Hey that is a bit cynical. Chloe is also intelligent, well researched, hard working and with social media skills that any political party which is having difficulty getting its message out to the public would die for. Also in the entire Mayoral electoral ...
+ 1 to George Orwell and thanks rhinocrates for the excellent quote
That is what I have argued wrt housing Peter. But the same technique could be used for other perceived wrongs. https://medium.com/@brendon_harre/housing-affordability-the-question-is-why-not-how-or-what-cefffd2f9924#.fzghqzwuf
... article here. https://medium.com/@brendon_harre/housing-affordability-on-the-ground....interest.co.nz/opinion/84331/brendon-harre-says-become-fairer-society-we...
The main stream media are completely distracted by the fact their industry is imploding. This is the problem. Sites like this are great but they do not do much in depth analysis, OIAs etc and besides we are mainly preaching to the converted. I am not sure ...
Christchurch used to have great people centric city spaces. Check out the picture here. https://twitter.com/brendon_harre/status/792583866586324992
So is this the classic National trick of stealing policies from Labour and the Greens, rebottling then in a watered down form which they try to sell to the public as the "real deal"?
Is this nirvana New Zealand or Planet Key? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDscbVWRBCw
Great satirical cartoon. The tinkering on housing from Smith and co is just so damn depressing. I hope Labour/Greens present us with something visionary next year.
So how many affordable homes have been built in the SHA's?
JOHN KEY'S VICTORY SPEECH ... 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0WkS_UkbK8 "You voted for hope … You voted for action … You voted for results …" … John Key John Key was just joking. What he meant by hope -is the downgrading of expectations of the poor ...
Maybe -there is some well considered arguments for reducing immigration and the Green Party have recently made some moves in that direction. Here is a good write-up, discussing the Green Party immigration announcement. https://croakingcassandra.com/2016/10...
Wrong Helen Clark government got elected in 99 because of voter frustration with cutbacks in core public services such as health and education.The same dynamic could happen again but the public concern about core public services now includes housing and ...
I call BS on the view that National have the housing crisis well under control. It is a weeping sore which no matter what tinkering efforts they make they have not been able to fix. The public knows it tòo. The reality is Auckland and our other centres ...
Ad -this government has had economic growth due to a boom in immigration -this has driven the improvement in government finances -the Nats have finally produced something that they can sell as a 'surplus'. This allows John Key to play the tax cut dance. ...
Where did I say I was encouraging Auckland to grow? I am from Canterbury -it is growing too -lots of places are growing. FFS NZ has one of the fastest growing populations in the OECD. Planning could be cost neutral -those areas which are growing should be ...
.../dp/1558442456 https://medium.com/@brendon_harre/reciprocal-intensification-property-rights-fd15d7a12d06...
Your argument Groundhog doesn't follow because the private sector are massively overbuilding 4-5 bedroom homes even though the big increase in households is for 1-2 people. So it is a false argument to say that the private sector is better at allocating ...
I like this article because it goes from looking at 'what' to do -announce a target on water quality to 'why' we should do it -it is part of our cultural values (or should be). I think if the 'what' and 'why' are more carefully explained then it creates a ...
Re investing in a diversified economy. I wrote an article last year critiquing a cultural value which assumes a urban Auckland and a rural rest. Here is a link https://makingchristchurch.com/is-christchurch-a-big-farm-supply-town-or-a-diversified-urban-...
Re investing in a diversified economy. I wrote an article last year critiquing a cultural value which assumes a urban Auckland and a rural rest. Here is a link https://makingchristchurch.com/is-christchurch-a-big-farm-supply-town-or-a-diversified-urban-...
PGM I think there is more than one cause for incomes disconnecting from house prices. Disbanding the MoW for instance led to a massive infrastructure deficit for all our cities, local government in response made restrictions on house building tighter as ...
I like this one http://www.inthehouse.co.nz/video/45128 I also have had personal dealings with Phil and found him to be intelligent, caring and a good listener.
Why will this be the low point for the Nats CV? What will change so that the public think better of John Key and the Nats? Is this assertion based on some logic or is it what you hope will happen? Also I see it is your assertion further down the thread ...
Frank is right. The worm has turned. Key is not the political force he once was. The glib smiles, selfies, tom foolery are no longer working. His inaction on too many fronts has turned that superficial niceness that once was a strength to his biggest ...
Good comment. I think their is enough evidence showing that National cannot govern with the current group of support partners and will need NZ First to back the Nats not Labour/Greens if it will continue to be in government. But then the public mood could ...
1 in 20 polls are rogue. So the question is was the CB result rogue or accurate? Little and UMR believed it was rogue and showed evidence for National doing much worse and Labour doing better. Now we have another piece of evidence from the RM indicating ...
CV your bitter twisted commentary will get you no where. At best you will attract a small band of fellow eeyore's. But for what point?
Check the picture out here. I think it says it all about who is getting pissed off in NZ. https://twitter.com/Fsociety_NZ/status/780031024495337472/photo/1
Rodney Hide is a failure. His biggest opportunity to shape the governance of NZ was to reform Auckland to make it a better and more affordable city. His Super City reform completely failed to do this. It wasted years arguing over planning alignment to ...
Landlords paid the government $188m in taxes. How much did they receive in accommodation supplements? $1 billion or so? What is this subsidy achieving?
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