Might inconvenient courts/commissions be fast-tracked for 'fixing'? Time will tell. Aotearoa is small, with poverty aplenty. Trust 'our' CoC govt to be fair? That's a joke
Done - the venal architects of 'fast-track' are bent on short-sighted shortcuts, and shortcuts + 'fast-track' 'fast-buck' is a sad scam. Can't trust 'em, but I put it more gently.
Cuts to science and environment funding will hinder NZ’s climate response – scientists [15 April 2024] New Zealander of the Year Jim Salinger says government cuts to science funding will put Aotearoa even further behind other countries in terms of ...
That we are becoming a nation of renters. Your own data confirms that. Agreed, but characterising NZ as "a follower not a leader" in such a trend seems inconsistent with our current 9th place - wouldn't it be more accurate to say NZ is in the vanguard of ...
The poll sugar hit National will get in May's budget will ensure they repeat this killoff in 2925. The effects of a (mother of all / black) budget can linger long, but 2925?!! Just imagine... https://www.amazon.com.au/World-2050-Think-About-Future/dp/...
The cartoon is clever but inaccurate. I see you've cleverly avoided commenting on my questions. Maybe the cartoon is about more than just landLord properties - yep, as far as I can tell landLords don't even get a mention. https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/...
Anne Salmond: NZ is a democracy, not a company [11 April 2024] Opinion: How the weakening or avoiding of parliamentary and external checks and balances on executive power risks NZ becoming more authoritarian If a Prime Minister thinks of himself as a CEO,...
"Housing affordability in New Zealand plummets to all-time low" So what is being done to improve housing affordability for families aspiring to own their own home? Asking particularly on behalf of the 50% of Kiwis seated to the right at the table below. ...
In the intervening years, ideally we're moving towards that and building equity in our home. And "building equity" or "being mortgage free" are increasingly remote options for an increasing proportion of Kiwis - but why?
For most people, being mortgage free with children still at home is more than a stretch. Yes - and less common than it used to be? https://www.cliffsnotes.com/tutors-problems/Sociology/53891751-A-broad-inclusive-definition-of-family-is-a-group-of-...
Mortgage free home ownership has almost only been for a few. Depends what's meant by '"a few" - a bit like the reckon that NZ is "a follower not a leader" in falling rates of home ownership. New Zealand’s other looming housing crisis [30 Nov 2022] In 1986...
I don't understand how true (mortgage-free) home ownership wouldn't increase a family's financial security, but fair enough - maybe your children will see things differently when they're your age.
It's interesting that you frame declining home ownership rates as a 'race to the bottom'. Is it? Maybe financial security isn't as big a deal as it once was, but (for me) true home ownership represents a level of security that I would prefer for every ...
Seems like a leading comment - maybe not all tenants.
Good (land)Lord, in this 2024 list, NZ is in 179th place out of 196 countries. https://ceoworld.biz/2024/01/28/ranked-these-are-the-countries-with-the-most-and-least-home-ownership-rate-2024/ NZ is more like a leader than a follower in any race to the ...
NZ is increasingly going to be a nation of renters. It's an international trend that as a nation we are a follower not a leader. Perhaps we are a "fast follower", or maybe an overtaking follower In this list of countries by home ownership rate, NZ is 15th...
Sorry weka - I meant free to me and many other users of (the most excellent) TS platform/blog - sincerely hope it's not costing you, or anyone else, too much. And a sincere thanks for the time and effort put in to keep the infrastructure and comments ...
Seconding that validation of the worth/value of comments made by Robert Guyton. A few of RG's comments might be considered tangential, opaque, cryptic, or otherwise 'challenging' (brain food, imho) - but 'offensive'? That's a stretch, although everyone has...
Everyone has their own idea about what an insult is... Agree 100% weka - you'd have to be a "flailing idiot" not to When an Argument Gets Too Heated, Here’s What to Say [3 March 2016] If you go first in validating the importance of the debate and the ...
Love it Stephen. I'm old (not only as old as I feel), and not everything is really getting worse - just many things. How to prop up profits on a spaceship in overshoot - that is the question... The Commodification of Everything [21 Nov 2023] Understanding...
Thanks TT = I've given a one-off $100 donation, and signed the F&B submission. Proposed ministerial override powers are a bad precedent. If override powers are OK now, then current ministers will presumably be OK with Labour/Green/TPM ministers allocating ...
My point here is that detrans people exist. Naturally - nontrans, trans and detrans people are all real, imho. This really shouldn't be controversial in any sense of the word, but it's a fast-moving and politically-charged field - a minefield really. ...
Can't afford regular donations, but time for another one-off donation to Forest & Bird. https://www.forestandbird.org.nz/support-us/appeals/donate-forest-bird
can you point me to NZ healthcare services for detrans people? No, I can't. Maybe there are no such healthcare services available in NZ. That's certainly possible - we're a small country, and relatively less well-off (as a whole) than we once were. Seems ...
NZ is unlikely to follow US politics imo... Yes, that's unlikely, although "it is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future" - recall MAGA Muller, not to mention our current pro-gun MPs. Any trans health care in NZ needs to include care ...
I am curious, did you read Ritchie, and Keira Bell's stories? No - are they consistent with a belief that "on balance, it's better to delay/withhold most/all irreversible [gender-affirming] interventions for as long as possible"? https://theconversation....
Cuts to science and environment funding will hinder NZ’s climate response - scientists [15 April 2024] New Zealander of the Year Jim Salinger says government cuts to science funding will put Aotearoa even further behind other countries in terms of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Review While not supporting every action of every trans rights activist, I would tend to count myself as an ally (observer status only) in many of their causes. My current views have much to do with my two (now young ...
You're right - that wouldn't change much - National party MPs would still typically own more properties than the average MP, and MPs from the other parties would typically own less than the average. Just speculating, but when a party substantially ...
Yes, best not party vote Labour or ACT - there are better options, imho.
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