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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/511839/tiny-home-compliance-nightmare-comes-to-an-end
After struggling for 16 months and paying over $40,000 to jump through regulatory hoops, Jane Kay has finally achieved her goal of living in a tiny home on her daughter’s Otakiri lifestyle property in the Bay of Plenty.
Kay said it was only with the help of advocacy group Whakatāne Housing Action Reform Enthusiasts (Whare) (smart eh kapai!) that she finally got there…
Tiny houses way to go, sensible zoning that encourages farming land kept for that or horticulture yeh! More places built on appropriate farming land like Guyton’s place in Riverton down south – an orchard and food store that runs itself with judicious care.
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2016/11/29/thriving-23-year-old-permaculture-food-forest-invitation-wildness/ 2016
https://thisnzlife.co.nz/why-growing-a-food-forest-can-be-trickier-than-you-think/
Vid on 23 year old peramaculture project.
youtube 3.11 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEo2m3cbDPY 10yrs ago approx – about Guytons Riverton.
youtube 10mins Tour around the property with Guytons about 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8fnJ6kf8hU
2nd Chapter! about tiny house in Whakatane.
What Kay didn’t realise at the time was that rules around secondary dwellings on properties differed greatly from one district to another, so the advice she had been given was wrong.
A district council compliance officer drove past and, noticing the tiny home, informed her that she would need to have it consented.
“In order to get building consent, I had to engage, first of all, geotech engineers, who took over three months, with great big machinery coming out through the paddocks drilling down to Asia.”…
Doesn’t this indicate how unprepared and ineffective our country’s systems are in coping with our housing needs that central government has itself initiated. Pathetic, stupid and worse, duplicitous.l
And what is the Local Government NZ body able to do about this diversity? Can’t they draw up a draft template that could be critiqued and once agreed, then apply over our country. These administrators have become like sucking insects that draw up our life-blood and leave us weakened and needing assistance to live our ordinary lives that have such potential if we are enabled to take steps further to expand them. Should we work on getting more decentralisation of power from the centre where the periphery (us) seems like a plaything; figures in a ‘snowglobe’?
Talking about those little ‘snowglobes’ About:
At the end of the 19th century the Austrian Erwin Perzy, a producer of surgical instruments, popularised the so-called Schneekugel (snow globe) and got the first patent for it.[citation needed] Originally his goal was to develop an extra bright lightsource for use as a surgical lamp. As he tried to intensify the candlepower of a so-called Schusterkugel (a water-filled flask used to focus light since the Middle Ages) with particles made out of different materials for reflection purpose, the effect reminded him of snowfall.
He then built his first scene globe with a model of the basilica of Mariazell. Because of the great demand for his snow globes, Perzy and his brother Ludwig opened a shop in Vienna, where the production continues until today as a family business exporting throughout the world.[3][4] The material and methods used to make the particles for Perzy globes is a family production secret. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_globe
Some things stand out here; the developed item was dreamt up, them made in Austria, and the family have kept the method secret. (If we had done it, we would have sold it to some big organisation overseas.) Secondly, it came from Austria/Germany from which many notable people have arisen, Mozart (Salzburgian), Hitler etc). Let’s try to develop ourselves like Austria and try to see that disaffected people like Hitler who decided to identify with other dissimilar societies do not triumph.
The human grows like a tree which can be bent in its early years, and then stays like that, or gets gradually bent by the prevailing climate. Let us develop a healthy social climate; we thought we were getting there, but incrementally. Now it must be purposeful and immediate, being enabling and good to our young parents and encourage them in their role of raising capable, informed and well-balanced children. Parents need to decide for themselves how to train their children in the best use of their talents for themselves in society, with some plasticity, but always with kindliness and practicality at the centre. Add commitment to personal standards, and we won’t see Hitlers or Tarrants allowed to smother the good like bindweed does in my garden, also ivy, old man’s beard etc.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/511766/independent-infrastructure-body-will-help-sustain-record-immigration-economist
New Zealand should not be afraid of borrowing and spending more money because the government books are one of the tidiest the world, a senior economist says.
Kiwibank chief economist Jarrod Kerr told Morning Report high net migration was great, but infrastructure was not keeping up…..
New Zealand had an average migration gain of 50,000 a year between 2013 and 2020.
Kerr said a lot more needed to be done to support the inflows of migrants.
“We thought 40 [thousand] was a big number, here we are at 130 [thousand].
“We’re not keeping up. We’re not maintaining the infrastructure that we have, and we’re certainly not building infrastructure that we need for the popular growth that we’ve got.”…
The government should give up its 30 percent debt limits, Kerr said.
“These debt limits, this fear of taking on money to do what we need is not needed, it’s unnecessary, it’s unhelpful.
“We have a government balance sheet which is very tidy, very strong – one of the strongest in the world.”
He said New Zealand was among 10 countries worldwide that had a AAA rating, and the UK and US were not part of it.
“We have the ability to double our debt according to Standard and Poor’s without getting a downgrade, so we can leverage up, we can get money at reasonable rates.”
It was wrong to blame the finances, instead, execution was the problem, he said.
An independent infrastructure body could be a start, he said, with funding that had a long-term objective – “one that’s not mucked around by election cycles”….
Execution may be the only answer!
Housing :
‘A stain on our country’: Kiwibank economist lays into NZ’s ‘ …
OneRoof https://www.oneroof.co.nz › …
Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
28 Tīh 2022 — Housing market expert on what NZ we could learn from Australia. … Jarrod Kerr has lived in a townhouse in Sydney and an apartment in Singapore
The economist who forgot everything he learned
The Spinoff
https://thespinoff.co.nz › …
Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
15 Oke 2019 — “Countries like ourselves have too little debt to start with,” says Kerr, echoing a persistent critique from Keynesian types that Labour and …
Jarrod Kerr is Kiwibank’s newly appointed Chief Economist. Jarrod has a passion for the environment, financial literacy, and everything economics. Although born and schooled in New Zealand, he cut his teeth in US, Swiss, and Australian banks, and has spent his entire career overseas.
Jarrod Kerr Kiwibank Chief Economist – Business Whanganui
Business Whanganui – Chamber of Commerce
https://whanganuichamber.net.nz › 2019/09 › Jarr…
PDF
the top 5 things wrong with the economic world right now
Interest.co.nz https://www.interest.co.nz › …
Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
5 Hūr 2019 — Kiwibank chief economist Jarrod Kerr on why fiscal austerity is our greatest mistake, widening inequality – a problem for everyone, the rise …
I don’t think that he has the answer to our housing problems. A rather narrow view as a result of a chip in the brain or a chip missing. Who knows?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/511876/princess-kate-and-prince-william-s-office-was-once-hailed-as-a-sleek-modern-youthful-machine-what-went-wrong
I think this article says much about the media’s mendacious behaviour hinting at controversy and quoting unnamed sources who claim to know about the Royals. The tone is revealing – there is talk about the young Royals side being like a machine, tending to tech-talk. There is a hint of lack of respect for the King in a vid the young Royals released of about 5 minutes on the anniversary of the Coronation which someone has timed to show there is only 14 seconds on the King. Bitchy I call it and a flagship for the tone of the style of the UK media today.
Recently I was reading about a UK media star and it said that the BBC was started in 1922 – 100 years later it has reached a zenith and then done a Phillips curve.? downwards.
Apparently humans are incapable of steady-state ecosystem with incremental change
Phillips curves are worthy of a study on their own for a start in economics for dummies, which most of us are, even graduates I guess, looking at the results around us.
What does the Phillips curve show the relationship between?
23.1: The Relationship Between Inflation and Unemployment …
The Phillips curve shows the relationship between inflation and unemployment. In the short-run, inflation and unemployment are inversely related; as one quantity increases, the other decreases. In the long-run, there is no trade-off.17 Hūr 2023 (Hur, hur now I am confused.)
23.1: The Relationship Between Inflation and Unemployment
libretexts.org https://socialsci.libretexts.org › Economics_(Boundless)
So we have ‘high’ (subjective) inflation, therefore to bring it down we need more unemployment? Oh Doctor your medicine tastes like strychnine. Where is Sophia Loren for light relief. Oh Goodness Gracious Me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfY1DUocTLA
Bloody good interview. TVNZ should join the ABC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLZIs_CD-jE
Note the interview relates to the eminent Peter Dutton (eminent as in significant, noteworthy, prominent, well known, lofty, total, utter, downright, sheer – all viewed from a negative POV as he is a dire despot, and apparently well-thought of by the right-wing in Oz). And our right wing are desperate to match him. All just ordure blowing in the wind.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018930238/aaron-carter-on-fitness-and-mental-health-you-strap-the-shoes-on-and-you-go-for-a-walk
…Lockdown and advancing age brought up his grief over the death of his mum at 50 – “it still freaks me out that I’m older now than my mum was when she passed” – and his best friend who was murdered in South Africa 25 years ago. Compounded with this were fears for the viability of Total Sport, his sister losing a teen son to suicide and the arrest of teachers at Dilworth, his former high school, for sexual abuse.
“I can’t kind of point to any single thing but it was just kind of layer upon layer upon layer and then I had a marriage separation about nearly two and a half years ago and that right there was a tipping point.”
Looking back, Carter sees what he was enduring was “pretty serious depression”.
“I literally exited from work. I told my people working here that I just wasn’t available. I wasn’t around and I just didn’t work for I don’t even know how long, maybe a year. I spent that time just sitting in my living room.
“It’s so bizarre to me now because then I stopped doing all these things that I love doing like running, mountain biking and playing golf and being in the outdoors. It felt like a bit of suffocation and it was really, really difficult times … but eventually, you sort of break through and you see the blue skies again and yeah, you strap the shoes on and you go for a walk and that’s literally how it started for me walking along the waterfront in Taupō and just getting back into life.
“When I lacked the motivation to get up in the morning and go to work, that was just such a big deal for me. Not having anything to look forward to in the day was just… that was crushing. To be able to get up and go ‘Right, today’s the day, I’m going to do this and I’ve got an opportunity to do these cool things’, it’s everything, you know.”…
The pace of life, and so many happenings that are negative, and about the same unhappy thing that just gets worse. One might feel that it’s too tiresome to try, a waste of time. That will play write into AI fingers, and things then look even worse.
Links: interesting –
https://www.tlu.ee/~rajaleid/montaazh/Hero%27s%20Journey%20Arch.pdf
https://www.stress.org/holmes-rahe-stress-inventory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_and_Rahe_stress_scale
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/07067437720176S217
RATING THE MAGNITUDE OF LIFESTRESS
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511906/woman-sentenced-after-falsely-accusing-men-of-raping-her-at-home-and-in-a-nelson-park
This woman is not representative of all those alleging rape. But wouldn’t it be good if we had some decent residential places where nut cases could be kept so not submitting police to repetitive callouts dealing with off the planet types male and female?
We used to but Labour knew they weren’t run well and tipped up the rubbish bin and emptied out the garbage into the community because they couldn’t be bothered to clean it all up. That was when we were relatively well off. And they thought that was kind, good old community.
Interesting – what is the background to this by Denmark.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/499315/greenland-women-seek-compensation-over-involuntary-birth-control
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/2018930158/new-book-highlights-how-noticing-small-moments-can-enrich-your-life
Something to do to get you out of depression and apathy.
If not down that far, how about taking nocice of the people in the supermarket and saying Hi and comment on the weather to the people in the Supermarket. Don’t know about the bus – I remember standing on someone’s foot in a bus and she didn’t even look up. Cities and travel can kill the souls I think.
CIA officials have admitted that they pay for the racial hatred that media organizations spread against the Chinese people and their government.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-launched-cia-covert-influence-operation-against-china-2024-03-14/
What a hero. A wonderful, good dog and a wonderful patient, clever, informed, committed Department of Conservation person. A good news story with a cute animal – what could be better. (Conservation just not conversation like so many of us when it comes to doing worthwhile things for the good of NZ/AO.)
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511954/argentine-ant-sniffer-dog-averts-potential-disaster-on-matiu-somes-island
I ain’t nothing but a hound-dawg – forgot to put in link to Radionz.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511954/argentine-ant-sniffer-dog-averts-potential-disaster-on-matiu-somes-island
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511964/nz-post-plan-to-replace-postal-workers-with-couriers-will-slow-deliveries-union-says
NZ Post Office? made a good profit last year didn’t it? Why change, take away jobs. They do a good job for not a great carbon footprint and doing the work in an established human way. It is good. Doesn’t add to road vehicle mass. Can we protest and be heard?
This was in 2013 and I hope that Hamilton police are much more effective now and keen to prevent people being attacked, and, in this case, killed.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-could-have-prevented-hammer-death/WLLL7DX5GHYU5JOTP67GG2CWXE/
In morning a deaf mental health patient got away from her place of care and was threatening to kill a woman.
About 10 am a health worker faxed and phoned police about the situation but was unable to get through to the local station.
Just after 11 am she called 111 and spoke to the Police Northern Communications Centre.
This was followed up promptly at 11.13 am and two officers looked for the absent patient and spoke to the threatened woman who was outside advising her to contact them immediately if the patient was seen.
Soon after the police were called by the care centre advising that a neighbour of the threatened woman had the patient with her who was still threatening to kill the woman.
‘A communications dispatcher mistook the information from this call, as a repeat of the information from the first call, and subsequently no officers were dispatched to the neighbour’s address to apprehend the patient.’ (The dispatcher must have been partly deaf or simple, him or herself.)
At 12.19pm the neighbour called police to say the patient had just left her address.
After a few minutes she called again to say she had returned with blood on her face.
Officers arrived to discover that the threatened woman had been attacked and killed in her home with a blood-stained hammer found nearby.
They quickly found the patient and took her into custody.
The IPCA found the police had the information and the ability to prevent the death if they had responded appropriately to the available information.
This is a summary of the case. It shows a blase attitude to the concerns of people, especially women, which resulted in a lackadaisical attitude I think.
I have read that police are not now going to assist with help for mental patients. So this could happen again. More people are under stress now than in previous decades, and breaking down in their ability to cope. It doesn’t seem that we can rely on being well treated by authorities at all times.
Why can’t I get dates on google – it’s all 3 days ago 3 weeks ago 3 years ago or some other number? I want the definite date as an essential part of the information. Just letting off
steam and I may try to go to the right entity for some possible notice of this essential but so often forgotten base in communications. This is not helped by having Maori months either
WTF – why can’t we keep the basic practicalities going. Oh I have forgotten; everything in the world, not just NZ/AO, is supposed to be disrupted as it keeps us on our toes. Like fancy ballerinas!
The rottenness at the core of the British Labour Party on full display
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd1XKWc68hw
A political party stance on the issue of war and peace is generally related to how their stance on the issue of social justice universally. The incoming Starmer Labour Govt. looks to be a government of aggressive austerity at home and brutal pro-Western imperialism abroad.