It's a life crisis for 250 people and their families and subcontractors.
I talked to your friend this morning and suggest they start going over that Kepler ridge early tomorrow morning. Also be assured DoC team are in hourly contact with each other, and everyone will get a briefing morning and evening. Thursday they will be in ...
Hoping everyone in Otago and Westland has provisions and a full fuel tank. That's a mighty system coming down.
A Republic Party of animist howlers is making the super-devout Catholic Joe Biden look restrained and rational.
Robert since you insist on bringing a brown banana to a knife fight. The James Shaw Green Party knew about prosperity, and the left won't win again until people like you figure that out. 1. Tourists get here by car and plane. That's 11.4% of our total ...
Vineyards have a few benefits that no other crop has: Wineries mean you can drink and do a cycle trail. In fact it's anti-car. Central Otago is now powered by cycle trails Wineries mean you don't have to be rich to enjoy a glass of wine and lunch so it's ...
The Upper Room. Just like the Koru Lounge.
A really encouraging stance against McKee from Police.
NZ horticulture derives about $4.5 billion of exports from only 55,000 hectares of land. Viticulture is continuing strong expansion beyond Marlborough into Canterbury and Central Otago. Apple production was hit hard in Hawkes Bay. Kiwifruit is expanding ...
Well firstly it's not illegal for a government to go advice shopping. Climate Commission advice isn't binding. Even if they'd done something illegal, there's no that many NGOs would have the capacity. Maybe: Lawyers for Climate Action, Greenpeace, and ...
If a new US-built port for aid isn't "intervention" I'd like to see the operating definition. NATO isn't relevant here. There's good reason to expect the Gaza aid delivery story to change soon. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/what-aid-routes-...
If the US really does cut military aid to Israel, Israel re-aligns to Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The US gets the message. This may happen anyway when US military completes its Gaza port and forms new aid pipeline. If you want to see what Gaza looks like ...
Also lowering farmers' methane target by end of year, completely sidelining the Climate Commission despite its statutory role. Announcement yesterday.
Somewhat perplexing that Peak Oil doesn't appear to be a thing anymore. World oil consumption did peak in 2018. But is that the real longrun peak? In reality the peak when we do reach it will be one enforced by cooperation and regulation over pollution ...
Wanaka had about 70,000 tourists come through in Easter weekend. It also now has about 25,000 residents including Hawea. Wanaka has 2 supermarkets: a New World and a New World. And 1 4Square. If you shut them down for a couple of days when you're close to ...
Don't buy coastal in west Auckland either clifftop or valley or close to the beach. Either coast the geotech is shit. Don't buy coastal in Northland because actually the Brynderwyns are unwinding into Weetbix and not even the new SH1 to Warkworth holds up ...
Back in 2018 they had similar moral hazard v flood hazard buyout talks. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/12/we-just-want-resolution-piha-homeowners-anger-at-auckland-council-over-flood-damaged-homes.html ... which dragged on ... https://www....
They haven't even started on NZTA yet. And the aim is 7%. The question you're really asking is who uses public services. And the answer: it's mostly the poor, old, and powerless. That's why we have agencies for disability rights, veterans, the Office for ...
As if we didn't need the moral standards of war lowered further, there's a 1961 Geneva Convention against attacking embassies of other countries. If other countries follow suit, the system of embassies will rapidly decline and with it the idea of diplomacy...
Labour in the UK and in NZ could do worse than to go back to the Marmot report that Labour UK commissioned, which set out six areas to reduce inequality for people: https://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-reports/fair-society-healthy-lives-the-...
Honestly for a bunch of rich entitled white grumpies in Piha, I would do a couple of slightly harsh things without going PWA on their asses. 1. Don't protest when insurers walk away from Piha. And don't underwrite them. Or bail them out when re-stickered. ...
New Zealand's Labour has just gone through a massive year of disruption and key personnel loss, and electoral loss, and loss of power. So my warning to every Labour member reading this is simple: Keep your Party membership current. Because you may well ...
Jesus was gay. Or at least single, perfumed, fit, and with great hair.
In 2018 there were 400 occupied dwellings and a further 300 unoccupied. So in reality Piha's about 1,000 houses now. What you are looking at doing is forming a new version of CERA. CERA crossed with Kainga Ora. An entity with its own powers to value ...
The last time we saw a whole suburb red-stickered was when Christchurch'ss Brooklands, Avonside, New Brighton and Bexley were pretty written off. Piha is over 1,000 residents with average house value about $1.2million. It wouldn't be cheap or poltically ...
Several roads in Titirangi still down to one lane where half of the road has just fallen away. OMG AT. Also multiple Titirangi houses have just accepted the buyout cheque and are now on their way elsewhere. The tough coincidence for many in flood-affected ...
The Darwin-Singapore one is still in the running.
Labour 2017-23 shows what too much democracy looks like. It's just a process. Certainly isn't an objective by itself.
Since the old RMA didn't allow climate change to be considered as part of major decisions, isn't direct ministerial decisionmaking exactly what is needed? The only problem is that the right thought of it first, so they get their projects going rather than ...
If you want to see the most fun anyone ever had taking old petrol cars off the road, the best one it he Waikaraka Park Demolition Derby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN3wszv6LfQ Big one was held last night. I've gone there a couple of times with my ...
From 1944 to 1963 our top income tax was 94%. Despite multiple massive crises since, no government has proposed going back. Flew out of Queenstown this morning to Auckland, and across the two of them you have our gross wealth concentration.
Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...
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