The Christchurch Attack: is the stage set for a continuing domino of death?
Some may balk at these suggestions. I make no apology for making them.
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15 March: Aotearoa’s Day Of Infamy
On a day when our young people succeeded in prodding grownups to take notice of the looming climate change disaster bearing down on us, other “grownups” had more nefarious, murderous thoughts in mind. On a day which should have been positive and filled with idealism and hope, we ended with tragedy and tears.
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Christchurch City Council housing failure a tragedy for low-income families
The real devastating failure of the city rebuild is the plight of low-income families left high and dry by the Christchurch City Council.
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It’s not a “perceived conflict of interest” – it’s corruption
What this situation shows most clearly is the complete lack of public service ethos in these individuals. It is a lack of ethical behaviour which now pervades the senior levels of our public services across the country – both in government and local body organisations.
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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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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.
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If this isn’t corrupt practice, what is?
It’s become a well-accepted fact in Christchurch that wealthier areas of the city received a better deal from government agencies and quicker responses to the disastrous earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 than poorer suburbs.
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No more council sellouts before the election
With just two months before we elect a mayor and councillors it would be a travesty of democracy were the current mayor and council to sign off a new cost-sharing agreement with the government.