The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday – 25th February 2021

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  1. ” A group of Wellington students signed a $1040 per week lease for a four-bedroom flat, only to find one of the ‘bedrooms’ was also the lounge.

    Third-year law and psychology student Emily Cooper, 20, and her three flatmates signed the lease and handed over a $4160 bond sight-unseen because they were working full time in Auckland over the summer.

    They feared they would miss out if they waited. “We were getting very desperate because the term was about to start, and we still didn’t have a place,” Cooper said. ‘

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/renting/124118527/when-is-a-lounge-also-a-bedroom-wellingtons-rentals-reignite-calls-for-residential-wof

  2. Here is an example of our sexual assault laws “not working”, according to the Greens:

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/man-jailed-over-street-assault-appeals-decision-in-supreme-court/7VJJTCBWFIBDPPSGMRC3PYSSAM/

    Some curious things happening in there… lawyers for HRC more concerned with the public perception of the Bill of Rights than the collateral damage of ideology; no useful rehab in prisons making yet another entrance; and Labour saying they aren’t interested in going down the road of locking up everyone without consideration for wider context, unlike NZ First, National, and now The Greens. Contradiction everywhere you look.

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