This is unbelievable. After all the people of Christchurch have had to endure, they now find out that inadequate house repairs could be a catastrophe…
Damage specialist warns of ‘catastrophe’ for homeowners
A Christchurch earthquake-damage specialist is warning homeowners face “a catastrophe” because of inadequate house repairs.Registered surveyor Adrian Cowie, who has been assessing homes since the September 2010 quake, said the recent Government investigation into unconsented repairs only revealed a small fraction of inadequate work.
Cowie made the comments before addressing quake-hit homeowners at the Transitional Cathedral on Thursday night, along with experts discussing quake issues.
“People are being left with damaged homes that have not been repaired properly,” he said.
Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee’s announcement that all unconsented EQC foundation repairs would be audited after a Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) investigation would not address the big issues, he said.
“We’ve got a catastrophe in Christchurch and everyone is ignoring it,” he said.
…so with Campbell Live killed off for political reasons by TV3’s pro National management team, who will fight for the people of Christchurch now?
This pro-National Party stooge…
…this pro-National Party stooge…
…or the faux bloke outrage of Butch and Heather?
…seeing as one of the reasons TV3 killed off Campbell Live was because John went on too many Christchurch crusades, it’s easy to suggest that TV3 will be more focused on lazy stories like offenders cutting their bracelets off than actual journalism.
How about asking journalist to try to be objective? When you campaign for biased media (your own side of politics), you can’t claim the moral high-ground. Just sounds like whingeing.
Everyone has biases but those who actively detect that in themselves and work to suppress the impulse have my respect.
The political commentator Colin James, it took me a long time to detect his leanings but he has gravitas because he doesn’t cling to one side of politics.
I know it’s old fashioned and against the “advocacy journalism” in vogue today. It would be nice in NZ not to have Fox/MSNBC biases to be championed.
Just because JC showed the government’s policies wanting, it doesn’t necessarily make him left leaning and therefore suspect, they were and are still wanting! The focus of always following a market led focus, particularly in the aftermath of a disaster like the Christchurch earthquakes, doesn’t work for the people affected, only for the people providing the money. Next month it will be five years since, and still the city looks like a war zone, and still there are many who are not sorted financially and rehoused. And, now some of the ‘repairs’ have proved to be faulty and we watch as the those responsible scuttle to dodge culpability.
What is it about neo liberalism that it needs such a huge army of stooges to saturate the public media ?
Something to hide?
Most definitely so.
Just look at chief stooge Hosking.
And what have they all got in common in this country ?
Yep…you guessed it – they all have their jowls right up ‘ PM ‘ keys cheeks.
Winston was right .
Get the fat little Maori Boy on TV3 to get on the job.
Duh Sorry I forgot his wages were paid by the Tories.
Hopefully the Government will sue Fletchers for negligence.
yeah and we all know pigs fly
Are flying pigs low-risk, or high-risk under the new “business-friendly, Health and Safety” laws?
What I can’t understand about Christchurch is that so many of them have been complaining and yet they still voted for National after Campbell Live had a huge hall of them looking disgruntled before the election. The first thing I would ask anyone Christchurch resident who is complaining is “who did you vote for” before lending them a sympathetic ear
They, “EP” were the rich Christchurch people, who got their houses fixed up early in the priority list “Brownlee’s Priority Cantabrians” aka National voters. Full inside and outside plaster and paint jobs if they saw a hairline crack above a window.
This left little or no money left for the rest, who fought (and are still fighting) for repairs and just gave up the fight and accepted substandard “jack and pack” instead of proper foundation repairs.
The East is still a ‘war zone, like Bush’s New Orleans and the same east-dwellers whom Slater Whale Vomit called “the scum Labour voters of Christchurch”
It’s unofficial apartheid in Christchurch EP. Rich whites votes for Brownlee and his big-business mates. Poor and dark-skinned vote Labour.
Nothing new to see here, move on and blame the Irish, instead of National, where the blame really belongs.
No most Christchurch people did not vote for National. It’s evident that the Party vote was fricked with. Who would candidate vote Labour & then Party vote National. Some would split their vote Labour / Greens or Labour / NZ First but very few would vote Labour / National. Where ever a Labour Candidate won the seat, National won the Party vote. It even happened in the Maori Electorates.
Smell a rat their, very strange were the election results audited.
I wondered about this – the Te Atatu results were the same – a Labour MP, but National won the Party votes…..?
This point has taken a long time to surface!
My gut tells me the 2 weeks of early voting included many of the “missing million” (who probably were not voting National) The election result defied all rational plausibility.
ost quake voting in Christchurch reflected population changes -damage greater in traditional Labour seats, displacement of rental population, and focus on government response replacing real issues.
Gerrymandering (pun intended) has been in effect across the country, take a look at Hamilton. But questions about Labour electorate/national party vote disparities points at electronic tabulation and its manipulation.
I see in today’s Dominion Post that the broadcasting watchdog has upheld a complaint concerning Campbell Live and its reporting of the Eltham Buttermilk saga. Words like “The Campbell Live report was inaccurate and unfair.”
As well they ruled against the show for its reporting of the Canterbury earthquake anniversary.
What happened to my article on the Campbell porkies re the Eltham Butterfat saga and the Canterbury Earthquake anniversary. The Broadcasting watchdog findings were in the Dominion Post today.
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