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Let’s hope Paul Majureys 27+ business interests get scrutinised by PwC thoroughly.
Aucklamd Council pulls the pin on Majurey? Hopefully the Crown does too when it comes to all of the treaty settlements hes involved in. About 5 all up involving 19+ iwi.
He’s had an easy ride into Auckland from Thames on the back of my iwi and screwed us and everyone else.
Todd Nialls article sets the scene.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-government/130059974/auckland-council-reviews-conflicts-of-interest-claim-at-property-arm-eke-panuku
Good fuckn job!
Here’s a link to the full nbr article.
https://thethreadtimes.com/council-calls-in-pwc-to-review-eke-panuku-deals
Housing select committee puts down petition for enabling tiny houses. Perhaps the description sends the wrong message to what passes as brain in housing enabler’s’ heads.
Call them luxury dog kennels,, everyone loves dogs, though people are out of fashion. Is there a NZ RSPCA for ensuring decent human conditions?
(I seem to remember that in UK their RSPCA came before a child protection agency. You know that it took some people’s whole live in Britain to raise the conditions that poor people had to put up with. It is criminal that the upper and middle classes of NZ have found excuses to roll back those ground-breaking sacrificial achievements.)
Petition asking for national recognition of ‘tiny homes’ fails
https://www.stuff.co.nz › business › petition-asking-for-na…
1 day ago — A petition to Parliament to have tiny homes recognised as affordable, safe, healthy, durable and permanent accommodation has failed.
Petition · NZ Its Time to Support Tiny Home Dwellers
https://www.change.org › nz-its-time-to-support-tiny-h…
This petition is to help the people be able to live in their tiny homes or mobile homes. Think about the people – your people New Zealand, …
https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl/transport-and-infrastructure/
9 members most Labour and one green Julie Genter
Transport and Infrastructure – New Zealand Parliament Select Committee
https://www.parliament.nz › scl › transport-and-infrastr…
There are currently 9 members on the Transport and Infrastructure committee. Chairperson. MP Name: Halbert, Shanan; Party, Electorate: Labour Party, Northcote.(
Names and Party affiliation and status of 9 members who managed not to advance this petition.
Why isn’t there a select committee for Housing instead of it being an afterthought after roads, bridges, bmajor buildings or whatever????)
Surname, Firstname Party Electorate
Chairperson
Halbert, Shanan
Labour Party
Northcote
Deputy – Chairperson
Julie Anne Genter
Green Party List
Bennett, David
National Party
List Member
Brown, Simeon
National Party
Pakuranga
Member
Eagle, Paul
Labour Party
Rongotai
Member
McDowall, James
ACT Party
List Member
Ngobi, Terisa
Labour Party
Ōtaki Member
Rosewarne, Dan
Labour Party
List Member
White, Helen
Labour Party
List
Did you know this – gobsmacking!
Twenty years ago, in Wellington itself, there were anywhere from 100 to 200 landslides reported a year, and now we’re up to 800 to 1000 landslides a year on average,” says Wolter.
Some of it can be attributed to an increase in reporting, but climatic changes are also to blame.
“What we’re seeing is an increase in extremes, so both an increase in dry days and extreme storms. And these extremes affect how stable the land is around us.”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018861098/slipping-away-can-we-keep-fixing-up-after-landslides
Anyone who knows about it got a comment on a remark I heard – that roads over slip prone land that have metal posts driven in to provide crash barriers, g divided roads, then act as a conduit for rain water flow to saturate the earth underneath? Can then fall away in the gaps between posts and leave just the inside lane with the rest falling down the bank.
I don’t understand what the childcare centre is supposed to have done wrong, or failed to do by this report.
If centres are dealing with children from homes that are not good, safe places for chlldren, they cannot be held accountable for everything that happens to the children, they can’t magically make up for the lack. They can help bring some joy and organised time into the child’s life only. They have to deal with matters as best they can or ask for the child to be withdrawn. Now the centre has to close.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/476061/closure-of-childcare-centre-ordered-following-review-of-dealings-with-murdered-boy
Just been to see film Lancaster. That’s the bomber that my birthfather piloted WW2, came down twice, first all saved, second fatal except for rear gunner, buried France of whatever was left.
The old men talked seriously, remembering hum our, laughs and pain of loss of mates.
I think those of us trying to find a way through today’s flak and battle conditions while not being war, have to stick to human principles and support and commit to the group like the men in the Lancasters.
They said how strange it was, when the Lancasters were introduced,a new plane ready to be flown, with the hopes of being the big British defence and attack ‘vehicle’. The bosses got all the trained men together and said sort yourselves out into crews, talk to each other and find a group that you want to work with. The crews met up and sounded out each other and then went looking for a pilot they liked. They said they formed good teams which stayed together and it worked out well. That approach seemed fairly revolutionary to me.
I think now that thinking perceptive people now have to sort out a group for themselves that has practicality, skill, good thinking, commitment, humour, able to take some cheek from each other. Attitudes to living – loyalty, commitment to a balanced lifestyle with personal restraint but flexibility not authoritarianism ruling.
The old systems that we imagined would work and provide a solid platform for us, citizens, are shot to pieces, or so holey they won’t hold. Many people are under the influence of some hegemonic belief that doesn’t respect others for what they are, instead based on style, looks, income, materialistic primarily and ends up either too puritanical or judgmental, or too loose in precepts about living to rely on.