocean when the opportunity arrives, and here it has. Ever tried to determine what's in those dumps, by asking locals? Good luck. Here, there are claims that explosives have been deposited, adding to the romance of securing the eroding land in order to save the houses. There has been a great deal of rain this summer in Southland; it's raining again today. Water, water, everywhere! Disclaimer: I am not especially knowledgable about this issue, as the emergency is being called by the mayor of the Southland District council and I'm regional. Emergency Management Southland is a superb agency and will manage this in the optimal way, I am certain, but there are "factors".

      Hope that sheds some light. The article you've linked-to tells a lot.

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