Vigorous community campaign will fight state house sales in Christchurch
The government’s intention to sell up to 2,500 state houses in Christchurch can expect to be met with a vigorous community campaign to stop the sales.
Author: John Minto
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A high five for the protestors!
The so-called “defence industry” with their war-mongering expo on at the same time is an affront to all of humanity. Their profiteering from human misery, death and destruction makes them arguably the most depraved human beings of all.
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Another savage blow to freedom and privacy
We have been concerned year on year with the extension of powers and resources to our spy agencies the SIS and GCSB. This latest extension of power to spy on New Zealanders is another savage blow to freedom and privacy by an obsessive, intrusive, controlling state.
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P, Ngaruawahia, government indifference and community vigilantes
P is a huge concern in low-income areas and has been for a long time. But it was only when middle-class kids were effected that we saw action.
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High court challenge as government blunders on selling state houses while families live in cars and garages
Last month SHA Inc. filed papers for a judicial review because we can see no way the Minister of State Housing Bill English or Social Housing Minister Paula Bennet can justify the sale in terms of the statutory objectives of the government’s so-called State Housing Reform Programme.
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Minto for Mayor campaign in celebration mode
We didn’t win the mayoralty but we made great progress on the major issue of asset sales and we think we have pushed the incoming council to take a stronger stand on each of the big issues we raised during the campaign.
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It’s official – the Waimakariri River is unswimmable.
This sign is in a Christchurch City Council area close to the mouth of the river near a popular summer swimming spot.
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EXCLUSIVE: The story of Murphy’s Road – a blog every Christchurch resident should read
I leave Christchurch residents to decide if they think this is corporate fraud, sloppy council oversight, greed, sharp business practice, conflict of interest, immoral, unethical, outrageous or a mixture of these.
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CHRISTCHURCH PRESS MAYORAL DEBATE 20TH SEPTEMBER 2016 CARDBOARD CATHEDRAL
I’m John Minto and I’m standing as the Keep Our Assets Canterbury candidate for the Christchurch mayoralty.
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EXCLUSIVE: Corruption in Christchurch – Do you have a question for Gerry Brownlee?
Last week Greater Christchurch Regeneration Minister Gerry Brownlee sent me a letter in response to a blog I wrote about four of his wealthy constituents getting $595,000 each for land remediation after the September 2010 earthquake when they would have been entitled to only $20,000 each from EQC.