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Well well well The Nats are prostituting the country to all comers wanting to work here remotely because they’ll be spending money here and ergo helping the economy. How the infrastructure and environment will cope doesn’t matter to the easy-money pimps too dim to see that such policy adds nothing of substantive or enduring value to New Zealand.
Ooh er Neil Gaiman and women with ‘No’ difficulties?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/538963/author-neil-gaiman-faces-new-sexual-assault-allegations-including-alleged-abuse-of-new-zealand-woman
Pavlovich said within hours of being introduced to Gaiman he had persuaded her to take a bath naked in his outdoor bathtub, before he joined her and performed a sex act against her will while telling her to call him “master”, Vulture reported…
Kendra Stout told Vulture she had been a fan of Gaiman’s work and met him at a book signing when she was 18.
Stout alleged Gaiman raped her three years later when she asked him to stop due to having a painful urine infection.
It is pretty sneaky to agree and then have second thoughts and perhaps join in some legal action – have these women been coerced by other women? Has that become
a new type of witch (wizard) – hunt?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/540017/hundreds-of-new-builds-in-auckland-flood-zones-as-councils-wait-on-planning-reform
This is another way of impoverishing ordinary Kiwis.
Damage recovery will become more difficult as insurance rises and eventually is withheld.
Need rises with lots of immigrants wanting housing, lots of potential residential homes being set aside for Air bnb or rental for whomever, but not for settled people and families needing housing. Demand increases for ordinary people’s housing, and some of those have been relocated because of flooding, coastal erosion. Then there is a grab of farm and horticultural land, and building on flood plains and similarly unsuitable land. (Shades of Brisbane.)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-12/queensland-2011-brisbane-flood-residents-claw-back-house-values/13043086
https://www.deckwood.com.au/pdf_newsletter_05_21/brisbane-flood-house-05-21.pdf
This Oz? design might have relevance – our gummint system seems to have dropped its trousers and all we get is flashing of non-essentials.
https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/community-and-safety/community-safety/disasters-and-emergencies/be-prepared/flooding-in-brisbane/flood-resilient-building-and-flood-building-requirements
https://www.sustainablebrisbane.com.au/how-to-make-your-home-flood-resilient/
Something from NZ – May be worthwhile?
Building after the flood
BRANZ Build https://www.buildmagazine.org.nz PDF
The Flood Re programme was also instigated to facilitate and fund homeowners to build back better, improving property flood resilience by making design changes,.
State advice from Queensland. https://statements.qld.gov.au/statements/97259