Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Steve Barnes,
So here's some visions for a new Christchurch...
Well done, that man
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Novel suggestion for funding rebuilding (h/t Lyndon Hood).
ALCP candidate in the Botany By-Election, Leo Biggs, is calling on the government to legalise cannabis to help fund the re-building of Christchurch, rather than cut Working for Families and interest-free student loans.
Enforcement of the cannabis laws currently costs the taxpayer half a billion dollars a year, with expenses spread between Police, Courts, Probation, Prisons and the Air Force.
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“Cannabis commerce also offers a further $500 million annually in expected in revenue, making cannabis reform a billion dollar a year package,” he concluded.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
squalid jihad
teeworthy
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to NBH,
Ta for the update. That's a disappointing and probably ill-informed decision. It's a complementary data set, not a substitute. The Quality of Life survey is more frequently conducted and gathers more useful information about the whole of a person's life activities rather than a focus shaped by stereotypes about limitation and defect.
Statistics NZ have refused release of post-Census disability survey data at local authority sub-samples. Local bodies including DHBs lack even the most basic demographic data to act on despite their legislated responsiblities to all of their local populations. You'd think decision-makers might be concerned, but no.
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Some light relief. Cameron Slater described by the Herald as a National "party insider". This is the chump who wasn't even allowed inside the hall during their Botany candidate selection meeting. Still, I suppose he's a useful conduit for others to channel their shit through (see, managed a tenuous link).
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to NBH,
Nothing urgent, just curious. Keen to help analyse the data but matching funding to enthusiasm is a persistent challenge.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Eh? We were discussing the concentration of jobs.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to NBH,
The Quality of Life survey is, in an unfortunate coincidence, being conducted at the moment.
I'm out of touch. Is there still a disability sub-sample? I don't think anyone has analysed the 2008 one yet (evidence, you must be kidding) but I did manage to at least lobby to have it collected. Persuading those in charge that disability wasn't a subset of health, not so successful.
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Sounds like the factors used to assess impact might need review - has the response been to areas that were harder hit in *engineering* terms but not necessarily social ones? Was existing resilience and capacity taken into account? Or are cracks in the road treated as a proxy for need?
Meanwhile, Civil Defence national controller John Hamilton has assured residents of the hard-hit eastern suburbs everything possible was being done to help them, but his workers had been prioritising the most earthquake-damaged areas.
He asked for understanding from residents of some less badly hit areas that were not receiving the same amount of aid.
Note story also has Key trying out blaming Christchurch for the New Zealand economy being mismanaged into a double dip recession since September.
Mr Key said the economy last year suffered due to the September quake and he thought the first two quarters of this year would have been positive without the latest disaster.
Another lie in need of savaging by an effective opposition. Or we'll be hearing it over and over this year. Cantabrians deserve better.
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There's also the major cities Quality of Life survey series, but mostly not in map form like the one Emma shared. Direct link for 2008 Christchurch report (pdf, 3.5MB)