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Dear Mr Brash,
In line with the “cultural nuance” current event —
I’d bet you anything that if you had publicly resigned from the PCANZ you’d have a clear head and you could’ve used my image without explicitly asking permission. Your billboard could’ve said —
“Te Ao in politics is problematic.”
As it stands, you’ve probably increased sympathy for the existence of Maori wards. Perhaps that was your secret intention.
“In line with..”
The frustration of parallels!
Please, apply a little slope — you know, like, “Die PCANZ Die.”
National’s “story telling” problem is the campfire in daylight, the fun sucked out of what should be tall tales. The paranoid are supposed to be entertainment in the dark night, not your PM.
Peters could speed us on by resigning NOW. Many would love him for it.
Doesn’t he want to play king maker anymore?
Living conditions down in nz – this situation mouldy bread, will arise. See this helpful vid and site.
https://lovefoodhatewaste.co.nz/is-it-safe-to-eat-mouldy-food/
Parallel Story Time, Sloped —
” AitchW
What I heard was that if we join the mob and recognize Palestine as a state on the condition that Hamas isn’t involved they’ll be elected in few years anyway and we’ll be right back where we started…”
The Ao worshipers* REALLY believe in what they want. This we can work with, SOCIALLY. This is the quickest&smartest (and very Kiwi) way.
I don’t know what ‘Hamas’ is, but my ideas are firm toward New Zealand One People (beautifully cultural, including comfortable minorities) and then never looking back again.
All Us Moderates —
2022-2025 is the beginning of an ancient civilisation even here.
2026 is the vote, proving the Populist Democracy we are presently achieving.
*They are more like nominal adherents. We are on the road to them becoming worshippers — when this truth of their believing comes out on top in their small corner, then we’ll get somewhere. It takes rhetoric. (And fun.)
After going to the Gaza border and seeing aid get turned back, Helen Clark had withering words for NZ | Stuff https://share.google/xC6IZyAELWt8aiDPT
In the grand scheme of little lives, she and her important Elders appear as isolated&unheard as me. Is THIS Equality?
“Is that the format of this blog? We each go to a radio station etc, listen/read and then come back here to write about it? That’s not my definition of a debate.”
(Cassandra)
Well, the defining of my leadership is exclusively with Martyn presently.
Is Natalie&John with Labour? What is it if not a defiling?? Can somebody please insist that they tell me who they represent.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/569684/wellington-social-housing-residents-desperate-measures-during-unbearable-summer-heat
Up to 30oC. Can’t we build better than this! We are nearly back to the standards? of 100 years ago. Aren’t there windows?
[J.] Buchanan has lived at the Newtown Park Apartments for more than a decade, and said she had raised the problem since she moved in.
“I have already whited out my windows, I close the drapes, and the windows are open, yet it still is really, really, really, really hot,” she said.
In April, Buchanan took community housing provider Te Toi Mahana to the Tenancy Tribunal, but lost.
She was seeking compensation for the portable air conditioning unit she had purchased.
The tribunal found while Buchanan’s arguments about overheating had merit, there were “no regulatory or legislative requirements for cooling buildings” – so she could not prove the landlord had breached her tenancy agreement, or tenancy law…
Te Toi Mahana housing services general manager Daniel Tai said it went “above and beyond” for tenants.
“To deal with overheating we provide two primary means of support, either facilitate a transfer to a cooler property, to another home that better suits their needs, or helping secure finance for cooling appliances.”
That involved providing a letter of support if tenants wished to seek help from the Ministry of Social Development.
…Portable air conditioning units were effective but pricey and difficult to use, so they were not a viable long-term solution for public housing tenants, the research said…
Overheating missing from Healthy Homes standards
Otago University senior research fellow Dr Kimberley O’Sullivan, who also worked on the study and leads the public health department’s overheating research, said government regulations forced landlords to ensure homes were not too cold – but there was nothing to stop them being too hot.
It had become more of a problem over the last few summers, she said.
“We haven’t really taken into account how to design for keeping ourselves cool during the summer in our homes.
“This is a space where both policy and research are kind of running to catch up and try and understand what’s happening now, and then think through how we could rapidly make some changes so that our houses can protect us from outdoor temperatures both in winter and in summer.”
Climate change requires changes in our methods and laws, and this landlord has been caught up in the melee as a result of government’s lackadaisical approach. Unfortunately our politicians and the economic device they receive (not advice), are not up to the job of coping with reality rather than their dreamworld of met wants. And we pay planners and advisors exorbitant salaries-perks for their awfully backward directions: change the signposts, goalposts! But that proves to them we can’t do better, haven’t a clue. And so it goes. How low can we go in this advanced civilisation?
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2508/S00176/easier-and-cheaper-repair-no-thanks.htm
Have you caught up with these guys and girls?
Repair Network Aotearoa (RNA)
w: http://www.repairnetworkaotearoa.org.nz
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2508/S00176/easier-and-cheaper-repair-no-thanks.htm
…What is the Right to Repair
The global Right to Repair (RtR) movement emerged to counter the trend of product manufacturers increasingly restricting the repair and the repairability of their products, in pursuit of business models that rely on continual product replacement. …
Sounds very worthy and about time!!
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