There is plenty that can be done and much of the current gormless planning is making it worse especially in Auckland where planners allow properties to run over building to non permeable surfaces more often than not against the rules as a matter of course,...
Climate change and bizarre weather patterns are effecting weather, land and housing. But the Auckland (and other) councils, environmental lawyers growing rich and the bovine environment court (that is just a rubber stamp to development no matter what the ...
Who knew Ports of Auckland were privately owned... maybe they think that they are because of the stupid COO structure but unless they were sold off by Auckland council they are still an asset owned by the ratepayers of Auckland or are supposed to be even ...
The sort of stupidity and bureaucracy we have come to expect from NZ officials... Kaikoura homeless sent 260km away as housing units sit empty https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018680086/kaikoura-homeless-sent-260km-away-as-...
The problem is that the firms bringing in the low cost labour and tourists are having their profits subsidised by Kiwi taxpayers who have to pay for the hospitals and schools and roads and wastewater that all these cheaper workers and tourists need, ...
NZ has a quality construction issue which after lazy immigration, is the 2nd biggest problem facing the housing crisis. As fast as our Rogernomics market based construction solutions build them, they need remedial work and can't be lived in, throwing more ...
Thanks Drowsy. But under Labour/NZ First/Greens last year sounds like immigration and work permits INCREASED (not stabilised) dramatically, according to TDB, 4 million tourists, 129,000 new migrants and 150,000 temporary work permits, combined they nearly ...
Yes, American's spend the most on health care in the world and have one of the worst most expensive and inequatitable systems. I think something like 40% of American's don't even have access to health care and they are paying through the nose for that! ...
+1 millsy
Who cares what system, the public isn't concerned they just want a usable fair service, the HOP is a failure for families and children and many others. Why defend them? Even the commerce commission or consumer affairs (can't remember which) are ...
What is your point??? HOP cards cost $10 and you can't easily buy one for a child and it takes time and ridiculously expensive those figures are from the AT website fares. One of the issues with HOP/AT/Auckland council is that so many people on the take in...
+1 ScottGN - here in NZ trying to get a child a HOP card is treated differently to an adult - the mind boggles why it is so hard to get one for a child and you have to send off ID, do paperwork online and then wait 72 hours....!!! Then how the HOP card ...
What planet are these people on if they think those paltry fines will act as a deterrent. Many of the migrants pay that just for the job in the first place! They should have a minimum $50k fine and increasing the more turnover the business has, then 10 ...
Yes but the Maori party sounded great at the time, but sadly hijacked for a "seat at the table" mentality. Now Maori seem worse off in terms of homelessness and wages and conditions post the near decade of support the Maori party gave to the Natz, which ...
Sorry greywarshark, for some reason open Mike was not up. You are right, wrong forum to post. One reason I also follow Brexit, is because the British have rushed into neoliberalism, tax havens and low wage workers, Thatcherism which is pretty much ...
@Remainders said things that were untrue also. That's why they need a revote, none of it was fair or true, first time around!
+1 WeTheBleeple
Times, change Jenny and I think judging in by the rise of offending for drugs like Meth and class A drug importation, corruption, fraud and so forth by our new resident migrants, make the OZ criminals deported here, seem petty by comparison. Even worse is ...
My God, NZ truely is becoming the new Australia of dumping ground of criminals either deported here, get residency here from immigration or are created as criminals because it's a viable alternative to working as a wage slave.
A good analysis rata, possibly why so few vote as it's so depressing. Sadly unless someone better comes along I might be tempted to vote for them, not because I think they will improve things or that they are deserving candidates, but more because Phil ...
Totally agree Patricia but it's getting much worse than 20 years ago as we now have super cheap global travel, the rise of tax havens, no language requirements, and have a significant amount of NZ residents or overseas middlemen, 'immigration' consultants ...
But there is no difference if a migrant is employing them or a Kiwi in a restaurant, so there is not net gain of jobs there James, and only a Natz thinker would consider running a middle of the road restaurant that was existing, is some sort of ...
+1 Pat
@ Quasimodo, if you read my post, I'm suggesting that we ditch lazy immigration of so called entrepreneurs who are just buying existing NZ businesses and assets like water or restaurants, often bringing in more migrant workers or creating overpriced ...
We need to change what we are doing in NZ! "Almost a decade ago now, I was at The Treasury trying to make sense of why New Zealand’s economic performance hadn’t been better. 100 years ago, you see, living standards in New Zealand were as high as those ...
A sad tale, and why NZ has to clamp down on bad immigration advisors and make it much simpler with little room for error for the applicants coming to NZ and hoodwinked by advisors what they can gain residency for. For example it has become easy for wealthy...
@James,, but the discourse around the referendum was lies.. Cambridge Analytica influenced and was paid to do so, Leave overspend so the election was based on cheating, and in the confusion, 30% did not vote at all.
@James, they asked once and the process was interfered with... how many referendums did you count because I count one, and 30% never voted and now the truth is not was portrayed and the everyday person is more aware of the consequences for them personally,...
Brexit exit - you have to wonder why they just don't have another referendum to 'check' that that was really what the UK public wanted, now the fake news of Brexit has been revealed and the reality of costs and consequences has become apparent. The ...
Go solar. Get rid of coal fired power stations... they are failing due to climate change... "Power outage in Melbourne as electricity generators fail and Victorians brace for hottest day since Black Saturday More than 200,000 households lost power in ...
From the above link "Fossil fuel company TransCanada is already suing the U.S. government, after the Obama administration rejected its proposed Keystone XL Pipeline on environmental grounds. Former NASA environmental scientist and now Columbia University ...
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