willis getting caught being a dishonest hypocrite, all labpurs fault when in opposition ,all the council at fault now she's in power, kick her to touch nz.
3 waters replaced with rhetoric doing nothing but blaming others.Auckland is in massive trouble being the biggest contributor to the NZ economy Robertson and Hipkins could make good inroads into Nationals big surge last election .
Infrastructure in NZ needs a huge investment in water sewage and transport schools hospitals etc National will apply their austerity of the sinking lid and propaganda. Kicking the can down the road as in the Cook straight ferry's and building roads for votes. But they are heading for a massive let down the promise of inflationary causing tax cuts is all National can do.
Exactly what are the risks? How many parts per billion? I suspect the paranoia is fueled by technology that can detect infintesimal fractions of pathogens, pathogens that we humans have been associated with for tens of thousands of years. The only water we had to swim in before this incursion of forensic tech were generally rivers that drained huge swathes of farmland and bush which was almost certainly tainted to a greater or lesser degree. I cannot recall many if any gutsaches associated with a good refreshing swim on a hot day. I also suspect that this drive to live in a completely antiseptic world may be our ultimate undoing.
I went for a swim anyways so did plenty of others. Defintly think they are over cautious for a lot of the beaches.
Thats said there are plenty of spots where I wouldn't at pretty much no matter what swimsafe said knowing how bad and regular (if it rains it overflows) the sewage overflows are in the Henderson creek and entering the harbour at Te Atatu.
I think this is part of it, also the fall out from the Hastings debacle where thousands of people got sick from contaminated water and then a couple of councils sued each other or something.
But, we are polluting water to a much greater extent than we used to. Farming has intensified in the past 2 decades, more ecological systems have been fucked with or destroyed, and there are more people. Not maintaining infrastructure is another issue. It all compounds.
When Southland rivers started to reach pathological levels of contamination, the first place it turned up was in medical practices, where GPs noticed an upswing in children presenting with gastro illnesses. By the time water gets that polluted, it's very hard to address, not because we can't but because that waterway and community are so entrenched in destructive patterns.
I don't know what's happening in Auckland, but there is a beach in Dunedin that's always had warnings about sewerage issues, because the city pumps (or used to) its sewerage out to sea. Probably a reasonable thing originally given the size of the city, but eventually it wasn't.
Add to that climate change and increased rainfall pressures on everything. We're starting to see the hard end of our failures to respect nature.
Cities had them up to almost Victorian times. The main solid waste removed from domestic dwellings was solid human waste and ash from domestic fires. The human waste was dug out of backyard earth closets – mixed with ash in the street, and the whole lot was raked up and collected at street corners to be removed by horse and cart to the countryside and used as fertiliser. Worked on a small scale, but not on a large scale.
In bigger cities, human waste and other disposables were chucked into the rivers. In London, the "Great Stink" of the summer of 1858 (and the proximity of the Houses of Parliament to the Thames) forced action and the construction of the "Embankment" which provided interceptor drains which diverted small watercourses and drains further East for processing and then discharge closer to the sea.
Humanure is best dealt with onsite, or close to site, and the resulting compost used locally too. Humanure when managed properly is safe and not a threat to humans.
Also, we have many tech advantage that the Victorians didn't have.
Here's a film about a compost collective in Nelson. It gives an idea of the issues and tech involved, but this could adapted for human waste to compost.
"Also, we have many tech advantage that the Victorians didn't have."
Salient point, not just regarding humanure, but with so many other propositions that are countered with, "would you have us living in caves???"
There are examples across the internet, of "re-imagined" technologies that are honed-down, smartened-up versions of original prototypes, such as systems to manage manure from humans.
Auckland's problem is sewerage overflow after heavy rain. It's always (well, in my lifetime, and I'm sure before) been the case.
There is cross-linkage between the stormwater and the sewerage systems – especially in older areas which didn't have the separation built in.
They've just build a huge new sewer pipeline to try to deal with this in the high-priced Ponsonby area. NB: I think this should have been paid for by a targeted rate.
But there is also the issue of all of the 'stuff' from the streets (oil, dog poo, etc) being washed into the stormwater system after heavy rain. And this will always the the case. Swimming immediately after a downpour in a city is always at your own risk.
Growing up, we swam at an inner-harbour mudflat 'beach' – which had waste-water outlets and occasional sewerage overflows filtered through the bush and mangroves. You just didn't swim next to the outlets, and didn't put your head under after heavy rain.
Slight aside: Have a friend who's just had a large chunk of basal cell carcinoma removed. The oncologist was perfectly fine with her swimming in the sea (even with the odd health warning) – but was adamant that she shouldn't swim at the pools – a much greater degree of 'contamination' is present.
My street in Auckland was subdivided in 1905. My house originally had a "night cart" collection.
In 2005, the "Clear Harbour Alliance" separated the waste water and stormwater in our area to reduce pollution of the Meola catchment. I got a new wastewater connection, and the stormwater continued to be disposed by way of a sump which drains to the culverted and covered stream at the bottom of the street.
heavy rain and overflow is the end point issue, but underlying that is really bad design and philosophy around human waste. If one believes that there is a magical time/place where we will have the infrastructure and technology to manage increasing quantities of poo and pee (not to mention everything else that goes into sewerage), then we end up with systems like this that don't function within the limits of nature and generally don't respect nature as a consequence.
Climate change will increase the problem exponentially in compounding ways.
Many small villages in NZ have emptied sewerage into water ways. It works when populations are small and sparse. Once a certain population grows and becomes more dense, the systems simple stop working safely and well. We're at the limits of growth.
Fair point, let me rephrase. It worked for Pākehā for quite some time in that they didn't get sick from their own shit 😉 The system can't be scaled up because it is inherently disrespectful of nature.
In plenty of places in Aucjland its not heavy rain but any rain. With the massive population growth and new devlopments all plumbed into the existing infrastructure it fails almost daily in a couple of places. Basically on an out of sight out of mind basis. Hence the sad situation in Henderson creek / Te Wai o Pareira which is roundly ignored although thats slowly changing given the work of https://www.rivercaregroup.org/
A local communty group at its best imo everyone interested in their local waterways should take a look.
Not to mention the infill townhouse developments with full-site coverage (either from buildings or driveways) – removing any ability for the land to sponge up rainfall.
Absolutely. The old North Shore City Council used to require that any development which increased the amount of impervious area in the areas closer to the coastline, had to install detention/retention tanks to take the first flush of stormwater. These could be plumbed in to provide non-potable water for things like flushing toilets, watering gardens and providing the first rinse in a washing machine.
The tanks could be installed under a concrete driveway, or tucked under the eaves of a dwelling. One company even provided under eave tanks which mimicked the appearance of weatherboarding in historical areas.
I don't think this was carried into the Unitary Plan.
Its there, pretty much everybuild I work behind as a landscaper has retention tanks and there are rules about pemable space and some pretty cool permable paving products about now. Stoneset and Hydopave are good examples
"Add to that climate change and increased rainfall pressures on everything. We're starting to see the hard end of our failures to respect nature."
The sum of the difference between now and past years.
Add to that, the increased pressures on sewerage systems and related infrastructure in a rapidly growing population is going to require both financial and structural co-operation between councils and government. This is especially true of Auckland.
Madam Willis' comment does not auger well.
Councils are not entirely responsible for the situation. Past governments have to take some of the blame for their lack of over-all jurisdiction covering decades. For her to dismiss it as… "nothing to do with government"… is typical right-wing bull headedness and lack of comprehension about what is at stake.
In a former working life I used to have to know quite a bit about this.
The standards are based on a likelihood of making you sick, and as such have tangible meaning. There is a direct correlation between what is measured and the chance of a person becoming ill from swimming there. The unacceptable risk is quite low (e.g. you might only have a 5% chance of getting ill), but the risk is worse for immunocompromised people.
Events with lowish probability are particularly likely to induce the anecdotal fallacy
“The anecdotal fallacy occurs when people use their limited personal experience to make sweeping conclusions about a given topic. It is an exceedingly common fallacy to commit, and nearly everyone has done it at one point or another.”
Taken in Piemonte, Italy, the cathedral in the foreground is the Basilica of Superga, the mountain in the middle is Monviso, and, well, you know which moon is in the background.
Here is a list of NZ's top YouTube content creators. They got millions of followers and above all, are GROWING when legacy media are shedding jobs and seems to be in terminal decline.
Yet legacy media is utterly indifferent to their obvious appeal. Why is that?
people want to watch gamer and makeup YT rather than legacy media? Not sure what legacy media is supposed to take from that.
The only one I know is the tiny home dude, and his videos are excellent. The dude who goes to war torn countries and focuses on the good things looks interesting.
Is the class system fail vid about history or gaming? You see the problem?
I am currently on holiday so internet search skills are a bit limited.
The point isn't the content, it's that these people are growing an audience when legacy media numbers are falling despite a race to the bottom. These people are doing something right, yet the MSM pretends the audience they serve doesn't exist and the skills they have might not point to a different way of delivering content. Instead, it is a circle jerk of increasingly hubristic failure. 3news failing? No problem, they all get a job at TVNZ. TVNZ job cuts? They all fail over to commercial radio. All get sacked there? Back to TV or newspapers! RNZ struggling with a falling audience for news? They hire some proven dud from mediaworks to turn things around by doing more of the same. Not one of the top 20-30 youthful online content creators has been picked up by broadcast media, who prefer an increasingly rictus Simon or mummified Wendy and to continue to pretend they are the primary source of news and set the narrative, when really they are sliding to irrelevance because Topham Guerin has hired all the internet savvy kids.
yeah, not a lot to disagree with there. It's the same across society really. The people with the power are largely the people who lack the imagination to see how to do things differently (not everyone, there are people in MSM who get it but don't have the power to make the changes).
I don't have a TV or newspaper subs, so I rely on social media connections, google/archive, and listening to RNZ haphazardly to know what is going on. I then go and read/listen to/watch the MSM selectively. TVNZ and TV3 both seem stuck in pre-2010 internet with their online services. My take on that is they are more interested in clicks than people using their service well and I'm just not someone who is captured by clicks, so it doesn't work. Also autoplay and flashing ads on websites will often make me close the page.
Younger people will be less bothered by that, because for them it will be the norm. But it's still got fuck all to do with technology and everything to do with purpose and lack of imagination.
I don’t know what you consider NZ legacy media but I do think that NZ media are well aware of the many issues that are affecting them and that they deserve a little more credit.
YT is no substitute for professionally operated news media organisations.
My impression is that the indiscriminate use of YT clips here on TS has waned a wee bit. Yet, at the same time, some here complain about some Posts being too long, whilst others have no qualms dumping very long YT videos here under the pretence of making an independent original comment here.
Little wonder they're limiting press access to Gaza.
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The intensity of bombing in Gaza is something the researchers said they've never seen before.
"It's just the sheer speed of the damage," said Van Den Hoek. "All of these other conflicts that we're talking about [Ukraine, Syria, Yemen] are years long. This is a little over two months. And the sheer tempo of the bombing — not just the scale of it but the sheer tempo — there's nothing that tracks [like] this in such a short timeframe."
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The Financial Times did a statistical analysis that compared Gaza to the Allied bombing campaign over Germany during the Second World War.
Three cities in Germany were effectively destroyed from the air during that war: Cologne, Hamburg and Dresden. In Hamburg and Dresden, a mix of high explosives and incendiary bombs created the notorious "firestorm" conditions that caused streets to melt.
Data analyzed by Scher and Van Den Hoek shows that by Dec. 5, the percentage of Gaza's buildings that had been damaged or destroyed already had surpassed the destruction in Cologne and Dresden, and was approaching the level of Hamburg.
Israel Defence Forces (IDF) dropped around 1,000 bombs a day in the first week of the campaign and said that it had conducted more than 10,000 airstrikes on Gaza as of Dec. 10. The number of aircraft involved or bombs dropped on each mission is unknown, but Israel's main strike aircraft are capable of carrying six tons of bombs each.
For context, London was hit with an estimated 19,000 tons of bombs during the eight months of the Blitz, and the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima was equivalent to 15,000 tons of high explosive.
The figures for airstrikes do not take into account the many thousands of artillery shells fired into Gaza since Oct. 7
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1. Which of these would you not expect to read in The Waikato Invader?a. Luxon is here to do business, don’t you worry about thatb. Mr KPI expects results, and you better believe itc. This decisive man of action is getting me all hot and excitedd. Melissa Lee is how ...
The Government is again adding to New Zealand’s growing unemployment, this time cutting jobs at the agencies responsible for urban development and growing much needed housing stock. ...
With Minister Karen Chhour indicating in the House today that she either doesn’t know or care about the frontline cuts she’s making to Oranga Tamariki, we risk seeing more and more of our children falling through the cracks. ...
The Labour Party is saddened to learn of the death of Sir Robert Martin, a globally renowned disability advocate who led the way for disability rights both in New Zealand and internationally. ...
Labour is calling for the Government to urgently rethink its coalition commitment to restart live animal exports, Labour animal welfare spokesperson Rachel Boyack said. ...
Today’s Financial Stability Report has once again highlighted that poverty and deep inequality are political choices - and this Government is choosing to make them worse. ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to do more for our households in most need as unemployment rises and the cost of living crisis endures. ...
Unemployment is on the rise and it’s only going to get worse under this Government, Labour finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds said. Stats NZ figures show the unemployment rate grew to 4.3 percent in the March quarter from 4 percent in the December quarter. “This is the second rise in unemployment ...
The New Zealand Labour Party welcomes the entering into force of the European Union and New Zealand free trade agreement. This agreement opens the door for a huge increase in trade opportunities with a market of 450 million people who are high value discerning consumers of New Zealand goods and ...
The National-led Government continues its fiscal jiggery pokery with its Pharmac announcement today, Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall says. “The government has increased Pharmac funding but conceded it will only make minimal increases in access to medicine”, said Ayesha Verrall “This is far from the bold promises made to fund ...
This afternoon’s interim Waitangi Tribunal report must be taken seriously as it affects our most vulnerable children, Labour children’s spokesperson Willow-Jean Prime. ...
Te Pāti Māori are demanding the New Zealand Government support an international independent investigation into mass graves that have been uncovered at two hospitals on the Gaza strip, following weeks of assault by Israeli troops. Among the 392 bodies that have been recovered, are children and elderly civilians. Many of ...
Our two-tiered system for veterans’ support is out of step with our closest partners, and all parties in Parliament should work together to fix it, Labour veterans’ affairs spokesperson Greg O’Connor said. ...
Stripping two Ministers of their portfolios just six months into the job shows Christopher Luxon’s management style is lacking, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said. ...
Tonight’s court decision to overturn the summons of the Children’s Minister has enabled the Crown to continue making decisions about Māori without evidence, says Te Pāti Māori spokesperson for Children, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “The judicial system has this evening told the nation that this government can do whatever they want when ...
It appears Nicola Willis is about to pull the rug out from under the feet of local communities still dealing with the aftermath of last year’s severe weather, and local councils relying on funding to build back from these disasters. ...
The Government is making short-sighted changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that will take away environmental protection in favour of short-term profits, Labour’s environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The government's decision to reintroduce Three Strikes is a destructive and ineffective piece of law-making that will only exacerbate an inherently biased and racist criminal justice system, said Te Pāti Māori Justice Spokesperson, Tākuta Ferris, today. During the time Three Strikes was in place in Aotearoa, Māori and Pasifika received ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
Te Pāti Māori is disgusted at the confirmation that hundreds are set to lose their jobs at Oranga Tamariki, and the disestablishment of the Treaty Response Unit. “This act of absolute carelessness and out of touch decision making is committing tamariki to state abuse.” Said Te Pāti Māori Oranga Tamariki ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi, and Mema Paremata mō Tāmaki-Makaurau, Takutai Tarsh Kemp, will travel to the Gold Coast to strengthen ties with Māori in Australia next week (15-21 April). The visit, in the lead-up to the 9th Australian National Kapa haka Festival, will be an opportunity for both ...
The Government is modernising insurance law to better protect Kiwis and provide security in the event of a disaster, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly announced today. “These reforms are long overdue. New Zealand’s insurance law is complicated and dated, some of which is more than 100 years old. ...
The coalition Government is refreshing its approach to supporting pay equity claims as time-limited funding for the Pay Equity Taskforce comes to an end, Public Service Minister Nicola Willis says. “Three years ago, the then-government introduced changes to the Equal Pay Act to support pay equity bargaining. The changes were ...
Structured literacy will change the way New Zealand children learn to read - improving achievement and setting students up for success, Education Minister Erica Stanford says. “Being able to read and write is a fundamental life skill that too many young people are missing out on. Recent data shows that ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay says Canada’s refusal to comply in full with a CPTPP trade dispute ruling in our favour over dairy trade is cynical and New Zealand has no intention of backing down. Mr McClay said he has asked for urgent legal advice in respect of our ‘next move’ ...
The rights of our children and young people will be enhanced by changes the coalition Government will make to strengthen oversight of the Oranga Tamariki system, including restoring a single Children’s Commissioner. “The Government is committed to delivering better public services that care for our most at-risk young people and ...
The Government is making it easier for minor changes to be made to a building consent so building a home is easier and more affordable, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “The coalition Government is focused on making it easier and cheaper to build homes so we can ...
New Zealand lost a true legend when internationally renowned disability advocate Sir Robert Martin (KNZM) passed away at his home in Whanganui last night, Disabilities Issues Minister Louise Upston says. “Our Government’s thoughts are with his wife Lynda, family and community, those he has worked with, the disability community in ...
Good evening – Before discussing the challenges and opportunities facing New Zealand’s foreign policy, we’d like to first acknowledge the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. You have contributed to debates about New Zealand foreign policy over a long period of time, and we thank you for hosting us. ...
From today, passengers travelling internationally from Auckland Airport will be able to keep laptops and liquids in their carry-on bags for security screening thanks to new technology, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Creating a more efficient and seamless travel experience is important for holidaymakers and businesses, enabling faster movement through ...
People with an interest in the health of Northland’s marine ecosystems are invited to a public meeting to discuss how to deal with kina barrens, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones will lead the discussion, which will take place on Friday, 10 May, at Awanui Hotel in ...
Kiwi exporters are $100 million better off today with the NZ EU FTA entering into force says Trade Minister Todd McClay. “This is all part of our plan to grow the economy. New Zealand's prosperity depends on international trade, making up 60 per cent of the country’s total economic activity. ...
There are heartening signs that the extractive sector is once again becoming an attractive prospect for investors and a source of economic prosperity for New Zealand, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The beginnings of a resurgence in extractive industries are apparent in media reports of the sector in the past ...
The return of the historic Ō-Rākau battle site to the descendants of those who fought there moved one step closer today with the first reading of Te Pire mō Ō-Rākau, Te Pae o Maumahara / The Ō-Rākau Remembrance Bill. The Bill will entrust the 9.7-hectare battle site, five kilometres west ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has announced 25 new high-speed EV charging hubs along key routes between major urban centres and outlined the Government’s plan to supercharge New Zealand’s EV infrastructure. The hubs will each have several chargers and be capable of charging at least four – and up to 10 ...
The coalition Government will not proceed with the previous Government’s plans to regulate residential property managers, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. “I have written to the Chairperson of the Social Services and Community Committee to inform him that the Government does not intend to support the Residential Property Managers Bill ...
The Government has announced an independent review into the disability support system funded by the Ministry of Disabled People – Whaikaha. Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston says the review will look at what can be done to strengthen the long-term sustainability of Disability Support Services to provide disabled people and ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has attended the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva and outlined the Government’s plan to restore law and order. “Speaking to the United Nations Human Rights Council provided us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while responding to issues and ...
The Government and Rotorua Lakes Council are committed to working closely together to end the use of contracted emergency housing motels in Rotorua. Associate Minister of Housing (Social Housing) Tama Potaka says the Government remains committed to ending the long-term use of contracted emergency housing motels in Rotorua by the ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay heads overseas today for high-level trade talks in the Gulf region, and a key OECD meeting in Paris. Mr McClay will travel to Riyadh to meet with counterparts from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). “New Zealand’s goods and services exports to the Gulf region ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford has outlined six education priorities to deliver a world-leading education system that sets Kiwi kids up for future success. “I’m putting ambition, achievement and outcomes at the heart of our education system. I want every child to be inspired and engaged in their learning so they ...
The new NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) App is a secure ‘one stop shop’ to provide the services drivers need, Transport Minister Simeon Brown and Digitising Government Minister Judith Collins say. “The NZTA App will enable an easier way for Kiwis to pay for Vehicle Registration and Road User Charges (RUC). ...
Whānau with tamariki growing up in emergency housing motels will be prioritised for social housing starting this week, says Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka. “Giving these whānau a better opportunity to build healthy stable lives for themselves and future generations is an essential part of the Government’s goal of reducing ...
Racing Minister Winston Peters has paid tribute to an icon of the industry with the recent passing of Dave O’Sullivan (OBE). “Our sympathies are with the O’Sullivan family with the sad news of Dave O’Sullivan’s recent passing,” Mr Peters says. “His contribution to racing, initially as a jockey and then ...
Assalaamu alaikum, greetings to you all. Eid Mubarak, everyone! I want to extend my warmest wishes to you and everyone celebrating this joyous occasion. It is a pleasure to be here. I have enjoyed Eid celebrations at Parliament before, but this is my first time joining you as the Minister ...
Associate Health Minister David Seymour has announced Pharmac’s largest ever budget of $6.294 billion over four years, fixing a $1.774 billion fiscal cliff. “Access to medicines is a crucial part of many Kiwis’ lives. We’ve committed to a budget allocation of $1.774 billion over four years so Kiwis are ...
Hon Paula Bennett has been appointed as member and chair of the Pharmac board, Associate Health Minister David Seymour announced today. "Pharmac is a critical part of New Zealand's health system and plays a significant role in ensuring that Kiwis have the best possible access to medicines,” says Mr Seymour. ...
Hundreds of New Zealand families affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) will benefit from a new Government focus on prevention and treatment, says Health Minister Dr Shane Reti. “We know FASD is a leading cause of preventable intellectual and neurodevelopmental disability in New Zealand,” Dr Reti says. “Every day, ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones today attended the official opening of Kaikohe’s new $14.7 million sports complex. “The completion of the Kaikohe Multi Sports Complex is a fantastic achievement for the Far North,” Mr Jones says. “This facility not only fulfils a long-held dream for local athletes, but also creates ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ engagements in Türkiye this week underlined the importance of diplomacy to meet growing global challenges. “Returning to the Gallipoli Peninsula to represent New Zealand at Anzac commemorations was a sombre reminder of the critical importance of diplomacy for de-escalating conflicts and easing tensions,” Mr Peters ...
Ambassador Millar, Burgemeester, Vandepitte, Excellencies, military representatives, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen – good morning and welcome to this sacred Anzac Day dawn service. It is an honour to be here on behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand at Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood – a deeply ...
Distinguished guests - It is an honour to return once again to this site which, as the resting place for so many of our war-dead, has become a sacred place for generations of New Zealanders. Our presence here and at the other special spaces of Gallipoli is made ...
Mai ia tawhiti pamamao, te moana nui a Kiwa, kua tae whakaiti mai matou, ki to koutou papa whenua. No koutou te tapuwae, no matou te tapuwae, kua honoa pumautia. Ko nga toa kua hinga nei, o te Waipounamu, o te Ika a Maui, he okioki tahi me o ...
Paul Goldsmith will take on responsibility for the Media and Communications portfolio, while Louise Upston will pick up the Disability Issues portfolio, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today. “Our Government is relentlessly focused on getting New Zealand back on track. As issues change in prominence, I plan to adjust Ministerial ...
Recreational catch limits will be reduced in areas of Fiordland and the Chatham Islands to help keep those fisheries healthy and sustainable, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The lower recreational daily catch limits for a range of finfish and shellfish species caught in the Fiordland Marine Area and ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealand’s hydrogen future, with the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. “I want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) expected to be introduced to Parliament next month. RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has today outlined the first RMA Amendment ...
Overseas models for regulating the oil and gas sector, including their decommissioning regimes, are being carefully scrutinised as a potential template for New Zealand’s own sector, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. The Coalition Government is focused on rebuilding investor confidence in New Zealand’s energy sector as it looks to strengthen ...
Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell has today released the Report of the Government Inquiry into the response to the North Island Severe Weather Events. “The report shows that New Zealand’s emergency management system is not fit-for-purpose and there are some significant gaps we need to address,” Mr Mitchell ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith is today travelling to Europe where he’ll update the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Government’s work to restore law and order. “Attending the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva provides us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while ...
Associate Agriculture Minister, Mark Patterson, formally reopened the world’s largest wool processing facility today in Awatoto, Napier, following a $50 million rebuild and refurbishment project. “The reopening of this facility will significantly lift the economic opportunities available to New Zealand’s wool sector, which already accounts for 20 per cent of ...
By Jo Moir, RNZ News political editor, and Craig McCulloch, deputy political editor New Zealand’s Labour Party is demanding Winston Peters be stood down as Foreign Minister for opening up the government to legal action over his “totally unacceptable” attack on a prominent AUKUS critic. In an interview on RNZ’s ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Brakenridge, Postdoctoral research fellow at Swinburne University, Centre for Urban Transitions, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute The Conversation, Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock People have a pretty intuitive sense of what is healthy – standing is better than sitting, exercise is great for overall ...
The Wellington-based Reserve Force soldier is now almost three years into his New Zealand Army career with 5th/7th Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment. ...
"The Government needs to release the review immediately as this reckless approach to change risks disjointed decision making and creates more distress and uncertainty for staff," Fitzsimons said. ...
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor Jeremiah Manele has been elected Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, polling 31 votes to 18 over rival candidate and former opposition leader Mathew Wale with one abstention. The final result of the election by secret ballot was announced by the Governor-General, Sir David Vunagi, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Priestley Habru, PhD candidate, public diplomacy, University of Adelaide Former foreign minister Jeremiah Manele has been elected the next prime minister of Solomon Islands, defeating the opposition leader, Matthew Wale, in a vote in parliament. The result is a mixed bag for ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shaun Eaves, Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Jamey Stutz, CC BY-SA How often do mountains collapse, volcanoes erupt or ice sheets melt? For Earth scientists, these are important questions as we try ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Flood, Professor of Sociology, Queensland University of Technology Shutterstock Most young adult men in Australia reject traditional ideas of masculinity that endorse aggression, stoicism and homophobia. Nonetheless, the ongoing influence of those ideas continues to harm men and the people ...
The NZQA proposal released to staff today would involve a net loss of 35 roles. There are 66 roles being disestablished with 13 of those currently vacant, and 31 new roles proposed, said Fleur Fitzsimons Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga ...
Alex Casey talks to Loren Taylor, the writer, director and star of new film The Moon is Upside Down, about assembling her dream ensemble cast, toilet paper pads and turning literal dreams into reality. There’s a moment in The Moon is Upside Down where frazzled anaesthetist Briar (Loren Taylor) gets ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassy Dittman, Senior Lecturer/Head of Course (Undergraduate Psychology), Research Fellow, Manna Institute, CQUniversity Australia With winter sports swinging into action, adults around the country have volunteered or been volunteered by others (humorously known as being “volun-told”) to coach junior sports teams. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karleen Gribble, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University richardernestyap/Shutterstock Parents are often advised to burp their babies after feeding them. Some people think burping after feeding is important to reduce or prevent discomfort crying, or to ...
Workers at a major ASB contact centre in Auckland have voted to take strike action and withdraw their labour following disappointing pay negotiations with the employer and an "offer" to workers that would leave them worse off than the previous year. ...
As the government tries to get the country back on track with a school phone ban, Tara Ward has an idea for where they should turn their attention to next.New Zealand students returned to school on Monday morning, but their cellphones did not. The government’s new phone ban began ...
The Labour Party is demanding Peters be stood down, saying "he's embarrassed the country" with a "totally unacceptable" attack on a prominent AUKUS critic. ...
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance, whose members were victims of a China-backed cyber attack, is discussing forming a standing committee to deal with foreign influence. ...
The PSA is concerned that the voluntary redundancies being offered to staff by Stats NZ will impact on the agency’s ability to deliver on its core functions. ...
Results ranged from surprisingly yum to soul-destroying. I love cooking. The kitchen is a hearth of culinary creation, of sensory delights, of gastronomic poetry. I also can’t afford anything nice. Why does a pack of instant noodles and some milk cost ten bucks? I love you, Aotearoa, but I miss ...
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor Police in Solomon Islands are on high alert ahead of the election of the prime minister today. The two candidates for the top job are former foreign affairs minister Jeremiah Manele at the head of the Coalition for National Unity and Transformation, which is ...
He’s fine but it feels like I’m losing a friend and it’s making me bitter. How do I say ‘enough is enough’? Want Hera’s help? Email your problem to helpme@thespinoff.co.nzHey Hera,I’ve recently moved in with a girlfriend, her partner Steve, and his friend. We all live in a lovely little house. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Chartres, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of Sydney shutterstockAhmet Misirligul/Shutterstock You go to the gym, eat healthy and walk as much as possible. You wash your hands and get vaccinated. You control your health. This is ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqueline Hendriks, Research Fellow and Lecturer, Curtin University Children and young people may be seeing news headlines about men murdering women or footage of people rallying to call for action. Perhaps they or their friends have even gone to the protests. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Balanzategui, Senior Lecturer in Media, RMIT University ABC “Bluey mania” shows no sign of abating. Bluey’s season finale, The Sign, was the most viewed ABC program of all time on iView. A “hidden” follow-up episode, aptly named The Surprise, created ...
Labour market figures came in softer than the Reserve Bank had forecast, but they won’t be enough to move the needle on interest rates, writes Catherine McGregor in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Unemployment ...
The campaign will engage the community and encourage submissions on the bill to the New Zealand government by the closing submission deadline of Friday 31st of May 2024 4pm. ...
The paper raises concerns about declining trust in New Zealand's political institutions and democratic processes, and the role that the overuse of Parliamentary urgency plays in that. ...
The Urban Habitat Collective was an attempt to built an innovative new form of apartment building in Wellington. Here’s why it failed, and why the idea could still work, writes co-founder Bronwen Newton. When we started the Urban Habitat Collective in November 2018, we thought we were starting a revolution, ...
Two decades ago this week, a controversial law that attempted to define ownership of the foreshore and seabed prompted a formidable display of outrage and kōtahitanga as 15,000 marched to parliament. Jamie Tahana looks back.‘Hīkoi, hīkoi,” they chanted by the thousands as the biggest Māori march in a generation ...
On an unusually hot night in January 2019, a little boy’s lifeless body was found face up in a small town’s sewage oxidation pond. To the police, it was an open and shut case: three-year-old Lachlan Jones had run away from his home in the Southland town of Gore, climbed ...
A Labour Party Member’s Bill aims to plug a culpability gap between manslaughter and health and safety breaches The post New push for corporate killing laws appeared first on Newsroom. ...
Terence O’Brien had the rare and no doubt undesired distinction of rising to one of the most exalted positions in New Zealand diplomacy, then being unceremoniously recalled to Wellington without explanation just when his career was at its zenith. What is perhaps more surprising is that he appears to have ...
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Rongotai MP Julie Anne Genter has apologised in Parliament after National accused her of intimidating and attacking one of its ministers in the House. ...
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Analysis - The United States has unveiled plans to boost the weapons trade with Australia and the UK, on the same day that Winston Peters is expected to sketch NZ's position on AUKUS. ...
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Lawyers representing two iwi as well as the Māori Women’s Welfare League on Wednesday asked the Court of Appeal to overturn last week’s High Court decision on the Waitangi Tribunal’s decision to summons Children’s Minister Karen Chhour. The Tribunal is currently investigating the Government’s decision to repeal section 7AA of ...
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https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/12/nicola-willis-says-councils-responsible-for-sewerage-management-as-most-auckland-beaches-unsafe-to-swim-on-27c-day.html
willis getting caught being a dishonest hypocrite, all labpurs fault when in opposition ,all the council at fault now she's in power, kick her to touch nz.
3 waters replaced with rhetoric doing nothing but blaming others.Auckland is in massive trouble being the biggest contributor to the NZ economy Robertson and Hipkins could make good inroads into Nationals big surge last election .
Infrastructure in NZ needs a huge investment in water sewage and transport schools hospitals etc National will apply their austerity of the sinking lid and propaganda. Kicking the can down the road as in the Cook straight ferry's and building roads for votes. But they are heading for a massive let down the promise of inflationary causing tax cuts is all National can do.
Heartfelt wishes for Health and safety during 2024.
Exactly what are the risks? How many parts per billion? I suspect the paranoia is fueled by technology that can detect infintesimal fractions of pathogens, pathogens that we humans have been associated with for tens of thousands of years. The only water we had to swim in before this incursion of forensic tech were generally rivers that drained huge swathes of farmland and bush which was almost certainly tainted to a greater or lesser degree. I cannot recall many if any gutsaches associated with a good refreshing swim on a hot day. I also suspect that this drive to live in a completely antiseptic world may be our ultimate undoing.
I went for a swim anyways so did plenty of others. Defintly think they are over cautious for a lot of the beaches.
Thats said there are plenty of spots where I wouldn't at pretty much no matter what swimsafe said knowing how bad and regular (if it rains it overflows) the sewage overflows are in the Henderson creek and entering the harbour at Te Atatu.
I think this is part of it, also the fall out from the Hastings debacle where thousands of people got sick from contaminated water and then a couple of councils sued each other or something.
But, we are polluting water to a much greater extent than we used to. Farming has intensified in the past 2 decades, more ecological systems have been fucked with or destroyed, and there are more people. Not maintaining infrastructure is another issue. It all compounds.
When Southland rivers started to reach pathological levels of contamination, the first place it turned up was in medical practices, where GPs noticed an upswing in children presenting with gastro illnesses. By the time water gets that polluted, it's very hard to address, not because we can't but because that waterway and community are so entrenched in destructive patterns.
I don't know what's happening in Auckland, but there is a beach in Dunedin that's always had warnings about sewerage issues, because the city pumps (or used to) its sewerage out to sea. Probably a reasonable thing originally given the size of the city, but eventually it wasn't.
Add to that climate change and increased rainfall pressures on everything. We're starting to see the hard end of our failures to respect nature.
Earth-closets are better than water-closets!
I was thinking this exact same thing!
Then imagining a city like Auckland converting. The block is imagination, philosophy and education, not technical.
Cities had them up to almost Victorian times. The main solid waste removed from domestic dwellings was solid human waste and ash from domestic fires. The human waste was dug out of backyard earth closets – mixed with ash in the street, and the whole lot was raked up and collected at street corners to be removed by horse and cart to the countryside and used as fertiliser. Worked on a small scale, but not on a large scale.
In bigger cities, human waste and other disposables were chucked into the rivers. In London, the "Great Stink" of the summer of 1858 (and the proximity of the Houses of Parliament to the Thames) forced action and the construction of the "Embankment" which provided interceptor drains which diverted small watercourses and drains further East for processing and then discharge closer to the sea.
Humanure is best dealt with onsite, or close to site, and the resulting compost used locally too. Humanure when managed properly is safe and not a threat to humans.
Also, we have many tech advantage that the Victorians didn't have.
Here's a film about a compost collective in Nelson. It gives an idea of the issues and tech involved, but this could adapted for human waste to compost.
"Also, we have many tech advantage that the Victorians didn't have."
Salient point, not just regarding humanure, but with so many other propositions that are countered with, "would you have us living in caves???"
There are examples across the internet, of "re-imagined" technologies that are honed-down, smartened-up versions of original prototypes, such as systems to manage manure from humans.
these are good in opening doorways to different thinking and approaches,
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/09/recycling-animal-and-human-dung-is-the-key-to-sustainable-farming/
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/03/urban-fish-ponds-low-tech-sewage-treatment-for-towns-and-cities/
Auckland's problem is sewerage overflow after heavy rain. It's always (well, in my lifetime, and I'm sure before) been the case.
There is cross-linkage between the stormwater and the sewerage systems – especially in older areas which didn't have the separation built in.
They've just build a huge new sewer pipeline to try to deal with this in the high-priced Ponsonby area. NB: I think this should have been paid for by a targeted rate.
https://www.mcconnelldowell.com/projects/st-marys-bay
But there is also the issue of all of the 'stuff' from the streets (oil, dog poo, etc) being washed into the stormwater system after heavy rain. And this will always the the case. Swimming immediately after a downpour in a city is always at your own risk.
Growing up, we swam at an inner-harbour mudflat 'beach' – which had waste-water outlets and occasional sewerage overflows filtered through the bush and mangroves. You just didn't swim next to the outlets, and didn't put your head under after heavy rain.
Slight aside: Have a friend who's just had a large chunk of basal cell carcinoma removed. The oncologist was perfectly fine with her swimming in the sea (even with the odd health warning) – but was adamant that she shouldn't swim at the pools – a much greater degree of 'contamination' is present.
My street in Auckland was subdivided in 1905. My house originally had a "night cart" collection.
In 2005, the "Clear Harbour Alliance" separated the waste water and stormwater in our area to reduce pollution of the Meola catchment. I got a new wastewater connection, and the stormwater continued to be disposed by way of a sump which drains to the culverted and covered stream at the bottom of the street.
lol that last paragraph.
heavy rain and overflow is the end point issue, but underlying that is really bad design and philosophy around human waste. If one believes that there is a magical time/place where we will have the infrastructure and technology to manage increasing quantities of poo and pee (not to mention everything else that goes into sewerage), then we end up with systems like this that don't function within the limits of nature and generally don't respect nature as a consequence.
Climate change will increase the problem exponentially in compounding ways.
Many small villages in NZ have emptied sewerage into water ways. It works when populations are small and sparse. Once a certain population grows and becomes more dense, the systems simple stop working safely and well. We're at the limits of growth.
" It works when populations are small and sparse. "
I beg to differ and I understand that manawhenua do also 🙂
Fair point, let me rephrase. It worked for Pākehā for quite some time in that they didn't get sick from their own shit 😉 The system can't be scaled up because it is inherently disrespectful of nature.
If you accept the indigenous view, Pakehā did get sick from their own shit.
They just didn't recognise their illness.
In plenty of places in Aucjland its not heavy rain but any rain. With the massive population growth and new devlopments all plumbed into the existing infrastructure it fails almost daily in a couple of places. Basically on an out of sight out of mind basis. Hence the sad situation in Henderson creek / Te Wai o Pareira which is roundly ignored although thats slowly changing given the work of https://www.rivercaregroup.org/
A local communty group at its best imo everyone interested in their local waterways should take a look.
Not to mention the infill townhouse developments with full-site coverage (either from buildings or driveways) – removing any ability for the land to sponge up rainfall.
Absolutely. The old North Shore City Council used to require that any development which increased the amount of impervious area in the areas closer to the coastline, had to install detention/retention tanks to take the first flush of stormwater. These could be plumbed in to provide non-potable water for things like flushing toilets, watering gardens and providing the first rinse in a washing machine.
The tanks could be installed under a concrete driveway, or tucked under the eaves of a dwelling. One company even provided under eave tanks which mimicked the appearance of weatherboarding in historical areas.
I don't think this was carried into the Unitary Plan.
Its there, pretty much everybuild I work behind as a landscaper has retention tanks and there are rules about pemable space and some pretty cool permable paving products about now. Stoneset and Hydopave are good examples
And the fish were bigger!
The sum of the difference between now and past years.
Add to that, the increased pressures on sewerage systems and related infrastructure in a rapidly growing population is going to require both financial and structural co-operation between councils and government. This is especially true of Auckland.
Madam Willis' comment does not auger well.
Councils are not entirely responsible for the situation. Past governments have to take some of the blame for their lack of over-all jurisdiction covering decades. For her to dismiss it as… "nothing to do with government"… is typical right-wing bull headedness and lack of comprehension about what is at stake.
She is a dunderhead.
Dunderhead, blunderhead*
*Fezzik
In a former working life I used to have to know quite a bit about this.
The standards are based on a likelihood of making you sick, and as such have tangible meaning. There is a direct correlation between what is measured and the chance of a person becoming ill from swimming there. The unacceptable risk is quite low (e.g. you might only have a 5% chance of getting ill), but the risk is worse for immunocompromised people.
https://environment.govt.nz/publications/microbiological-water-quality-guidelines-for-marine-and-freshwater-recreational-areas/part-iii-explanatory-notes-to-the-guidelines/#note-g-x
Events with lowish probability are particularly likely to induce the anecdotal fallacy
“The anecdotal fallacy occurs when people use their limited personal experience to make sweeping conclusions about a given topic. It is an exceedingly common fallacy to commit, and nearly everyone has done it at one point or another.”
Cathedral, mountain, moon.
Taken in Piemonte, Italy, the cathedral in the foreground is the Basilica of Superga, the mountain in the middle is Monviso, and, well, you know which moon is in the background.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231225.html
Here is a list of NZ's top YouTube content creators. They got millions of followers and above all, are GROWING when legacy media are shedding jobs and seems to be in terminal decline.
Yet legacy media is utterly indifferent to their obvious appeal. Why is that?
https://voyager.nz/blog/the-top-new-zealand-youtubers
people want to watch gamer and makeup YT rather than legacy media? Not sure what legacy media is supposed to take from that.
The only one I know is the tiny home dude, and his videos are excellent. The dude who goes to war torn countries and focuses on the good things looks interesting.
Is the class system fail vid about history or gaming? You see the problem?
I am currently on holiday so internet search skills are a bit limited.
The point isn't the content, it's that these people are growing an audience when legacy media numbers are falling despite a race to the bottom. These people are doing something right, yet the MSM pretends the audience they serve doesn't exist and the skills they have might not point to a different way of delivering content. Instead, it is a circle jerk of increasingly hubristic failure. 3news failing? No problem, they all get a job at TVNZ. TVNZ job cuts? They all fail over to commercial radio. All get sacked there? Back to TV or newspapers! RNZ struggling with a falling audience for news? They hire some proven dud from mediaworks to turn things around by doing more of the same. Not one of the top 20-30 youthful online content creators has been picked up by broadcast media, who prefer an increasingly rictus Simon or mummified Wendy and to continue to pretend they are the primary source of news and set the narrative, when really they are sliding to irrelevance because Topham Guerin has hired all the internet savvy kids.
yeah, not a lot to disagree with there. It's the same across society really. The people with the power are largely the people who lack the imagination to see how to do things differently (not everyone, there are people in MSM who get it but don't have the power to make the changes).
I don't have a TV or newspaper subs, so I rely on social media connections, google/archive, and listening to RNZ haphazardly to know what is going on. I then go and read/listen to/watch the MSM selectively. TVNZ and TV3 both seem stuck in pre-2010 internet with their online services. My take on that is they are more interested in clicks than people using their service well and I'm just not someone who is captured by clicks, so it doesn't work. Also autoplay and flashing ads on websites will often make me close the page.
Younger people will be less bothered by that, because for them it will be the norm. But it's still got fuck all to do with technology and everything to do with purpose and lack of imagination.
Oddly, this bloke didn't make the cut with >4 million subs and more than a billion views clocked.
https://www.youtube.com/@andy_cooks/shorts
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-drink/300946108/from-kitchen-nightmares-to-dream-career-the-kiwi-chef-bringing-the-heat-to-social-media
That’s likely because Sanctuary’s linked article was from more than three years ago, i.e., from the internet archives.
I don’t know what you consider NZ legacy media but I do think that NZ media are well aware of the many issues that are affecting them and that they deserve a little more credit.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/12/29/he-had-the-receipts-media-person-of-the-year/
YT is no substitute for professionally operated news media organisations.
My impression is that the indiscriminate use of YT clips here on TS has waned a wee bit. Yet, at the same time, some here complain about some Posts being too long, whilst others have no qualms dumping very long YT videos here under the pretence of making an independent original comment here.
Little wonder they're limiting press access to Gaza.
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The intensity of bombing in Gaza is something the researchers said they've never seen before.
"It's just the sheer speed of the damage," said Van Den Hoek. "All of these other conflicts that we're talking about [Ukraine, Syria, Yemen] are years long. This is a little over two months. And the sheer tempo of the bombing — not just the scale of it but the sheer tempo — there's nothing that tracks [like] this in such a short timeframe."
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The Financial Times did a statistical analysis that compared Gaza to the Allied bombing campaign over Germany during the Second World War.
Three cities in Germany were effectively destroyed from the air during that war: Cologne, Hamburg and Dresden. In Hamburg and Dresden, a mix of high explosives and incendiary bombs created the notorious "firestorm" conditions that caused streets to melt.
Data analyzed by Scher and Van Den Hoek shows that by Dec. 5, the percentage of Gaza's buildings that had been damaged or destroyed already had surpassed the destruction in Cologne and Dresden, and was approaching the level of Hamburg.
Israel Defence Forces (IDF) dropped around 1,000 bombs a day in the first week of the campaign and said that it had conducted more than 10,000 airstrikes on Gaza as of Dec. 10. The number of aircraft involved or bombs dropped on each mission is unknown, but Israel's main strike aircraft are capable of carrying six tons of bombs each.
For context, London was hit with an estimated 19,000 tons of bombs during the eight months of the Blitz, and the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima was equivalent to 15,000 tons of high explosive.
The figures for airstrikes do not take into account the many thousands of artillery shells fired into Gaza since Oct. 7
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/israel-gaza-bombing-hamas-civilian-casualties-1.7068647
https://youtu.be/y9McTlcaVUE?si=iGuSSkpDGmdMIQcT
Leave my wife alone you muppets
https://youtu.be/ind7BEZgWJU?si=B5XOQntlGVr2bH5V