The UN Declaration of Human Rights states in Article 25 that everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for their and their family’s health and well-being including housing. As a signatory to the Universal Declaration and a number of human rights treaties the New Zealand Government is bound to ensure every citizen has the human right to adequate housing
We could start building such communities in Auckland today. Auckland city has thirteen golf courses. Just one of those in Remuera is 41 hectares of land in a prime central city location. It is occupied by a private club for a token rental that amounts to a fee subsidy of around $11,000 a year for each of its 1400 members.
Last weekend, we had our first game of Monopoly with the kids in the Carolan household. It was Oisin’s birthday present, and pretty soon both him and his sister Aoibheann were buying up the streets of the old London version, from his cheap 100 pounds fixer upper of the Angel, Islington, to her well appointed exclusive 400 pounds loft in Mayfair.
The game of vice presidential candidate selection in American Politics is among the single most complex-yet-simple parts of the four yearly quasi-armed-madhouse they call their Presidential election cycle.
One narrative being peddled about America sending a warship to our harbour is that this is some sort of reestablishment of the US alliance with NZ as an equal and not a lapdog.
The Editor of The Spinoff believes Stephen Jennings’ criticism of Key is some type of renaissance moment when free market capitalism sagely nodded to itself and confessed, ‘We’ve all be a bit naughty’.
The banks simply want to be ahead of the vicious backlash about to erupt once the middle classes realise their illusion of wealth is exactly that, an illusion.
THE COINCIDENCE of the Republican National Convention being broadcast alongside the re-make of “Roots” is fortuitous. Alex Hayley’s famous novel laid bare the blood at the root of the American Republic.
We have State Agencies now who are the problem, they are not the solution. People fear WINZ, Housing NZ and CYFS the way they fear cancer.
I am not saying that constructive criticism is not a valuable and important tool when work is not up to standard or when improvement in performance is necessary. However, we are not all the same. We respond to different motivators and triggers.