There might be some money for the true-blue Pakuranga electorate home owners of Bucklands Beach.
You are deluded Reddelusion. Improving the housing crisis by selling state houses is improving the housing situation? Similar to cutting out antibiotics will help reduce a bacterial infection. None of the present government's actions is actually aimed at ...
How about raising Auckland's rates to a level higher than any other local body in NZ. After all if the demand to go to Auckland is causing the housing problem, shouldn't we tax the demand to help reduce it?
Auckland is expanding too quickly. Auckland needs to spend lots more on infrastructure, parks etc. Rates in Auckland are lower than much of New Zealand. Wouldn't one of the best ways to solve a lot of problems be a really big increase in rates in Auckland?...
If you run a retail business taking cash - daily.
Good thing Hawkes Bay doesn't have seagulls and geese shitting on roofs......
If it is traveling 300m per day, it was probably in the Tukituki River four days earlier.
National Radio had comment on Morning Report yesterday that a 1970s study by the Ministry of Works proved that bacteria would flow up to 300metres per day in the Hawkes Bay aquifers. In other words the water is an underground river. Any water take from a ...
As it costs too much to go to a doctor on the sort of income our government thinks is acceptable for employed people, how are you going to afford a tubal ligation or a vasectomy?
New Zealand should not take people that Australia has thrown into limbo and then chucked our way. New Zealand representatives need to be in those concentration camps as independent witnesses and the New Zealand government must inform the Australian public ...
Should New Zealand examine whether we should as a country be actively involved in Australian regime change by overt or covert means? One area we could be start is by supporting independence fighters on Norfolk Island. Sending the SAS to rescue Kiwis on ...
If it is contamination in the aquifer it would seem the recent rains have pushed the contamination down to a location where it is picked up by the bore. The bore itself would be the first suspect - how old is it? - is it steel? - is it rusted through? - is...
The solution is to tax the rich and give the money to the poor. Simple.
Getting Nintendo to populate the Moon with Pokemon would probably be the quickest and cheapest way to populate the Moon with young people. You would need to install a Lunar GPS and satphone network - you'd need that for any Lunar colonisation - then the ...
If NZ drug manufacturers weren't handicapped by trade agreements we could probably manufacture duplicate copies of most of those imported drugs and probably considerably cheaper than the exorbitant cost charged by the mainly US "ethical" manufacturers. We ...
Keith, your comment "we are getting incredibly intense housing, wiped out heritage housing pre 1940" is a massive blurring of reality. The density possible under the Unitary Plan is not much greater than the density under the existing plans, and in some ...
The presence of the off-shore oil and gas fields of Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia in the South China Sea might have quite a lot to do with the Chinese expansion into the region.
Someone want to run a temperature bet with Rodney Hyde?
Actually drugs aren't as expensive as you think if you aren't regularly in the market and base you valuation on the prices reported in the MSM. These prices are always from a NZ Customs or more likely a Police press release. The value of the drugs is ...
Does the rest of New Zealand realise Aucklanders pay really low rates? Do Aucklanders? Would doubling Auckland's rates do anything?
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Its unfortunate that Kiwis don't squarely see that all "investors" that don't live in the houses they own are the primary cause of the house price bubble. The government's lack of a cheap housing option for low income families, the lack of good rights for ...
Neo-liberal ideology is theft. Greed is all.
WTF! At least the Greens have a policy, an objective clearly stated and and a good analysis of the problem.. The Nats are just starting to admit there might be a mild bump in the flight, when the engines are all over-running and on fire. Nick Smith admits ...
Lovelock's solution of replacing coal fired power stations with nuclear power stations doesn't seem all that permanent. His analysis of the safety of nuclear waste disposal is also very shallow as is his dismissal of renewable energy such as windpower. ...
The rich may well think they need lots of poor people to support their life-style. In reality they would be better off with less money in their bank and more in the pockets of the majority of people around them.
For "underlying situation" read "neo-liberal dominated world economy". The underlying situation is that there aren't enough middle to lower income people in the world with spare cash to buy new products. The imbalance of incomes is probably more ...
Amazing. I agree with Srylands about something. So-called affordable housing in SHAs is a joke. We will only get affordable housing when the government pays builders to build it, then controls prices by renting out the housing at well below the current ...
Don't forget there is detectable quantities of 1080 in tea leaves. Is Bell Tea a plot by the Green Party to kill old ladies?
Good thing about a wishy-washy long term promise like this is that another party will be in power for at least some of the time and you can blame them when the program doesn't come up with the goods.
Why 6m? Once all the ice melts we can expect a 60m sea level rise.
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