Daily review 13/08/2021

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1. Chris T 1

   13 August 2021 at 6:06 pm

   Lord of the Ring series suddenly moving to the UK is a bit of a downer.

   Heard earlier it's a reported 2000 jobs.

   Will be an interesting Question time next week.
   • Janice 1.1

     13 August 2021 at 6:42 pm

     Sorry you will have to wait until the end of the month as they are in recess again.
     • Chris T 1.1.1

       13 August 2021 at 6:51 pm

       Lol

       Geezes, they get some holidays. Must have to recover from them convenient school holiday ones.

       Thanks for the heads up.
       • Incognito 1.1.1.1

         13 August 2021 at 10:24 pm

         Government is not ‘on holiday’ and the Opposition MPs need time to write their biographies and what have you. You don’t seem to know what recess means in this context. Odd.
   • David 1.2

     13 August 2021 at 8:15 pm

     Don’t get too excited. There will be the usual “I refute the implication “ “I’ll push back strongly on that” “Look over there, we planted 6 trees last week”
     • mac1 1.2.1

       13 August 2021 at 8:35 pm

       How about the country where there is currently 4% unemployment, an economy in which even some farmers are happy, where far fewer sleep on the streets, where children are at school, there have been fewer covid deaths than there have been weeks since the past deaths, where wages are rising, twice as many houses are being consented than a decade ago, where the All Blacks are still winning (note this written on Friday 13) and our athletes return with more Olympic medals then ever. You know- that country we live in.

       And we worry about a picture of Churchill? About utes. About Aotearoa as a name? About genuine histiry being taught in schools?

       We worry about a picture that gets filmed in England because we are too concerned to keep out people safe from a killer disease rather than make money for overseas movie moguls?

       Get a grip on reality. Get some perspective on what is important. He tangata. He tangata. He tangata.
       • DB Brown 1.2.1.1

         13 August 2021 at 9:00 pm

         Legend!
         • I Feel Love 1.2.1.1.1

           13 August 2021 at 9:04 pm

           Second that, absolute legend!
     • Fireblade 1.2.2

       13 August 2021 at 11:05 pm

       Please provide the links to prove your "quotes" David.

       If you can't provide them, then your just making false statements and your comment has no credibility.
     • scotty 1.2.3

       14 August 2021 at 2:59 am

       Keep up Davo ,60 000.

       I see DPF's tree planting meter fell into the hole it dug itself.
   • Gabby 1.3

     13 August 2021 at 10:20 pm

     Oh no, we're not pissing away more money into the Amazon?
2. Reality 2

   13 August 2021 at 8:56 pm

   Mac1 – how heartening to read such a balanced positive post instead of the incessant doom merchants who never see the sun shine, nor the stars twinkling, they never can see beautiful flowers blooming or birds chirping. What miserable friends and neighbours they must be.
   • mac1 2.1

     14 August 2021 at 7:04 pm

     With The Game about to start, let's see how NZ's wellbeing is after the Bledisloe Test.

     Me, being a Mako Man, I'm happy already to have seen Auckland off…… again. Sorry, Jaffas, but we provincials have to enjoy some compensation for not living in our biggest urban conglomeration….. 🙂
3. DS 3

   13 August 2021 at 9:18 pm

   Honestly, given the insane subsidies involved, Amazon's decision might actually be a blessing in disguise for this country.
   • dv 3.1

     13 August 2021 at 9:41 pm

     100m$ subsidy.

     I say good riddance.
4. Anker 4

   13 August 2021 at 9:18 pm

   • Are there far fewer people sleeping on the streets? Genuine question. Good to know…
   • people criticise motels but that’s got to be better than the streets assuming that’s where they are
   • mac1 4.1

     15 August 2021 at 2:01 pm

     Figures are hard to come by for right now, but Covid and new initiatives took the rough sleepers into accommodation.

     The wisdom seems to be that 5% of 'homeless' are actually rough sleepers and the definition of homeless is far wider than sleeping on the street, including temporary accommodation and the like.

     The latest figures are touted at being 23000 homeless and 5% of that gives a figure of just over a 1000 rough sleepers, way down from census figures in 2013 and 2018.

     There's quite some information on the web but these two are encouraging from 2020. I'd appreciate more information, better figures etc for August 2021 but if things had slipped I'd think that internet searches would reflect that.

     https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-rough-sleeping-all-but-eliminated-in-new-zealand-as-pandemic-crisis-frees-up-motels-and-housing/

     https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/homeless-choose-to-stay-housed-but-new-faces-appearing-on-streets/
   • Sabine 4.2

     15 August 2021 at 2:15 pm

     It is not 'critizing' motels, it is the the appearance of it being the only thing that can be done. And motels are simply just a form of transitional housing with no tenancy rights whatsoever and if one lives there longterm it can't be good especially for kids.

     Now if the government were to buy up Motels to turn these then into longterm, protected by tenancy laws rentals that would at least be something. But that is not what we do. It has however bought a motel at double the price per QV (maybe a sign of the future to come – sell you motels to the government) to keep it for transitional housing.

     The government warehousing homeless people in motels atm is doing nothing more then providing a thin veneer of 'doing something', while the underlying cause – lack of longterm, safe and affordable rentals, with full protection re tenancy laws, is not fixed, and that at great cost to the country.

     Because at the end of the day these people are still homeless without any chance of finding anything to rent anywhere, and they can get moved on without any say by Winz at any time of the day.
     • Incognito 4.2.1

       15 August 2021 at 2:46 pm

       The government warehousing homeless people in motels atm is doing nothing more then providing a thin veneer of 'doing something', while the underlying cause – lack of longterm, safe and affordable rentals, with full protection re tenancy laws, is not fixed, and that at great cost to the country.

       Good grief, what a load of old codswallop!

       As usual, you completely and conveniently ignore recent and ongoing developments. Either you’re a dim-witted troll or an ignorant simpleton, but in any case, constructive discussion with you is an oxymoron.
5. Incognito 5

   13 August 2021 at 9:49 pm

   Although it is night time, this brightened my day more than a Musk satellite train at dusk: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/yesterdaze-the-art-of-war-games
6. pat 6

   13 August 2021 at 10:42 pm

   Reasons to be cynical.

   1) Actions (and inactions) speak louder than words

   "The administration claims to be in the midst of a formal review of its policies on land resource extraction. Yet since taking office, Biden’s interior department has approved more than 2,000 new permits for drilling and fracking on federal land. In May, it appealed a federal court order that had paused fracking in Wayne national forest. In June, it advanced a proposal for new oil and gas exploration at Dinosaur national monument – a proposal the Trump administration had actually suspended under immense pressure from activists."

   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/12/is-biden-serious-about-climate-his-2000-drilling-and-fracking-permits-suggest-not

   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/12/pushing-oil-production-us-joe-biden-killing-climate-pledges

   Talk is cheap….and politicians are professional rhetoricians.

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